Other - Cultures & Groups - February 2007

Not to offend any plus-size women, but im a natural 0 and i'm sick of seeing magazines with articles titled
'I'm a natural woman!' and she's a plus size!
So do we all have to be plus-size to be 'natural women' ??

I hate it because people look down on me as much as they look down on larger-people.
They look at me and think im not 'natural' - they think im anorexic, when indeed i'm not, I was just blessed with my figure.

Women should be happy with who they are but yet they always have to go around putting someone else down - I'm sick of plus-size women moaning that thin-people are 'unnatural'!

Anyone else share my views? Just wondering what you guys think because personally im sick of being looked down on and being told im not natural!

xx

2007-02-10 05:14:46 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2007-02-10 05:01:18 · 15 answers · asked by Willie 1

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2007-02-10 04:23:21 · 8 answers · asked by Delfino L 1

something unusual

2007-02-10 04:02:53 · 8 answers · asked by cool_sagacious 1

I am a 32 year old mom in Texas with two small children, so maybe I am a little out of touch here! I am hearing and reading about it and have no clue what it is. Someone even mentioned cutting themselves! Is it scary?

2007-02-10 04:01:42 · 3 answers · asked by tamathy 2

2007-02-10 03:50:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Its probably because none of them play soccer like in europe, brazil or Soauth Africa.

2007-02-10 03:45:32 · 46 answers · asked by Anonymous

normally i zest up..

2007-02-10 03:36:05 · 6 answers · asked by erics.life 1

persanally ill be going alone?

2007-02-10 03:30:20 · 5 answers · asked by erics.life 1

I think arabs are really attractive (nice mysterious eyes)!

2007-02-10 03:28:34 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-10 03:23:16 · 9 answers · asked by RAWR♥™ 1

2007-02-10 02:35:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

why do people call me emo ????

2007-02-10 02:32:42 · 8 answers · asked by dreamer 2

the japanese people are usually fair skinned. some are "whiter" than white europeans; would you guys classify the japanese as white?

2007-02-10 02:31:45 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-10 02:25:39 · 4 answers · asked by Angelo 2

Human society, from origin until now, has always been at war within and between groups and has led to two World Wars. Presently, terrorism and low intensity warfare are affecting many parts if the world.

As the current global population of 6 billion increases to 8 billion by 2025, national and international conflicts will continue to be a source of concern for humanity. When evil minds combine, good minds have to work together and combat.
It is a privilege to be on Yahoo. I am here to offer my answer to the question raised by the President of India on Terrorism.

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The answer to this is straight. Address the minds. . Before the terrorists fire weapons, terrorism is already in their minds. If we have to work for prevention we will need to address the minds first. Because violence first grows in the minds, just as peace does.





Education.
The best and most certain way to change behavior or belief of any kind is not force or threat, but education.
If you can logically explain to someone why something is wrong, counter-productive, ill advised or makes them look stupid, they will cease the behavior.
If you simply tell them that their actions/beliefs will cause them discomfort, cause anger from others or is wrong according to your beliefs, they will probably continue to follow their inner guidance, undetered by you.
The only consistantly effective way to change their inner guidance is through education
Well sir, this is a complicated question with endless answers. There is no right answer and, with that said, there is absolute wrong answer. Every culture, ethnicity, nation and organization is going to have different approaches with varying motives. With that fact present, the only answer is for everyone to listen and be tolerant. If the world plays the "me vs. you" attitude like it has for centuries, terrorism will only fuel itself, rather than extinguish itself. Only a fool would think that bombing a country, and destroying an infrastructure will magically eliminate a system of beliefs deep within the roots of people's minds.


War is mankind's most ignoble, wasteful pursuit. It waste physical and emotional resources and worst of all time itself. Until we learn to fully appreciate and tolerate one another as individuals and equals no matter what our race, religion, philosophy or socioeconomic status the tender fabric of human lives will be rent asunder by the violence of war. The first step is to ameliorate physical suffering and fear for security that are endemic to many populations, then educate them about the rest of the world, convince everyone to stop brain washing young children and make certain that all humans have their needs met and at least some of their desires fulfilled. The irony is that if the resources spent on wars were not wasted then this could possibly even be accomplished. To completely fulfill this many privileged would need to recognize that they must share more and not be arrogant and adamant. I can only wish that this would happen so that there could be peace; perhaps one day some great person will devise a means to bring this about.


