reader79
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Post by reader79 on Dec 5, 2013 9:34:59 GMT -5
I live in NYC (Queens,) have been here my whole life. My neighborhood is mostly African-American and Hispanic, but when you head towards the West End it is almost all Caucasian - Irish and Italian usually. I went to elementary and middle school locally, and there were only a few white children. When I started going to high school in Manhattan I met a ton of other ethnicities. The school was 50% Asian, around 40% white, and 10% 'Other.' Whoever I didn't meet at school, I met on the A train.
One of my grandmothers is German, but you wouldn't know it by looking at me. I am mostly black, with both of my grandfathers families originating in the West Indies (and Africa before that of course.) My boss is gay, and has a Chinese husband and two mixed race adopted children. There are over a dozen different nationalities represented on the floor I work on alone.
I don't have a manicurist, but most of the nail salons in my area are run by Koreans, and the beauticians are Dominican.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 10:16:25 GMT -5
I always get a kick out of female anarchists. Either they're incredibly naïve or just so comfy in the safety cocoon provided by society that they have no idea how horrifically awful life would be for women if there really was anarchy.
What idiot says, "Yup. A place with no rules and no structure? And I'm going to be the physically weakest person there? A society where I'm likely to be treated as a slave or chattel? Sounds fantastic - sign me up!"
The liberals are going to blast you for that! We aren't allowed to say that women are weaker than men...women can do anything men can do, even something physical. Or at least that is what I've been told on this board Some women can! For example, this one:
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 5, 2013 10:22:20 GMT -5
Even the native Americans aren't native to this country.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 10:24:02 GMT -5
I'm very fit for a woman. I run, do pushups, etc. I did well in the MMA/Boxing workouts. But I'm also 5'3" and female. It's not discrimination, it's math and physiology. I may be the strongest woman in the room, but that still leaves me weaker than 80% of the guys.
The only people who might possibly live a better life under anarchy are male, large, fit, intelligent, have good political savvy and no moral compass. Under anarchy, a person like that would probably do well. For the rest of the population, anarchy would expose them to horrors that they cannot possibly imagine because their sheltered life does not allow them to conceive of it.
I've said that and still got lambasted for it....I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out that not all women realize that most men are stronger than most women. How about her:
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Dec 5, 2013 10:25:30 GMT -5
Ewww, she doesn't even look good. Men that look like that don't look good either, to me. Freaky.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2013 10:27:05 GMT -5
But she can probably take care of herself in an apocalypse! In regards to the OP: I live in the same geographic area and I have a similar experience.
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GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Dec 5, 2013 10:29:00 GMT -5
I swear the second one is photoshopped -- a woman's head on a male body (yup, I know the private area isn't "sufficient" for a male but that's what steroids will do to guys).
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Dec 5, 2013 10:34:14 GMT -5
Fairly white bread here except when I'm at work. I come into contact mostly with people from China and various parts of India. I do know there are many more places represented around campus, I just don't interact with them. The first lab I worked in my boss was German, the postdoc was Bangladeshi and the other tech was Chinese. My boss and I used to joke I was the token native English speaker and he hired me so I could translate everyon'e bad English.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Dec 5, 2013 10:40:31 GMT -5
I live in mayonnaise world. There are Indian doctors recruited to work at the hospital, but that's about it.
I do live near a big enough town there is a little bit of diversity, just not much in my actual life. I work with a bunch of white guys. My good friend from church is married to a man from Senegal and her kids are the only other kids at our church besides mine. My son's best friend at preschool are the only two biracial kids in his class.
That said, I'm trying to decide who to invite to DS's birthday party next month and I want to invite the neighbors and our friends from church, but my neighbor is such a bigot that I'm not sure I want him in the same room with our friends from church. Maybe it would just be his wife bringing the kids and he wouldn't be able to come.
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Post by sheilaincali on Dec 5, 2013 11:47:14 GMT -5
When we lived in California is was all about diversity. My business partner was Black and a JW, our employees were all Hispanic. DS' closest friends were Hispanic, Muslim, and African- plus one other white kid. DS was one of 2 white kids in his class. And most of our friends were gay.
Now we live back in Minnesota- land of not much diversity. All of my co-workers are white, all of DH's co-workers are white (one is deaf if that makes a difference). All of our close friends happen to be white- except for one Indian guy.
It's not that we've sought out white people to hang out with it's just the way it worked out. When I was in High School we had two adopted Korean girls, twins from Vietnam and one Mexican kid in my graduating class of 270. Now there is more diversity in DS' school then there was in my day. DS' hangs out with the kids that do Knowledge Bowl and Robotics with him.
Mayonnaise world- that would be a good description for where I live in Minnesota. The University recruits a lot of international students but most don't stay here after they graduate.
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