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My Lutheran parents want to be cremated. I intend to honor their wishes despite my own personal beliefs.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,In my city I have found black/white relations to be MUCH better since the election of Obama. Mind you, I live in a very liberal place, but I noticed by the day after the election that blacks returned my smiles when perhaps in the past they hadn’t. I’m “white” btw. I don’t know Jacksonville but perhaps this historic election has had the opposite effect there.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,One suspects you must also see whites with greasy hair. When people live in crowded conditions and don’t have the kinds of jobs that demand a neat appearance, they often don’t make it a priority. I work with many black people who spend a lot of time and money on their hair and they all look great. Keeping braids (or straightening for that matter) takes a lot more energy than simply washing one’s hair. Those without the disposable income to visit the salon twice a month sometimes have trouble maintaining the look.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Or a Dalit shopkeeper? The supposedly outlawed caste system in India has much to do with the attitudes amongst Indian immigrants. However, the Indian upper castes that produce engineers and physicians DO have the right to think they’re smarter than us. The average American high school graduate reads at about a sixth grade level. Upper caste Indians ARE better educated.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,The response would likely be tempered by class and geography. Educated urban parents would probably be more accepting than rurals with little schooling. This is certainly true in the U.S. and one would assume Australia as well.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Have you ever met Christians who eat shellfish or wear clothing made of blended fibers? It’s odd that some people cleave to the single line in Leviticus that may or may not condemn homosexuality (depending on which translation you’re reading), while happily ignoring so many of the other restrictions listed in the Bible. Gay Christians believe God made them as they are. Who are we, as heterosexuals, to deprive them the religious crutch they seem to need?
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,I have never noticed bad driving as being more prevalent amongst blacks. In my town it’s young Latino males perpetrating much of the traffic nonsense (a lot of hit and runs of late). However, I have noticed a certain segment of the African-American populace who aren’t very good pedestrians. They seem to walk intentionally slowly through crosswalks, giving the stopped drivers stinkeye the whole way and forcing people to miss lights because they are essentially jaywalking throughout the duration of the green light. Like most things, I only notice this is poorer neighborhoods. Blacks in Westwood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills don’t do this.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,In my school district kids are being taught that but for the European invasion of North and South America, those continents would be living in perfect communal unity without poverty or racial conflict. The “Anglo” minority in the Los Angeles Unified School District is routinely picked out for derision and harassment. One reason why most “white” parents are forced to fund private school educations for their children. Sadly, as whites are becoming less racist, other races are becoming more so. Soon it will be like the 1920’s all over again, with the white minority being pushed to the back of the bus. Diversity only improves a culture when all the players are interested in getting along.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Reagan DID inherit from Carter the debt Kennedy and Johnson ran up funding the Vietnam War, HOWEVER… Reagan’s great boom era was financed by borrowing us into the hole. Most independent thinkers (i.e. not members of either of the major political parties in the U.S.), are now more realistic about the Reagan years. Reagan set into motion the undermining of banking regulations that landed us where we are now. And Clinton helped the process along. No president is perfect and party politics have destroyed the country.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Has it ever occurred to you that it’s a lack of education and not geography that’s been holding you back? Night courses at a college might improve your bottom line to where you have more options in life.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Don’t you think? Wealthier southerners are more often portrayed as eccentrics or politicians than rednecks. Poor folks in every part of the country seem game for ridicule. Do you really think everyone in the northern Midwest speaks like the characters in the move Fargo? No one on the coasts believes Bill Clinton, Al Gore or Ted Turner are racist rubes. But we do remember that the South just forty years ago was a place where volunteers from the North were murdered for having the nerve to try to register black voters. Try Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil to get a different filmic take on the South.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,But, a system like the NHS wouldn’t work here. The population is too large, too sick (obesity related problems) and too used to living drugged out (anti-depressants, Viagra, et al…) to ever be happy with what true socialized medicine would look like. There are certain state programs that work well but wouldn’t work in all states. Many states here have very large populations of undocumented peoples who take from the health and school systems but don’t pay into them. In my state that very factor alone would leave an NHS style system underfunded in terms of how many people would be using its services. The only thing we can do now is to expand certain existing programs to cover more people. But unless we crack down on the fraud and start focusing services toward people who are actually entitled to them, we will never solve this crisis.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Iranians living in the U.S. preferred to be called Persian. They WILL correct you, trust me.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Given that you’re 18 and probably talking about a boyfriend rather than a husband, you might simply be wanting to talk about things he doesn’t find important. Once you’re married, with a mortgage, kids, finances to discuss, etc., you will find that men are completely capable of discussing the things that matter. Shopping and handbags…not so much.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Because if the woman of the house happens to be using the bathroom at night, and can’t see the disposition of the toilet seat, she is likely to fall into the bowl. A far greater irritation than simply having to put the seat down when you’re finished peeing.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,
