Cultures & Groups - 23 July 2007

Alright, I've had it with different races, but I'm not racist at whatsoever; the majority of my friends are not white, but I am. How is it that every other ethnicity aside from caucasions can get away with racial slurs, yet, white people cannot? I am called unlimited names by my friends, yet, I can't fire back with anything because they "take offense to it", well so the **** do I!!! Caucasions have become the minority, and I feel we have a right, not to lash out, but the right to be able to make jokes now. This is not fair anymore, what do you think? And I'm not talking about dropping the N bomb or calling someone a "tomato picker", or any other slurs (regardless if they do it to us, that's not the question, I'm talking about joking with friends).

2007-07-23 13:54:43 · 13 answers · asked by youdontneedtoknowme 5 in Other - Cultures & Groups

I want to tell my best friend of eleven years that I am gay. But, she can be kind of close minded about certain things, like homosexuality. This is the only secret I have ever kept from her and it is killing me but, I'm afraid to tell her. What if she won't be my friend any more? Do you think I should tell her and risk it? or keep it a secret?

2007-07-23 13:47:13 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Iv been acussed of acting white just for spelling correctly. The other day i was in a video chatroom on stickam for black people, and everyone was acting like a stereotypical ngga, they all B talkin like dis, one girl even took of her shirt to show off he rack and her wig fell off, noone would talk to me because they thought i was white because i wasnt talking like them and none of the females would even give me the time of day because i didnt talk ghetto. The black people on this site dont talk act like that, you guys should go to the stickam chatroom and clean it up they are making us look bad.

2007-07-23 13:46:20 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

Well guess what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am mia long hahahahahaha
I had this profile for like 2 years or more then that and the mia long profile I just had that for a week now. I also have 2 more but yahoo staff banned those bc I was asking questions about why the kkk members always hating on us blacks but not latina's, asians and etc. THANK YOU VERY MUCH STUPID GIRL

2007-07-23 13:40:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

It seems self proclaimed activists are so busy expressing the difference of opposing issues that all I see is divisiveness to the point that our nation is polarized to extremes.
Is there any way to discuss issues without rhetorical spins?
Are there any gay sites out there that don't just parrot the same old false rhetoric? Are there gay groups that DON'T protray religion as ignorant and backwards?
Are there any religious groups that engage rather than demonize LGBTs?
Or is it all just mudslinging and spin doctors?

2007-07-23 13:34:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-07-23 13:33:31 · 13 answers · asked by Nicholais S 6 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-23 13:33:08 · 64 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I am currently doing my pre-med (studying to be a trauma doctor) and Im gay, how would you feel if you knew your doctor was gay. Especially if you are a male.

2007-07-23 13:18:36 · 15 answers · asked by evansmd911 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I have heard there was a secret society within sion which controled everyhting, does anyone know ots name?

2007-07-23 13:13:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

For example: Mexico and Spain
United states and britian

Do you understand where is this going?

2007-07-23 12:44:34 · 6 answers · asked by ? 4 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Gay taxpayers pay the same State and Federal taxes as a single heterosexual taxpayer, but we do not have the same rights or get the same benefits. Since we are not allowed to marry, we should get a Federal tax credit and a State tax credit in each State which does not allow us to marry. Where we cannot adopt, we should get a State tax credit. Since we cannot serve our country in the military, we should get a Federal tax credit. I'm sure we can all think of other examples. If gay American taxpayers don't have the same rights and benefits as heterosexuals, we should not be required to pay the same taxes. Once we receive equality under the law, we should also have equality under the tax code.

2007-07-23 12:42:59 · 13 answers · asked by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-07-23 12:27:09 · 8 answers · asked by jay d 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

which role do you prefer and why?

2007-07-23 12:20:36 · 27 answers · asked by jacked up 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

With the divorce rate so high between opposite sex marriages why would it matter?

