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The whole pale is more beautiful thing in Asian cultures seems to be waning. According to NPR there are even tanning salons turning up in China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia. You might examine WHY you’re more attracted to pale skin. Is it your social conditioning? I’m pale as the driven snow but very attracted to swarthy Mediterranean guys. Am I racist because I don’t find pale skin attractive?
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,I know many college educated middle and upper middle class blacks and Latinos. However I also live in a city that has a large population of poor blacks and Latinos. While there may be a cultural element, ( i.e. rural Mexicans who tend to encourage their sons to drop out of high school and go to work at menial jobs), it has more to do with mindset than race. It is said that Asians tend to value education, but there are also plenty of Asian-Americans whose parents stress proximity to family over actual job success. Pretty much any culture where kids are expected to stay in the same neighborhood as their parents will not be as successful as those where people are free to pursue opportunities where ever they exist. But it’s not always racial. There’s a big difference between my American-born Latino mayor with his law degree and a farmer from Oaxaca who might not care if his children can read and write. And yet, statisticians would put them both in the same racial category.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Young metros who go to clubs might desire a particular look but that is not ubiquitous to all gay men. Most of my gay friends are just average looking. They say there’s someone for everyone. Just try not to obsess over your appearance. That kind of vain insecurity is unappealing to all stripes of sexual orientation.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Restaurants would lose so much business by jacking their prices up another 15% that many people would stop going in. The restaurant business is already one of the lowest profit margin fields to go into, the reason so many of them fail. Of course they try to wring the maximum amount of work out of you for the smallest wage. Plus in Texas you’re probably having to compete with undocumented people willing to work for far less than you because they don’t have to pay taxes on that income.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Other than a few Neo-Con whack jobs who want exploitable labor, who are you talking about? I have never met anyone who wants to “keep the poor peoples poor”. I think you have a chip on your shoulder.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Probably about as many as New Zealanders who thought they were voting for Francis Scott Key instead of John Key. Your very question informs the reader as to what dullards you think Americans are. Thanks a lot.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,I live in a minority white city and have been called “white bitch”, “puta”, “anglo whore” and many other things by the Latino majority here.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,As you are living in Chicago you are as informed on this subject as any other random American. Ask yourself. Your question would make so much more sense if you weren’t actually living in the U.S.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Unless you’re talking about Downs’ Syndrome people, who look as they do owing to an extra chromosome, the better question might be ‘why do parents pay to correct the overbites of non-retarded children and not retarded children?’. Often mental retardation is due to some other condition that might contribute to the appearance you describe. Why aren’t they all in supervised facilities? I don’t know. Do YOU want to pay for that when there are so many mainstreamed developmentally disabled people who do just fine in life, thank you.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,I think you’ll find that Protestants refer to her as “Mary, mother of Jesus”. The Catholic Church’s insistence on revering her more for her virginity than her parenting skills is telling as to their respect for women in general.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Wow, I even live in a neighborhood where latino gangs kill black people for sport and I’ve never noticed the behavior you describe. Even here, where blacks have every reason to believe they might be shot at, I’ve never seen a black driver slumped down in the driver’s seat.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,1. The United States is responsible for all the poverty south of our border. 2. Much of the south used to belong to Mexico so they’re entitled to take it back by whatever means necessary. 3. Since U.S. employers are willing to drive down wages by hiring them, they have created “jobs Americans won’t do”. None of this makes any sense to me either. Be grateful you don’t live in a state where the legislators are complicit in the drive to turn the U.S. into a Third World country.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Street sweepers are ubiquitous, regardless of the income of the neighborhood. Taxpayers pay for them. Our problem is the mass exodus into the city of people who formerly lived in foreign shanty towns. They must be broken of the habit of just tossing their garbage, including toxins and dead animals, into the alleys. The city simply can’t keep up with the trash.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Sadly we have become a society where employers demand 24/7 access to their staffs, parenting minor children has become nearly impossible (decline of public schools, etc.) and leisure time for most of us has diminished to almost zero. The ability to assure an anxious boss that you’re working from home on Sunday without actually having to pick up the phone is a godsend for some of us. Texting back and forth between parents stuck in meetings and traffic in order to make sure someone’s picking up the kids is also a useful tool. That is not to say it should take the place of face to face contact with those you wish to have real relationships with. It is difficult to judge whether technology has hastened the pace of the craziness or simply made it slightly more bearable.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Unless you consider the Wii a piece of gym equipment. Schools cut Phys Ed long, long ago and most parents, if they work out at all, do it on a treadmill instead of in the park with the whole family. Also, people have gotten incredibly ignorant about food. Most don’t read labels or have any idea of what’s good for them.
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Name : Dot, Gender : Female, Age : none, City : L.A., State : CA, Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,