Sir,

I really believe that the real evil is not the terrorism. It is the media and everything they do to undermine efforts to combat terrorism, in the name of free speech.

Until we make the media accountable for their false reportings and reportings that undermine efforts, then terrorism will feed on the information given.

I believe in freedom of speech, I also believe that with that freedom comes great responsibility to report the truth or nothing at all if it inhibits any government from operating special operations. So with great freedom comes responsibility and accountability.







We need an international effort to help educate the world on a social level. Much of the fighting is based on fears that are unwarranted and could be resolved if both sides understood each other. Humanity instinctively fears what it does not know. Eliminate the ignorance, and you eliminate much of the intolerance. We need to present our cultures on a human level, instead of a generalization. It wouldn't be a cure all, and would probably be a large expense. But even saving one life from a death by ignorance would be priceless.

Let me first mention that it is an absolute honour getting to answer your question. Thank you for this timely put forward question of yours concerning one of the gravest issues mankind has ever faced i.e. terrorism.

Coming to your question, I think this is the question you have asked yourself many a times while the execution of the prime convict of the terrorist attack on our parliament rested on a single nod or “nay” of yours. I know the decision isn’t entirely yours but, as publicized by media—your stand in Afzal’s case does matter.

Before I put forward my answer, I would like to analyze, from whatever I have seen, read and pondered over; the root-cause(s) of terrorism.

Terrorism has different facets, different levels of severity and different circumstantial causes. But in my view, it has common roots which start growing with mistrust, grow to the limits of distrust and end up bringing the involved communities/ individuals into disrepute.

Two communities which have different interests (take any two fast developing countries for example) have a certain air of competition and mistrust between each other. A few occurrences of miscommunication, lack of communication or vile acts of a few people who do not belong anywhere spark the feelings of enmity and complete loss of trust. This is where the targets i.e. both the opposing parties are “softening up” themselves for the heinous crimes of terrorism.

When we directly or indirectly segregate ourselves from others, we plant a negative thought in their minds. And the thought reads- “indifference.” Yes, we start off as being “indifferent” to each others’ woes. Actually, as humans, we are somehow destined to connect and be affected by each other. “Indifference” is tougher to achieve than to mention.

In an attempt to remain indifferent to your neighbour’s woes, you actually end up hating his success(es) which I believe is the first step in the direction of inhumanity and terror.

There is another way terrorism can branch out of its roots. The other way is called “insecurity”. Difference of interests among two communities which are both even on all grounds is not as dangerous a situation as is the difference between those two communities among which one is dominant over the other. The smaller and weaker community is weak in totality but the same cannot be said about the members of the weaker community. A human is never born weak. When they sense that the bigger tree is sucking away all the nutrition from the earth, they feel insecure (ironically, a trait of the meek) and resort to terrorism.

Sometimes, it is just the human within us that gets the best of us. The “mob mentality” it is! Most of the times the wrong-doers are a few but they are the loudest and hence the most apparent. We form “generalizations” (here comes another of the roots of terrorism i.e. quick generalizations) based on those few loud members of a community which leads to misinformation and hence, miscommunication.

Now, that I have made clear what I think is the cause of terrorism as a whole; let me put forward my humble answer to you. I hope you like it.

I have never been a big fan of the capital punishment per se. As I have already suggested that the roots of terror are very deep rooted—so much so, that if you completely shift your perspective to match that of a member of the community which is said to be churning out terrorists, you can somewhat justify your means. This is the reason you have to kill the cause and not the people. The easiest method to do it, the way I see it, is by the help of communication. What starts off with miscommunication can possibly be uprooted by communication.

To bring it down to Layman’s terms: When an Indian chats with a German, a French, an Afghan, an Iraqi or a Pakistani; they do not sound like they are any different from him. We all love good music, we all love our family and we all follow the same fundamental philosophies of life. There might be differences of interest superficially but, as humans we all just bleed red. This fact needs to be spread and shared with everyone and the only way to do it is communication and media. Movies have been a bridge between India and other countries for decades
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Promote Secularism through textbooks.
I am thankful to all those chapters in the textbooks I had growing up which had pictures and stories of a Hindu and a Muslim celebrating each other’s festivals with joy and goodwill. A tender mind in childhood can be moulded in any desired way. Let us sculpt a transparent mind with room for respect towards every human culture and religion and no room for envy and hatred. Let’s make communalism a no issueWorldwide Television and Radio.
How about this—all the nations of the world join hands with UN (or create an organization of their own) to put to air a few satellite Television and Radio channels which cover features, news, music, cultural sketches and special stories from all over the globe(?) Every nation gets an equal opportunity to display all the good things it has to offer and share with rest of the world. This would promote mutual understanding and perpetual dissolution of hostility or lack of respect towards each other. The beauty pageants, a few TV channels are doing just that. But, I think we need to do it more often, on a grander scale and with better communicability.