2007-07-23 12:11:43 · 15 answers · asked by whata waste 7 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

I am not attracted to men. I am attracted to women, but only have eyes for my wife. And I woke up very happy this morning. Am I gay?

2007-07-23 11:53:06 · 18 answers · asked by cave man 6 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

California has got to be the most expensive place to live, yet there are thousands of imigrants that flock to the region. Is it because the weather, or work, what?

2007-07-23 11:42:49 · 21 answers · asked by OzarkOasis 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

2007-07-23 11:29:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

i know what my mom side is but my dad side mite be either Russian or Chechen how can you tell wicth one?

2007-07-23 11:15:56 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-23 10:46:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups

How crazy is this girl?

2007-07-23 10:01:33 · 21 answers · asked by Mat P 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Jewish Punk
Though few people would associate punk rock with Judaism, the punk movement was created by Jews from Brooklyn and Queens.
By Saul Austerlitz

Is punk Jewish? At first glance, what music could be less (stereotypically) Jewish? Punk rock, in its classic, Sex Pistols-and-Ramones form, was all about simplicity, rebelliousness, anti-intellectualism, and shock value. Its foremost practitioners kitted themselves out in matching swastikas or dressed like a white-ethnic biker gang straight out of "The Wild One," but it was essential to the project of punk that its musicians appear brutish, Neanderthal, evil--anything but bookish, or well-spoken, or worst of all, nice.

And yet, as Steven Lee Beeber documents in his book "The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's," New York punk was primarily a movement led by Jewish boys (and a few girls) from solidly middle-class families, born and raised in the outer boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn but drawn to Manhattan's club scene like a moth to a flame. The sons and daughters of shopowners and accountants rebelling against their parents' comfortable but too-confined existences--what could be more familiarly, soothingly American? But what is the significance of the Jewish angle, if there is one at all?

The facts undoubtedly bear out a significant over-representation of Jews in the first wave of New York punks. Lou Reed, Joey and Tommy Ramone, Suicide's Martin Rev and Alan Vega, Jonathan Richman, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye, Richard Hell, Blondie's Chris Stein, CBGB's founder Hilly Kristal--the list of Jewish punk notables is lengthy, and impressive. According to Beeber, the common thread for many of these Jewish punks was a desire to overturn the stereotype of the feeble, brainy Jew, the yeshiva student or the bespectacled clerk, replacing him with a brawny Jew in closer touch with his inner beast, and intent on shocking society out of its narcotized comfort.

The new punk Jew was inspired in equal parts by the warriors of the Israel Defense Forces, the comic-book superheroes scripted by an earlier generation of Jewish artists, and an instinctive revulsion at the musical excesses of contemporaries. Stripping down to essences after the overblown pompousness of rock in the mid-1970's, punk cut away everything it saw as being unnecessary, including any prior identity. Punk was not merely a musical genre; it was a rebirth, with each newfound punk reborn in the movement, baptized in the flaming guitars and pogoing bass. How could punks be punks, and be Jewish too?

Beeber's book sees punk as a specifically Jewish outgrowth of post-Holocaust awareness--and shame. A new generation of Jewish boys sought to express their horror at the concentration camps by caustically embracing fascist aesthetics and an iconography of raw power. Rather than sink into what they saw as a mire of self-pity and narcissistic victimhood over six million dead, the Jewish punks preferred to rock out with swastikas, pose meaningfully with Nazi flags, and do their utmost to shock the living daylights out of their parents. Seeing the Holocaust as a moment of tragic weakness, the Jewish punks sought to never be weak again.

Or so Beeber says. The punk movement was never quite as uniform as Beeber has it, nor was its Jewish component as explicitly Jewish as he makes it out to be. Key figures like Tommy Ramone preferred to keep their Jewish identity in the shadows, preferring a white-ethnic, outer-boroughs style hilariously dubbed "Juido." Moreover, being an all-embracing, all-encompassing lifestyle more than a mere musical distinction, punk sought to displace Judaism, as it displaced any religious or cultural affiliation. Punk was a calling, a source of meaning, and a religion of its own. To point out that there were many Jewish punks is akin to pointing out that there were many Jewish Communists; while true, it ignores the fact of the newer identity essentially canceling out the older.

The punks kept faith with Judaism less in the ideas they espoused than in the position they took vis-à-vis mainstream society. Having far more in common with their immigrant parents and grandparents than they might have been comfortable, or familiar, with, the Jewish punks simultaneously sought to maintain their status as a people apart, divorced from mainstream culture, while desperately in search of the approval of that very same uncomprehending mass. What, after all, was the significance of the punks' embrace of Nazi culture and other similarly toxic aesthetic motifs, if not an angry response to the seeming inability of the bourgeoisie to grasp the nature of their revolution?

The Jewish punks, like their immigrant forebears, sought to fit in and stand out, to be celebrated and to be ignored. Like their predecessors, the punks also flocked to the dingy, crime-ridden, tenement-dotted city, only in far smaller numbers, and as a lifestyle choice, rather than because there was nowhere else to go. For the punks, the very nature of their beliefs made them a people apart, divorced from society at large, and yet, deep in the marrow of their bones was a clamorous urge to be celebrated, and to be accepted.

How apropos, then, that so many of the New York punks were also Jewish. Punk may not have been Jewish, but its push-and-pull dynamic regarding American culture at large might as well have been.

2007-07-23 09:57:06 · 7 answers · asked by C Deezy McCain 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2007-07-23 09:53:47 · 9 answers · asked by Silly BaBy505 1 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

how did Indians make there knives i would like to know please best answers gets alot of points i think

2007-07-23 09:44:28 · 4 answers · asked by Chef Sparky 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

In the above sntence, does "a double negative" mean "affirmative"?

I am a Japanese. Thank you

2007-07-23 09:32:33 · 2 answers · asked by Taro K 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Arent we all just monkeys?
http://www.glumbert.com/media/monkeys

2007-07-23 09:23:57 · 2 answers · asked by Who Loves Ya Babe 4 in Other - Cultures & Groups

My parents recently visited Malaysia & the people they stayed with had an Indonesian maid. She had decorated a plant outside with empty eggshells. She spoke no english so no one could ask her why.(the owners of the home didn't even know why.) DOes anyone know anything about it? I've tried Googling but haven't found anything.

2007-07-23 09:18:55 · 1 answers · asked by mamabens 3 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Im a single woman 20 years old (and just to state now...i know im only young....but that is not the point!)

Ive been single for over a year now..... and both me and my friends even random people i meet cant understand why!

when I like a girl I complement them alot and treat them and when im in a relationship i buy them gifts just because (but not like expensive gifts at first just maybe the odd rose and night out) but im still single.... ive never raised my voice to a partner, ive never even got angry no matter what....

so why am i still single? so please come on women....how do u like to be treated?? cos the whole treating them like princess just doesnt seem to work! I cant be single any longer im a romantic im about 1 month tops from pulling my hair out as i run along the gay streets screaming! lol!!

And also!! the girls that do like me back.....END UP SHOVING ME IN THE FRIENDZONE! damn i have like a perm membership their! how do i close this membership down? SERIOUSLY!

2007-07-23 09:15:55 · 14 answers · asked by Katie 5 in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

about every couple times i get on this site i run across some form of racism, don't these people have anything better to do?
I thought this was a site where people help each other with real problems and questions, why does it matter what color your skin is, we all bleed the same

2007-07-23 08:59:17 · 19 answers · asked by ADAM K 2 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Who do you think our biggest allies are? What issues are most important to you? What obstacles do we still have to overcome? and How can we overcome them?

2007-07-23 08:54:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

Who will bet that half the racists (all 2 of them with their multiple handles) are actually living in their mom's basement and have created nothing, done nothing, but dream of riding the coat tails of historical figures.

Yay or nay?

2007-07-23 08:54:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Cultures & Groups