Other - Cultures & Groups - January 2007

they believe they are from a parallel universe and were created prior to Adam...some are eveil and some are Archangel level and some are guardians of humans....sounds a lot like Angels to me...so why do they have to make up something separate?

2007-01-26 22:28:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

and the vegatables were spring greens and carots, she liked the spring greens but hated the carots. Was she being racist against the carots? after all, every other form of discrimniation is deemed racist these days.

2007-01-26 21:52:40 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

why do you suppose we have people with money adopting kids that come from other countries when we have kids here that need families? Is it only for publicity? why is it that people with money only want to help when it comes to another place when if you look we have simalar things here that they could help with? The U.S. has starving people, we have kids to adopt, almost everything you can think of that they do outside of this country they could do here. But they don't. Why is that?

2007-01-26 21:47:05 · 6 answers · asked by ogrething2001 3

2007-01-26 21:36:34 · 19 answers · asked by WILTON NORONHA 2

Ummmm, i'm French, and i dont know what exactly to say at a Funereal......i need help.

2007-01-26 21:26:11 · 7 answers · asked by Keket 1

Why do people in the same ethnic group act all high and mighty when I enter the group area rather than acknowledge me?

2007-01-26 20:58:17 · 15 answers · asked by hotgirl 1

I have read so many posts on racism towards black people and towards white people and it's alittle irritating. No wonder the world is in so much chaos. I am going to clear this up. Slavery was wrong but it ended in January of 1865. I didn't have slaves and none of my living family has either. Other races were enslaved and discriminated against as well, black people can be racist too. We don't have a BET or a UNCF, and don't use the excuse that we have everything else because it's bull.
Now on to white people, get over the caveman mentality, there are alot of good, educated, black people that aren't running rampant killing and raping, ALL races have sick and twisted people. It isn't alright for ANYONE to run around calling others racial slurs and discriminating because of color. I am so sick of all the ignorance that people are displaying. I had to get that off of my chest, God doesnt judge based on color, what gives us the right to?
Now on to white people

2007-01-26 20:42:40 · 9 answers · asked by season_leigh 2

it could be mountains, rivers , waterfalls the ocean and so on i like the ocean but its deadly though

2007-01-26 20:34:09 · 4 answers · asked by spartan 3

I have different meaning here including the definition of redfield and other sources. i'm confused!!! pls help

2007-01-26 20:03:16 · 1 answers · asked by playfayeth 1

is it an insult to say that I am blue blooded and I only date red blooded guys?

2007-01-26 19:49:28 · 6 answers · asked by Vanilla 1

total acceptence of all colour and creed

2007-01-26 19:10:23 · 26 answers · asked by vivek_hawaldar 1

my french friend seems very romantic: pleasant, courteous, genuine...i'm wondering if this is a coincidence or if most french men are like this.

why?

2007-01-26 19:03:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

The media makes us believe so .but i dont think its true

2007-01-26 19:00:40 · 20 answers · asked by spartan 3

Where does that kind of statement and thinking come from? Jealousy or just plain rudeness?

I'm an Asian girl and that's very much offensive and I wish I don't have to read about it, but I usually see responses like that.

What's wrong with guys liking Asian girls? Why do some have to resort to rude comments like that?

We Asians girls might have smaller bodies but we're still women. No different from other women.

2007-01-26 18:44:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Study says skin tone affects earnings By TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jan 26, 11:01 PM ET



NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Light-skinned immigrants in the United States make more money on average than those with darker complexions, and the chief reason appears to be discrimination, a researcher says.

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Joni Hersch, a law and economics professor at Vanderbilt University, looked at a government survey of 2,084 legal immigrants to the United States from around the world and found that those with the lightest skin earned an average of 8 percent to 15 percent more than similar immigrants with much darker skin.

"On average, being one shade lighter has about the same effect as having an additional year of education," Hersch said.

The study also found that taller immigrants earn more than shorter ones, with an extra inch of height associated with a 1 percent increase in income.

Other researchers said the findings are consistent with other studies on color and point to a skin-tone prejudice that goes beyond race.

Hersch took into consideration other factors that could affect wages, such as English-language proficiency, education, occupation, race or country of origin, and found that skin tone still seemed to make a difference in earnings.

That means that if two similar immigrants from Bangladesh, for example, came to the United States at the same time, with the same occupation and ability to speak English, the lighter-skinned immigrant would make more money on average.

"I thought that once we controlled for race and nationality, I expected the difference to go away, but even with people from the same country, the same race — skin color really matters," she said, "and height."

Although many cultures show a bias toward lighter skin, Hersch said her analysis shows that the skin-color advantage was not due to preferential treatment for light-skinned people in their country of origin. The bias, she said, occurs in the U.S.

Economics professor Shelley White-Means of the University of Tennessee at Memphis said the study adds to the growing body of evidence that there is a "preference for whiteness" in America that goes beyond race.

Hersch drew her data from a 2003 federal survey of nearly 8,600 new immigrants. The survey used an 11-point scale for measuring skin tone, in which 0 represents an absence of color and 10 the darkest possible skin tone.

From those nearly 8,600 participants, she focused on the more than 2,000 who were working and whose skin tone had been recorded during face-to-face interviews.

William Darity Jr., an economics professor at the University of North Carolina, said Hersch's findings are similar to a study he co-authored last year on skin tone and wages among blacks.

"We estimate that dark- or medium-skinned blacks suffered a discriminatory penalty of anywhere from 10 percent to 15 percent relative to whites," he said. "This suggests people cue into appearance and draw inferences about capabilities and skills based on how they look."

Darity said it is not clear whether the bias is conscious or subconscious.

Hersch said her findings, which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science next month in San Francisco, could support discrimination lawsuits based not on race, but on color.

"There are very few color discrimination suits, but they are on the rise," she said. "But these suits can be hard to prove."

2007-01-26 18:27:58 · 9 answers · asked by brandley_1999 2

Her mother doesn't like this situation. Her friends in family make black jokes all the time. Now days this kid will be excepted right? I mean these days we have so many mixed races everywhere.

2007-01-26 18:20:01 · 12 answers · asked by Daniell 2

was it right tat the govn interfere in the case... tat too wen v realize that caste system and racist attacks still dominates the indian society....

2007-01-26 17:54:00 · 7 answers · asked by JIMz... 1

2007-01-26 17:46:14 · 10 answers · asked by al bc 1

2007-01-26 17:12:32 · 16 answers · asked by the_trilogy_also 1

arent they people like me and you dont you think the things others all say about them hurt them tell me a truth and clear answer so i can know what others think about them!

2007-01-26 17:10:14 · 11 answers · asked by roxy 1

2007-01-26 16:39:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-26 16:27:09 · 5 answers · asked by mayur t 1

I am curious to find out just how rare I am!

2007-01-26 16:26:38 · 5 answers · asked by Angie M 2

My co-worker is from there and his wife is his cousin.

2007-01-26 16:18:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-26 16:02:38 · 3 answers · asked by Greg L 3

Why do they teach black history in every grade? I have 3 children and they teach the same black history in each grade, it never varies, you hear the same thing. If they are going to teach black history why don't they just remake our history books and include African Americans in the book instead of repeating the same things all the way through school? I'm not against them teaching it, i just don't understand why they can't just include it in normal teaching and make it a different issue per grade.

2007-01-26 15:51:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-26 15:47:58 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi I was curious what color of people still have problems in USA? Like in the old days before I was born. Black and White have problems and they seperate black and white. Indians have problem because white take over their lands and steal all the buffalos etc. I am Korean, I was taught it doesn't matter the color of skin you have, we are all people, that what I truly believe. I was just wondering if there still color of people still having problems even though it should be over with in the past. I am 28 years old so I was born in 1978.

2007-01-26 15:15:46 · 13 answers · asked by legacygirl2002 1

Doctor Catren( or.Katrin,or.Katren) McFayl was THE FOUNDER of the FIRST English-Yugoslavian Hospital FOR BONE TUBERCULOSYS IN Sremska Kamenica,in Yugoslavia, before the World War Two. She founded that FIRST ENGLISH-YUGOSLAVIAN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOR BONE TUBERCULOSYS IN SREMSKA KAMENICA, IN YUGOSLAVIA, BEFORE THE WORLD WAR TWO. There were a lot of ill children hospitalized and threated in that hospital, especially after the World War Two. I would like to know is doctor Katren McFayl A LIVE, OR MAYBE HER RELATIVES OR HER DESCENDANTS???!!! IF ANYONE HAS INFORMATIONS ABOUT HER PLEASE SEND YOUR ANSWERS TO THIS QUESTION!!! PLEASE HELP ME TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT LIFE AND WORK OF THAT GREAT HUMANIST, DOCTOR KATREN McFayle!!!!!

2007-01-26 15:03:23 · 1 answers · asked by VE BRUM 1

and what do you think of Australians themselves?

2007-01-26 15:03:21 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous