Other - Cultures & Groups - December 2006

So I'm back home for Winter break...I'm a senior in college that goes to school in the northeast, but I'm back in the conservative southeast (which is where I'm from)...and I realize more than ever for some reason that I really don't want to be here, maybe because I'm a minority. I feel like my relationship with my mother is really strained, I don't have any close friends, whenever we go out, I feel like people don't want us here, etc. I've grown up here all my life, but I never felt like I could fit in to the whole southern culture thing...it's so not diverse down here, and I feel like we always stick out like a sore thumb wherever we go. I have such low self-esteem...the city I live in is really boring...I'm always angry at my family....wishing I could be someone else so that I could fit in...so people wouldn't just assume I'm this or that bc of my ethnicity. I just feel so out of place and lonely. Anyone ever felt this way?

2006-12-26 07:16:44 · 8 answers · asked by toobland22 1

Just wondering your thoughts. By the way, I am not advocating macho for either sex. It just seems as if a female does it, it is considered good. If a male does it, it is bad. Why?

2006-12-26 07:10:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

i dont know if you people have notist this guy with his stupids "facts" about how white people are better than black and all this rubbish, but its people like him who REALLY annoy me!! >:(
anyone know why people are so racist?

2006-12-26 07:03:04 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it because asian girls make them feel powerful, and are less threatening to their ego?

How do I know that the guy love me for real? Not just they can't find white sexy girl in their countries?

2006-12-26 06:51:53 · 34 answers · asked by ★menta★ 4

2006-12-26 06:21:10 · 15 answers · asked by animekrazy2005 2

To not feel attracted to black girls. Im not a racist but i just dont feel that attraction to black girls, i like blondes, redheads, and latinas.

2006-12-26 06:18:08 · 8 answers · asked by AvO21 3

2006-12-26 06:16:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Besides eating lunch of course

2006-12-26 06:12:09 · 22 answers · asked by Nicole 4

I myself am part of a small minority which has been victimized to Holocaust. Don't get me wrong- I believe our group of people ( the Assyrians)have also been the bad guys committing them as well throughout history. But I wonder why bigger groups haven't. Or maybe Have? It is fair to say Russians have experienced it.?

2006-12-26 05:50:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a very protective big brother..my sister is studying abroad in Italy next semester but is also going all over Europe to travel. Will they disrespect her or think she is easy?

2006-12-26 05:45:48 · 7 answers · asked by jrawls 2

I have seen so much true outright hatred directed at so many groups, based on:
race, religion (or lack of it), sexual orientation, nationality etc.

2006-12-26 05:29:59 · 29 answers · asked by Philip Kiriakis 5

I am a believer that interracial marriages can and do work out. It happens each day. What I also know is that interracial marriages, even today are often viewed with hatred. With that said, this is also more baffling: Interracial marriages between many different people are often viewed with hateful controversy, but in particular, interracial marriages between a black man and a white female are viewed with particular spite and hatred. Why is this?

2006-12-26 05:26:45 · 12 answers · asked by liker_of_minnesota 4

2006-12-26 05:09:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-26 05:03:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

maybe detriot or somewhere in the south

2006-12-26 04:55:34 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Never did it just wondering what all you think?

2006-12-26 04:34:42 · 21 answers · asked by complex1simple 1

The Kentucky Derby, Preakness, or the Belmont Stakes?

2006-12-26 04:07:52 · 13 answers · asked by Princess1988 1

2006-12-26 03:53:46 · 20 answers · asked by Princess1988 1

Peanutbutter asked people to identify the one thing that Canadians could take pride in - and many people responded with the Canadian medical care system.

Interesting that the healthcare system came up so frequently.

In my experience most of the Canadians that I have met abroad have very clearly explained how awful the Canadian medical system was in comparrison to local healthcare and expressed gratitude at being able to use the local system because they "would never have gotten the right treatment in Canada", "would have had to suffer for months before getting the right tests scheduled", "would have died before being able to see a specialist", "would have lost their baby if they hadn't run across the border to get proper care", "are living in because Canadian healthcare sucks", "husband would have died", etc. (note THEIR words, not mine).

I heard this most recently in Spain this year. So what's the real story?

2006-12-26 03:47:59 · 9 answers · asked by Lem 5

I know there are many annoying people who use fowl language and just are downright mean, is this who they are talking about?

2006-12-26 03:41:33 · 6 answers · asked by Starscape 6

Okay this question will probably get removed because it seems that rather than talk about controversial topics everyone would rather complain and get these kinds of questions removed.

I give everyone the benefit of the doubt regardless of race, color, etc… But I know that not everyone does and its not always been like this for America where slavery was legal and women had no rights at one time. But I ask you, is the way to fix discrimination, with reverse discrimination?

2006-12-26 03:38:46 · 8 answers · asked by leseulun 2

2006-12-26 03:35:02 · 15 answers · asked by piglet 1

I'm from Colombia, Southamerica, and I think I'm white (I have really white skin and used to be blonde as I child although I have bright brown hair) and I used to believe that to be white you would have to be a least WHITE and have blue eyes or something like that but I recently move to US and it seems like every one here that is not brown enough to be considered mexican thinks that he/she is white and see themselfs as superior(not all of them). I mean, if you go to Colombia nobody brags about their race or see themselves as white rather hispanic eventhough sometimes they are whiter than a lot of racists americans. In fact, met a kid from florida that was all brown and wouldn't call much attention in southamerica and he turned out to be a racist when I was whiter than him, he actually called me "*******". Anyway, I'm just confused because I've seen a lot of "white supremacist" attitudes from people that I don't think are white.

2006-12-26 03:34:34 · 15 answers · asked by webdude137 1

i just can't see y not it is ok for a guy to dress up as East Indian or as a a woman or a star track guy an if you say something you are closed minded an it is there life an they can live it how they won't tp but it id not ok to go goth or punk the same people say your trying to hard an it is wrong an your neither to old or to young like you should never do it y is it not ok to be goth or punk but every one als can be what they won't to be i don't understand

2006-12-26 03:28:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why dont their leaders do the job to show the young people how its done???

2006-12-26 03:19:16 · 7 answers · asked by Lizzy s 1

what if i said i was going to live white,act white would that be ok?

2006-12-26 03:18:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-26 03:12:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

im really ticklish on my feet who has ticklish feet or where are you ticklish

2006-12-26 03:03:14 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

This was posted as an answer by EvilSpoon:
"The fact of the matter is that WE, the white people of this country, are the CAUSE of the high rate of crime committed by African-Americans. WE are the ones that enslaved them for hundreds of years. WE are the ones that forced them into the bad neighborhoods over the last century. WE are the ones that prevent them from succeeding and getting out of poverty, which is the reason that crimes get committed. WE are the ones that have the vast majority of the power in this country, and WE are the ones that have NOT used this power to help minorities. "

I'm sorry. My ancestors came over on a coffin ship in the middle of the war of emancipation. Few could afford food or clothes, much less a slave. We were given jobs that not even slaves could do because no one cared if we lived or died. Is it right to blame a section of society that had nothing to do with the issue?

2006-12-26 02:58:18 · 16 answers · asked by Krys Tamar 3

Do they mean she has blonde colored hair, or they mean she has blue eyes or is it the both????
Anyhow, I believe a woman who has both blonde hair and blue eyes are the most (( Beautiful )) in the whole world.

2006-12-26 02:49:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous