Basically, everyone has their own opinion. Sure some lesbians or bisexuals think it is offensive. Some think it is great. Some are the actual exotic dancers. I know a good number of women who go to 'gentleman' clubs and get lap dances. Usually, from what I've seen, all the men are turned on by it, so they don't object. The dancer is getting paid by a customer, so they don't object. Any other women in there that isn't an employee, is in there for the same reason as you, so they don't object. I've never seen, or heard of, a women being told 'no, they couldn't buy a lap dance'. In larger cities I'm sure there are specific clubs for lesbians. Reason being, it is a marketable area with potential profit, so someone, somewhere must be trying to make money from it.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Perhaps he has a hard time believing anyone could be allergic to such a common food. Maybe he does not believe that food allergies exist. Having taken care of young children with peanut allergies, I know how frustrating it can be. I had one boy in my school who was so allergic that if another child had peanut butter and got any of the leftover oil on a toy, and the allergic boy touched the toy, he would have to be taken to the hospital at once or he would die. Food allergies can sometimes truly be deadly. Have you tried showing you brother medical books about the problem? I know this is not appealing, but photos of people deceased from such an allergy might just open his eyes. Or take your brother for a visit to the child's doctor for a little chat? It is most important to get the concept drilled into his mind, for if his behavior continues, your little girl's life could be put at a great risk. Disregarding the problem and not only having nuts around, but actually putting them out to spite you or her, is not what I would call a small issue.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Islam is not one place or one country. It is a belief spread across parts of the world. However, the contention that the Taliban is the only Islamic society that condones the practices mentioned is absurd. In fact, there are many countries or areas that do. Lest we forget, there are North African tribes that identify themselves as Islamic and still practice many of those things. They also include something even worse: female genital mutilation. They are a form of Islamic Society, and this mutilation is a violation of any woman's rights. The idea that a woman may not go out without a male has been proven horrible in practice. Women dying because they could not walk down the street to a doctor? They could not purchase food because their male relatives were all off fighting in a war? Choosing to wear a traditional outfit and being forced to die from neglect are two very different things. This does not mean every Islamic person believes in such practices. It indicates that there are still serious problems in pockets of the culture. Unfortunately, an objective view can also conclude such issues exist in a Christian culture or any other. Human rights should be available to every person. But the reality is they're not. Killing does nothing to change that. For every enemy you kill, there is another one born. There will never be an end to that kind of fight, as Israel and Palestine have so sadly demonstrated.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Selene said in her response, 'I believe a person is 'acting white' when they refuse to talk to blacks, have friendships with blacks or date blacks because they don't want to be thought of as being black.' Is that acting white? Or is that a non-white person acting white? Frankly, either way, it sounds like a basic definition of an idiot to me. The problem sounds like it is partly due to a cultural difference between Florida and Colorado. It comes down to the fact that different people brought up in different enviroments act differently.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, The door-to-door missionaries where I live are SO bad that I, among others, have actually bought door stickers to help stop it. They have a person holding a bible with a huge red circle around them and a big red line through the picture. In otherwords.....NO Missionaries! Amazing how many actually still come knock on my door, where they are promply asked to leave or risk facing a loaded gun or police. That is not a joke. I have finally lodged formal complaints against the LDS church in an effort to protect my basic rights. As much as I hate a person calling my home to tell me how much I can save on long distance, I hate someone coming to my home to preach about their beliefs. It is the same kind of rude presumption. I find it so very repulsive that anyone would even DARE assume that they have a clue about what I need in my life. If I have a cure for AIDS,.........I set up a hospital where people can COME and be helped. I do not go to peoples private homes and try to force myself in and make them take the medication. I do not follow their families around, yelling irrlevant quotes at them. I use the medication and cure as my advertisment, and let it call to the people who need it. Anyone who is secure about their beliefs only needs to promote it by their lives and actions, not by trying to stuff a bunch of words down someones throat. I belive without any reservation, that going door-to-door to promote religion should be absolutely illegal.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, I have to admit I've never seen a significant difference concerning races and funerals. Things usually vary according to belief systems. I suspect there just happens to be a large population of certain religions in your area. Just because someone is Irish doesn't mean they will automatically have a 'wake'. However, the majority of Catholic Irish-heritaged people I know do have wakes. So I always tie things together not by race, but by religion.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Colorado and Florida are both in different climates and sub-cultures. The people from these places act differently because they have different lives. Why do people from the south speak with a southern accent? Because that's the culture they were raised in. They would speak French and probably dress differently if they had been raised in Paris. The idea of someone acting 'black' or 'white' is really only an issue in the U.S. We stress our differences much more than people in other countries. We actually tend to resist being a 'melting pot'. A guy named Bob from Nigeria is acting like a guy named Bob from Nigeria. He isn't acting white, or black, or asian, or anything else. Bob is just behaving the way he is.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, It's for the same reason so many are not going into the teaching profession. The salary, and value of those positions are so under-appreciated in the U.S. that it is not an appealing option. I have a few friends who are going into a nurse-related profession, but only in specific positions. Anesthesia, or Private Sector, or some other offshoot, because none of them want to work as 'just' a hospital nurse. They don't see it as a job that has a livable wage, a proper amount of respect, or secure placement. It also doesn't help to have the healthcare system in current dire straights, and the HMO issues affecting a lot of medical facilities.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Restricting this to only the U.S., it is pretty simple. We are a consumer society. We are capitalists. Our entire society is driven by one thing, money. Everything about the U.S. culture is based on consuming and buying and needing more. So those who can obtain more are seen as better than those who cannot.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Among the many reasons for the problem, there is one aspect yet to be mentioned. Lower class children are given far fewer chances to learn than upper class. I was disgusted when I read about the 'poor' area schools in California. They don't have enough books for the students, they cannot give out homework because of the shortage. Some spend large sections of time without using heat or air conditioning. How can anyone expect a student to prosper in a situation like that? They aren't *allowed* to learn, they are literally being held back by the countries economic prejudice. It is much harder to graduate from high school when you have no materials, no proper enviroment, and people assume that since you're poor, then you must be stupid. This following random question represents the sum of the problem. When you have never been given a map to look at, how can anyone expect you to point to where India is located on one?
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, As a student of Cultural Anthropology, the question posed confuses me a bit. Aren't all those things completely intertwined? Custom is created by both religion and language. Religion is a custom that uses language. Language is a custom used to express emotions and ideas. Those emotions and ideas are what lead to religion. Around and around, it all connects together. Costumes, food, building style, and family relations are all part of the customs, and can be part of the religion. Take away one aspect and you are destroying the others. Thus, the most honest answer I can think of is, 'The most important thing to preserving 'their' identity is to preserve their identity.'
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, I live in a very 'closed off' area in the U.S. Almost everyone (except me) is Mormon, blonde, and pale. It is scary, because they truly do not understand anything about the entire issue. I often hear 'Islam' reffered to as a 'place' or 'country'. They think a Hindu and a Muslim actually ARE the same thing. It is a sort of 'willing ignorance'. I was once slapped by a girl when I mentioned that Jesus was born Jewish. She informed me that she had never heard such an disgusting thing in her life, and that Jesus was Mormon. A few days later she apologized, saying her mother explained that Jesus was Jewish before he founded Mormanism. Her family chose ignorance, and had never even mentioned to this 14 year old girl anything about Jesus outside of their religion. This wasn't a young child who would have problems understanding, this was a 14 (almost 15) year old girl I went to school with. Now this is the particular dominant religion in my area, but they certainly aren't the specific problem. The problem is the amount of people that willingly choose ignorance, or the safety of following the herd. After observing the events in reaction to 9/11,...I have come to the sad personal conclusion that many people around my area don't *want* to know the difference between a Hindu and a Muslim. I'm scared that the issue I see here is also very common in other areas of the U.S.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, When visiting San Sebastian, in the Basque region of Spain, I learned very quickly the difference between hot and lazy. AS many have already stated, the cultural history created the myth. When it was afternoon in San Sebastian, it was like walking around on the sun. Naturally, it is impossible to get work done, or do any massive physical labor. So everyone takes a siesta. Then, as it cools down into evening, the work starts again. Instead of stopping at dusk, the work continues late, taking advantage of the cool night. So where an American might work '9-5', in San Sebatian, work might be something like '8am-12pm...4pm-8pm'. Same amount of worktime, just in different styles. AS far as poor countries being in hot areas, it is true that there are many. However, there are also many in every other weather catagory. Russia, former Soviet countries, and Tibet are very far from rich, and are all very far from the equator.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, While the post 'Bunny' offers is definately true, there is something left out. Countries where it is illegal still have a HUGE rate of abortions. However, these are done as 'back alley' abortions, and are not recorded in any official capacity. The number of mothers with medical problems following these types of abortions are the indication of how many take place out of the 'governments' eye. Abortion is as old as sex,....they go hand in hand. We did not invent this concept in this century. It will never go away, not as long as humans have sex. It is something that either happens in a safe place, or happens as a crime, but it happens.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, The idea that every heterosexual marriage includes the roles of 'husband and wife' is an illusion. These 'traditional' roles were mandated by religion or society, but don't exist in an absolute form. According to our modern Christian ideals, a husband, as a male, will take out the garbage and bring home the beef. A wife, as a woman, will bear children, raise them and keep the house. This antique definition describes very few married people I know - of any sexual orientation. Like every relationship, 'roles' are worked out between the two people. Does the husband stay home and raise the kids while the wife works? Does that mean the marriage is wrong for heterosexuals? When you just get over the idea of sexuality and think in basic terms, then the question simply becomes, 'How do two people resolve the kind of relationship they will have?' The obvious answer is, they don't. There is usually no specific choice; it evolves as all relationships evolve.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, 
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