By better communicability I mean that the material should either be dubbed or be staged in local languages (with some added local flavour). I guess, there can be better ways to share cultures. This was the best I could think of. I’ll wait for the time when we will have more performers of “worldwide” fame and a better and bigger audience of every form of art. Terrorism will die screaming under all this.

3- A Fearless Stand.
As people, I think it is our responsibility to get our views registered. Getting noticed is not in our hands but raising voices is. When you think something wrong is going on, you have to do something about it. As a journalist, you have to let is be known to people; as a blogger, you have to blog about it, as a Newspaper reader, you have to e-mail the editor about it… some way or the other, we all have to stand firm and express our viewpoint. You have to learn this from the enemy. They are always fewer than us, but they get their violent thoughts known to the world. Why can’t we fight back with the same weapon?

2007-02-10 02:18:24 · 24 answers · asked by akshay.shete 1

...or do you have a Foul Weather Friend ...!!!????

If yes ...why are you ... or why do you keep them as friends.. ?

As foul weather friends are basically the friends that are always jealous of you ... and hate it when you are doing well, but always there to ''comfort you'' in a disaster or crisis... in their smug manner...

..this is not really aimed at guys.

Why would anyone not be happy ... if their friend was doing well ??

doubt i'll get many answers... ;-)) ....as usual

2007-02-10 02:12:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-10 02:12:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I invited a guy a few years older than me (mid 20s) to hang out through email by saying come hang out you'd love all my friends, we'd have an excellent time. He messages back saying come hang out huh, I'd love your friends huh, I'd have an excellent time. haha...how so? Why is he mocking/teasing me and what does that mean when he's laughin and asking questions like that?

2007-02-10 02:12:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

* They make their parents aging earlier.
* They become misbehaved & non deciplaned, as the system restricts the parents from deciplaining their children, especially in the west.
* So they become wild creatures, aggressive, anti socials, stand against their parents, hit them & may kill them! & commit more crimes.
* The joy of having babies or children (little devils) doesn't worth the hassle & the trobles facing the parents.
* they(children) consume the parents efforts physically, morally & financially.
* Those parents who have no children, don't know the great value of that. But the rest pins them , so they starve for having children.
* I appreciate the Chines, as they restrict to 1 child.
* the crime in China (>a billion people) is less than in UK of about 60 millions!
* Just at them with a 12 years future eye, so u will realise the facts mentioned about them.
I hate them.
MY ADVICE IS NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN, IF DON'T BELEAVE ME, TRY ONE ONLY, U WILL FIND MY IDEAS R FACTS.

2007-02-10 02:10:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.therealamericantruth.com

2007-02-10 01:42:39 · 10 answers · asked by Buffman316 1

Chinese,The Most Envied Race/Civilization

huge land, a pure race, culturely, great economy, great technology, strong military and nukes, most thoughtful leaders, independent political system, physically superior(olympics)

the huge land and pure race combination is enough. mongrels (americans), and losers from failed races=civilizations(small countries) envy the pure and almighty Chinese race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETVh4oYVN10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc_GSNAvFFo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ_CyMckP0M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kMBjq2EQBE

2007-02-10 01:35:34 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

how great they are

2007-02-10 01:15:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I graduated in 03 and I have never heard of something as stupid as putting a leech on ur body that is stupid. What do u all think about it. Kids are getting more messed up these days.

2007-02-10 01:10:15 · 2 answers · asked by lizzalicious 2

2007-02-10 00:47:05 · 34 answers · asked by dany 3

2007-02-10 00:20:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why can we all not just live peacefully and not want to harm each other.
Just because someone was not born in the uk , does this mean they are not able to be treated as a human being.
The Human Rights Act states that we are all equal and should be treated equal!
Why if someone is black,asian or muslim does this make them a target? Even white people are targeted . Has the world gone mad!!!!!

2007-02-10 00:18:12 · 21 answers · asked by lawsonblue 2

2007-02-10 00:11:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous