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- Here in L.A., a Latino with a shaved head can have very bad connotations. It's generally interpreted as gang or prison affiliation. It can get someone shot, jumped, or harassed by the cops or actual gang members. So it's not just white guys. If I saw a white guy in a suit or a tailored outfit with a bald head, the first thing I'd think is 'Kojak'. But if I saw a white guy wearing a flight jacket, camo pants, and knee high doc martens who had a bald head, the very first thing I'd think would be 'nazi'.
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Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,For many many years, blacks were the butt of things such as Minstrel shows, blaxploitation, demeaning caricatures and various other indignities. We Latinos have had to put up with everything from having our 'accents' mocked on down to the Taco Bell dog. This goes back for decades, even centuries. Not to mention centuries of oppression and discrimination. With all these rights minorities have scratched and clawed for, we can get a little hyper-sensitive when faced with ethnic caricature. Yet when I think about it, 'Why do Hispanics drive so slow?' would be a more appropriate title than 'Why are white people greedy and evil?' I think 'Wet Dogs' is appropriate for the nature of the book.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,'All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.' 'None is righteous, not even one'. Read the book of Romans, where these verses can be found. Works (good deeds) in and of themselves cannot save anybody. We believe that it is the atoning sacrifice (crucifixion) and ressurection of Christ that bridges the previously unspannable gap between man and God. This is a hard thing to swallow for the majority of people, but someone who understands what Jesus is all about yet rejects Him nonetheless has rejected God. As for a person who had done much harm in his lifetime... God is their judge. He looks at what is written on their hearts, even if the final chapter is written while on their death beds.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,Most? Most people I know had the concept drilled into them since day one. But there are some who fall under such a categorization. Latinos are by and large working class. People grow up valuing hard manual labor as an ultimate virtue, and they tend to emulate that in their adult lives. Also, it is a manner of money. Many people just cannot afford to send their kids to college, particularly if their kids are C-students. And in the underfunded schools that serve the Latino community, vocational fields have far more emphasis than higher education, which wouldn't be the case in a more affluent area.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,People tend to think that if their parents/ancestors are of a denomination or if their ethnicity is traditionally of said denomination (Mexican, Irish, etc.), then they are automatically of the denomination. Well, being born into a tradition doesn't make someone a Christian, just like being born in a garage doesn't make someone a car. It is a personal committment/decision and requires a lifelong walk. Also, just because someone calls themself a Christian doesn't make them one, just like someone claiming to be a doctor is not one unless they actually are. But I guess that certain denominations will grant anybody designation if all they do is claim it. It's altogether impossible to tell who's devout and who isn't.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,There are negative and so-called positive stereotypes. I'll use stereotypes regarding Latinos as an example. Negative stereotypes would be that we're all drunk, overly macho, violent and lazy who go around womanizing, etc. etc. etc. Positive stereotypes would be that we can all dance Salsa like mad, are accomplished lovers, are skilled in sweet-talking and seduction, and have complete mastery over the Spanish language (I can't speak it for nothing). The negative stereotypes are hurtful, divisive, and cause great anger. The positve stereotypes are amusing at best, thorns in our side at worst. Basically, I would like people to understand our culture at a more in-depth level, yet understand that culture alone cannot by any means wholely define every individual who is considered Latino.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,Covetousness is wanting something someone else has. For instance, if Joe is extremely envious in an unhealthy way of his friend Tom's car, that would be covetousness. However, if Joe became angry at Tom because Tom was obsessed with Joe's car to the point of it destroying the friendship, that is jealousy in terms of what is described in the Old Testament. God was specifically jealous in regards to the Israelites. He had derived them from one couple (Abraham and Sarah), He delivered them from the world's most powerful nation (Egypt), and He provided them with the land of milk and honey (Palestine). All in all, they were His people. He became jealous when His people turned to things such as Baal worship or temple prostitution, or when they just turned away from Him in general.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,I've been to different churches in the barrios of Los Angeles and I do extensive work at mine. A lot of these churches do gang intervention, as does mine, as well as many other kinds of intervention. This is quite a load to bear, and strife comes with the territory. Over the years, we've had to call the cops to get drug dealers hauled out of the parking lot. We've had to jump in between gang brawls that are either happening or about to start. We've had to negotiate with rival gangs who showed up to start trouble. We've had to go to more than a few funerals. The list just goes on and on.Sometimes someone who was raised without being taught respect, or who has some kind of intense personal beef, or who just can't see beyond the gang lifestyle will cause trouble even in God's house. And remember, in many countries churches get raided by secret police and soldiers on a constant basis, with the members being thrown in prison, socially and financially persecuted, or even executed on the spot. Jesus said things like this would happen on a regular basis.
