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People around my age are likely blasting their music, whether in the dorm room, the car, their parents’ house. It’s not just the black girls, believe me. I lived in an all-girls dormitory and there were maybe 2 or 3 black girls on my floor; I don’t recall them blasting music, but the other girls did. As to why, perhaps people want to draw attention to themselves or assert their identity. Or they’re just really obsessed with their music.
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Name : N.A., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 19, City : Macomb, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Upper middle class,Last October I went to Paris, and I found the people (clerks, hotel staff, etc.) to be helpful and patient. Maybe you just have to go to the right places! I can imagine though that in a city like Paris with so many American tourists, the people can get annoyed. I’d be annoyed too if foreigners visited my city and expected me to speak their funny language.
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Name : N.A., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 19, City : Macomb, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Upper middle class,When I was a child, I told myself that I would absolutely NOT be a nurse. My mom is a nurse, and I always hated to see the amount of hours she had to be away from home, and how tired she would be when she was at home (no matter if she worked first, second, or third shift). In high school I started working at a hospital, and I saw first-hand how stressed, over-worked, and under-appreciated nurses really are. I noticed that the hospital was almost constantly under-staffed–people were always asked to come in on their days off or to work extra hours. Of course, the employee could tell the supervisor ‘no,’ but few would do that because they wanted the money and favor. The nurses who would work extra were considered better than those who ‘only’ worked the insane amount of hours for which they were already scheduled. Nurses also have to deal with the demands of doctors (who are quite frustrating whether they’re wishy-washy on a patient’s treatment or relentless on ‘their way’ of doing things), and the rules of the hospital’s administration. I also noticed that the lower-level employees get the most difficult tasks and the worst treatment from patients. A nursing assistant is usually the first step towards being an RN; if they’re the ones who have to do the tedious, ‘dirty’ work, that might discourage some potential nurses. Most of the nursing assistants (and quite a few nurses as well) worked more than one job, sometimes at another hospital doing the same thing, or even some other work they could acquire for extra income. These are a few of the ideas I think of when I think of nurses and nursing. I still have a negative view on the profession, but after some time working as a unit secretary and then interning in the ER for EMT-B certification, I respect nursing much more. I would even consider becoming a nurse, if I could not be a police officer (which, curiously, has some of the same elements I didn’t like about my mom’s work).
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Name : N.A., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 19, City : Macomb, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Upper middle class,Niamh, I agree with you 100%, and I’m surprised that no one else has brought up the facts you did. Honestly I’ve always thought all the racial categorizations one finds on forms/applications/surveys are absurd. Like the separating of ‘white Latinos’ from ‘non-white Latinos’–is one any worse or any better than the other? Well, it seems that way when they make those categorizations. Perhaps I’m being ignorant, but when you’re Latino, you’re Latino, and that’s that. Then that proves ‘Latino’ shouldn’t even be considered a race (because it’s not). Anyway, in our case, ‘white’ can mean a huge number of things as you know–Italian isn’t the same as Polish, now is it? And that goes for any of the other ‘racial’ categories society attempts to group people into: black, Pacific Islander, Asian, Arab…All of this is a load of crap, and once I’m involved in politics I’ll make it a goal of mine to get rid of all this nonsense. ‘The bond of my Irish history and ancestry is more important than the color of my skin’–you said it all.
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Name : N.A., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 19, City : Macomb, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Upper middle class,
