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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,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,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,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,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,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,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,This is a question that takes layers and layers of information to even begin to understand. First of all, not all Muslims hate Jewish people. Not all Jewish people hate Muslims. That is the most important thing to comprehend. Second, like most human history, land and resource are part of the base of the problem. Israel and Palestine are perfect examples of that. It becomes not so much about beliefs, but about which group of believers control what valuable thing. Are ‘we’ a Christian country, fighting an Islamic country because they need their souls saved, or because we want their resources? There are drastic differences in the belif systems, but there are also many things alike. Both are monotheistic, both are moral based, and both are absolute. The absolute is the next problem. Anytime anyone thinks they are absolute and right, they begin to push against that which they see as ‘wrong’. Be it the Vatican or Hitler, they both aim to control the thoughts and actions of their followers. Therefor, a radical Jew sees a Muslim as ‘wrong’, just as a radical Muslim sees a Jew as ‘wrong’. I come from a Jewish family, and have no problems with someone of Islamic faith. I have a problem with ‘All Jews are evil money hungery liers’, just as I have a problem with ‘Jews have been through so much, they deserve to get whatever they want’. I am a person, first and foremost. I am not totally defined by my family heritage, nor would I judge anyone else to be.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College,Personally, I have never felt, or heard, adoption reffered to as shameful. To me, it sounds as if this professor has some seriouse issues to work out with a therapist. There might have been a stigma attached in years past, as many unwed mothers had to give their child up for adoption. So adopted children became the children of ‘degenerates’ to some. Unfortunetly, rape and incest are also a common cause for giving a child up for adoption. So some might decide such a person was less ‘validated’ as ‘pure’ then others. But in this day and age, considering everything going on in the world, I cannot understand how anyone could come to such a conclusion.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College,Very easy to answer with one word, genetics. The same way J.Lo got her butt and my brother got blue eyes. That accounts for a massive amount, but certainly not all. There are a myriad of answers to the rest. Medical, emotional, mental, physical? Couch potatoes who never do anything physical, well that’s an easy way to become obese. Loosing the ability to walk or move, that is another way. However, if concentrating on the U.S. society,…which media keeps reporting is the fattest place in ther world, there are more difficult issues. The U.S. diet is also one of the worst. Though we have ample amounts of healthy food, we consume so much suger, so much ‘processed’ food, so much crud, that our bodies are obese. How many people eat at a place like McDonalds at least once a day? Fast food, still mostly based on fat and carbs, is not helpful to the situtation. AS far as my weight, I was born this way. I took after my father, which was very difficult, because my sister took after my mother. At 21 she was a size 1 and wearing childrens clothing (seriousely), where at 17 I was a size 16 and wearing ‘fat’ girl clothing. The depression this and other issues caused me became a sever problem with Manic Depression. I gained over 70 pounds in a two year window, and truly became obese, instead of overweight. Once certain body types gain weight, it is difficult to reverse it. Fat cells remain,…they just shrink. So I have all my obese fat cells still,…they are just a smaller size. Sure I knew I was getting fat, but I had no way to stop it. Emotionally, mentally and physically I was unable to cope with anything in my life, much less that.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College,This is a false perception. Female Genital Mutilation is not a part of the Islamic faith. It is in fact a cultural based practice. There are tribes that identify themselves as Islamic, but mix their own ancient beliefs in with the new. One result of this is FGM. As far as being practiced in the U.S., of course it likely is. Not by Muslims even, but the chance that some person somewhere in the U.S. is doing this is always possible. The statement of it being mandated in Egypt is completely new and unheard of to me. I know of no evidence pertaining to anything of the like. I know of no Egyptian female that has had FGM performed on her. Again, the chance that some Egyptian woman do is very likely. But mandated?
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College,This is a cultural practice and is not guided by religion. I say this because there once was the belief that Islamic people practiced this. While it is true there are some ‘fringe’ groups that identify themselves as Islamic and practice Female Genital Mutilation, it is not a mandated Islamic practice. It can be and usually is, used to control the female as a wife. One idea is that she gets no pleasure from sexual intercourse, and therefor will not cheat on her husband. The torture becomes even worse when she is ripped open by her husband or childbirth. She is then ‘sewn up’ to become small again, and more pleasurable to her husband. There is a famouse model, her name is Warus. She is a survivor of FGM and tells her whole story with complete frankness. The entire story is very compelling. For her, a sharp rock was used to cut. There was no aniseptic used, nor any dulling of sensation in the area. The rock cut off the clit, and she was put in a tent to recover. Infection is very likely, and many complications can arise, as with all medical procedures. There is no reverse or fixing this type of procedure once performed.
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Name : aysha, Gender : F, Age : 27, City : Ammon, State : ID, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College,