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Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,Think of it not as a sport, but as a "rope opera" - a soap opera for guys. There is always the anticipation of who's going to feud with whom, who's going to doublecross whom, and who's going to sneak behind someone with a metal folding chair. The exact same principle applies to some women's fascination with The Young and the Restless, minus the vulgarity, gratuitous violence, raunchy and bawdy dialogue, and the generally outrageous spectacle. It's low brow entertainment at its finest.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,If a person got all of his information about the outside world from the media, he would think that most Christians are Jerry Fallwell devotees who shoot abortion doctors and burn Harry Potter books, he'd think that all gothic people are fatalistic trenchcoat-wearing potential mass murderers, and he'd think that all vegans/vegetarians are people who go around breaking into laboratories and lobbing tofu bombs at McDonalds' patrons. Basically, the media thrives on sensationalism, and it uses the juciest stereotypes, rumors, and misconceptions to fuel their stories. A person from Kirkland, MO, would get virtually all his information from the media, and then a person from Santa Monica or Berkley, CA, would probably get his info from those that he knows personally.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,Back in the old days, hip hop (a.k.a. rap) was primarily an urban thing. It was brought about and adhered to by black and Latino youth. The thing is, as small youngsters this generation of youths were probably exposed to a lot more Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Diana Ross, James Brown and the Temptations than to Led Zepplin and Aerosmith. With the exception of acts such as Santana, War, Bob Marley, and Jimi Hendrix, they grew up with music that was different from the guitar solos and multi-layered riffs of what was then modern rock and roll.Today, hip hop is one of the biggest genres around. Officially, it has been in existence for over 20 years, ever since Cool Herc was attributed with the invention of it (though it's roots go back to the mid '60s). And today, about 80 percent of its audience are your proverbial "suburban white kids," which explains what is shown on MTV. So this young person you speak of could have very well completely grown up in hip hop and by complete accident not have been exposed to anything else. Ask him if he's ever heard of Cool Herc, Funkmaster Flex, The Furious 5, Grandmaster Flash or the Sugar Hill Gang.
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Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,Back in the first century A.D., Christians faced great persecution from Rome. Back in the very early days the term 'Christian' was nearly synonymous with 'Jew', as Christianity was considered a sect of Judaism, and most of it's adherents were Jews by birth. Rome was a pagan empire, whose soldiers had occupied Israel for nearly 100 years. The Israelites despised Rome, as did the early Christians. Rome was often compared to 'Babylon', and Babylon in biblical language was synonymous with the devil's empire. Many modern Reggae songs use the symbolism of Babylon to represent the oppression they face and the oppressors who bring it about. Since Jews and Christians were persecuted for refusing to honor the Roman set of gods (all over the empire, individual local religions were given clemency if they also payed tribute to the Roman gods), they equated the Roman Empire with the devil's empire. Even when former Pagans began to outnumber the Jewish converts, the stigma continued well into the dark and middle ages, and even to today. I guess that's basically the background of it.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,I would consider the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit to be three aspects (or personalities) of one person (God).User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,Well, I think certain drugs should be legalized, such as weed (even a cop will tell you it's a waste of their time). However, if we just get up and one day and say 'it's legal now, have at it!', it would turn into a social disaster. Young kids can walk into half the liquor stores around and get cigarettes and booze with the right kind of fast-talking. We'd be fools to think they wouldn't be able to get their hands on speed or crack more easily than when it was illegal. Therefore, I think we should tax and regulate like crazy. Make it twice as expensive, three times as hard to get, and so on and so forth. But then honestly, driving the drug cartels out of business would be 10 times trickier than trying to bring down Microsoft.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,Scenes take a very long time to develop. Back in the 70's, the hardcore punk scene (Cro Magnon, Black Flag, etc.) was nothing like it is today (though some would argue it was better back then). Back in the 70s, Rock and Roll was taboo in most Christian circles. The earliest Christian rock was closer to the Osmond Bros. than Led Zepplin, and even those types of acts caught heat from many high ranking church leaders. Christian rock has slowly but surely evolved since then. Today it can be found in every genre. I do agree there are a lot of not-so-good acts out there in the Xian scene. But there are a lot of good ones, too. I could run out of space in this posting trying to list all the ones that I think are genuinely good acts. They just don't get much press, as the majority of Xian youth are more 'Backstreet Boys' than 'Radiohead', if you know what I mean.User Detail :
Name : Dan, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : na, Race : Chicano, Religion : Pentecostal Christian, Age : 21, City : Los Angeles area, State : CA Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Social class : Lower middle class,
