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I don’t disagree that some black people may be afraid of dogs. I loooooooooove dogs. I’m black. Just count it as strange about the ones you know. Can’t generalize. It may have something to do with exposure. Having a dog is a big luxury that many people’s parents didn’t have (unless they lived in rural areas where dogs weren’t sold in stores…just lived around neighborhoods) so people’s parents didn’t raise their kids to think of having a dog as a pet as normal. I don’t know. Just a thought.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Isn’t y? about asking questions you were embarassed to ask other places? Thanks for making Lisa embarassed here too. Sure I laughed at her apparent ignorance (and was disappointed that she got so far in life thinking such nonsense) but just tell her she’s wrong and move on. You weren’t a genius at 16 either.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Do you sister. Do what you feel. People are allowed they’re own prejudices. It’s when you try to put them on someone else that the problem occurs, I think. I say do you, but be careful if your future children want to date outside their heritage that you’re accepting.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,From a different perspective (that of a teacher) you might want to think not about others’ ability to think beyond stereotypes, but what have they been exposed to? You are privileged. You’ve had opportunities and exposure to things others haven’t. Take that into consideration when thinking about why those people who think you’re wierd are so ignorant.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Many people aren’t exposed to differences in people from Spanish-speaking cultures. This country’s education system isn’t really gung-ho about including people of color in their curriculum, whether it’s talking about American Black people beyond slavery or darker skinned people anywhere else in the world. It’s just ignorance, like assuming all Asian-looking (whatever that is) people are Chinese. A friend from Trinidad got dirty looks after 9-11 because people thought he was from Afghanistan. People are ignorant on so many levels. All we can do is educate.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,If Black people rioted whenever we didn’t get our way we’d probably never stop.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Because I have been in a car on the side of 95 south because stopping at the gas station takes up too much time. The whole idea of ‘making good time’ on road trips is engrained into my psyche now.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Looking at Black American history is a challenge because of how it was systematically destroyed by Native Americans? no. Black people? no. White colonists. Their participation in the slave trade and their methods of continuing slavery robbed black people and the rest of this country of native languages, most customs and any source of history. Don’t act like white people did much alone. Most was on the backs of others. Railroads? Chinese Americans. Much of the country’s economics, black people. And where did White people get space to build this beautiful country? First kill off the Native Americans that lived here first (so if they killed white people first it was because you were trespassing) and then get Black, Asian, and any other (Irish, Italian) people we can oppress to do the building and then claim that they are lazy and we work hard. Get real. Face your guilt about being part of such a heritage and move on. Holding on to lies breeds ignorance.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Why don’t you think about why someone would ask such a question before you dismiss it? I totally understand the question and would like to know the answer (not that there is one magical answer).
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,This whole idea of not telling people what you think is wrong with them is very Western, very American. In other countries it’s normal to tell people. People in the US who do it may just be a cultural residue from back when we were in Africa. More likely it’s because when you are on the bottom you feel you have nothing to lose and so you are freer to do what you feel.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I’ve seen it here in Maryland and I dated a Korean-White guy for a long time.
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Name : Pat Rice, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 21, City : College Park, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/ student, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
