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Geographical specialization has made it pretty impossible to pursue certain careers unless you live in specific cities. Unless you’re willing to move, you might want to find out what’s available in your town.

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I know someone who directed porn films. He had to quit because it made sex too gross for him. Perhaps there’s a correlation to your question.

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Ronald Reagan was pretty honest about his reasons for beginning to unravel the public school system in this country during his presidency. An educated middle class is more difficult to keep pacified than an under-educated “working” class. It’s no coincidence that Bush W. has spent the last 8 years trying to keep salaries low and education unattainable. The more you know, the more dangerous you are…

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And if it’s NOT a Christian school, you should have hired an attorney immediately. Religion has no place in public school. PERIOD. If you didn’t raise a fuss, go to the principal, demand the teacher’s firing, etc., you are complicit in this teacher victimizing the next kid. What you describe is criminal.

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Even in more enlightened parts of the world people still cleave to their ancient, ingrained tribal preferences. Be it race, religion, or as of late ideology and political affiliation, people are always looking for reasons to separate themselves from others. I guess they want to feel special. Our species will likely not evolve until interbreeding has made us all light brown Atheists.

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Americans are expected to pay out of pocket in order to support corporate interests. From having to tip underpaid restaurant staffers to having to pay for schools that are largely unusable. Hiring cheap labor helps the bottom line for large employers but is destroying the middle class as they’re expected to take up the slack on everything from medicaid to infrastructure repair.

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As a government employee you are representing a far too often bogged down bureaucracy that seems to force citizens to jump through hoops for no good reason. It’s not that all Americans can’t take ‘no’ for an answer, it’s that you see only the most angry end of society because you are likely the messenger for an ineffective agency. I bet in your personal life you don’t find people so disagreeable. Most of us couldn’t hack facing the public as the representative of a messed up federal office of any kind.

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Everyday people are those who have to work for a working-to-middle-to-upper-middle class living, regardless of where they live and what they do. Normal people on both coasts have been slammed unmercifully by agitators like Sarah Palin who seem to want to divide the country into some red/blue/urban/rural rift. Working is working and financial insecurity is universal whether you’re a plumber, an actor or a farmer. We’re ALL everyday people (unless you’re Warren Buffet or Paris Hilton).

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Diversity used to mean the freedom to practice your own culture in the privacy of your own home without harassment. Now it has come to mean the chance to “get even” with those you perceive to represent the traditional power structure (i.e. white, Anglophone Protestants). People get freaked because some minority groups spew some pretty violent rhetoric.

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Breeding is instinctive but as American capitalist culture makes it more and more difficult to have children, people are having to opt for survival over parenthood. We are a nation where it takes two incomes just to live, where only federal employees get mandated maternity leave, sick days, vacation, etc. Female employees in the private sector are routinely punished with lack of advancement for getting pregnant, if they even get to keep their jobs at all. It’s no wonder the US birthrate is falling amongst all but those willing to plunge themselves into abject poverty in order to have kids.

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I can’t imagine that in Texas this is your life experience. Here in Los Angeles where the majority Latino population treats everyone else like dirt, there are plenty of people who have issues with Latinos. Statistically our gang and crime problem is predominantly Latino (and mostly illegal alien) in nature. We are far more fearful of young Latino men than blacks.

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Our national leaders seem to have made the choice that English should be phased out as our lingua franca. I can see no other logic to the tower of babel in which I live where no two people seem to speak the same language. I think the voting materials in our recent election came in about 100 different languages. I wonder if any other nation would do the same for me if I decided to move there and refuse to learn the local language. It’s unsustainable, period.

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My father was an athlete who left sports to become a public school teacher. He never begrudged the salaries of pro athletes because, as he says, anyone with the commitment to do it can become a teacher but there’s only one Kobe Bryant. Re: Other cultures, take a look at what Bollywood stars earn in a country where millions are literally starving. This is not just an American problem.

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I too am descended from whites that weren’t even here during slavery. However, some blacks perceive that simply being white has enabled us to gain better jobs, housing, education, etc. Ergo the attitude. Interestingly, in my region, Southern California, blacks and whites mostly get along okay but both races are treated as you describe above by the Latino majority in our city.

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My in-laws are Sephardic and from an Arab country where they were purged in the 70’s and made to leave with nothing. They are neither wealthy nor educated and behave with the victim mentality that you describe as being rampant amongst African-Americans. So, not all Jews have dealt to well with persecution. Hopefully with time all persecuted peoples will be able to raise themselves up as the Ashkenazi have.

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