Other - Cultures & Groups - February 2007

I'm writing an editorial for school about sterotypes and labels, what are some good points I could put into my writing? Any ideas are welcome!! =] I just need some insight on my writing here. oh, and so far I have this:

Only recently did I realize how vast the expanse of sterotypes and labels are. I listened to many of my peers and how fluent they are with all these names. I think its rather sad to see steretypes used so often in daily language. But, what bothers me about this the most is that close to none of the people who use all these labels don’t know what they mean or how they originated. I myself will not define them for you in this because most of the names used are vulgar, and honestly, I don’t want to get in trouble for writing about them.

yeah, thats it. and im only in 8th grade so i CAN get suspended for writing the definitions of the words and the root of the words (the words are things like slu* , who*e , ho* then theres words like dork and geek and stuff like that.)

2007-02-02 01:28:07 · 8 answers · asked by Vici 2

2007-02-02 01:24:07 · 2 answers · asked by hulahoops1972 1

Very soon ENGLAND will be frozen with ICE mountains due to Global Warming. Not only England but also many cool cooler nations will be frozen with ICE and the whole nation will look like a ICE mountain. Nobody will be able to remove the ice since it would be huge. DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING!!!

2007-02-02 01:01:23 · 5 answers · asked by Indian wizard 2

I am looking for intersting and motivational ways! They are looking at the TV and get false impressions from popular public figures. I want them to love who they are and be proud about themselves and show it

2007-02-02 00:48:19 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm having a rough time. I'm in my Junoir year of high school an dI'm 16 years and I have so much going on. I'm involved in 2 afterschool activities, and I'm the treasuere of one and I'm tryin gto prepare for my SATs and I'm applying to scholarships and colleges. And some of my grades or slipping. An don top of that my dad is trying to take money ou tof my paycheck to paycheck. I feel like I'm goign to have a panic attack and I am so pissed at my dad for asking me for money and I have no respect for him because I never have asked him for money.

2007-02-02 00:08:53 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many of our British folk, once renowned for their immense self-discipline and self-reliance have now become lager louts, drug addicts, food junkies and shopaholics.

Why? what went wrong with us?

2007-02-01 22:49:28 · 24 answers · asked by andylefty 3

2007-02-01 22:43:17 · 8 answers · asked by jillu 1

2007-02-01 22:40:01 · 19 answers · asked by sanjay007 1

2007-02-01 22:36:28 · 6 answers · asked by mh02m1968 2

why,why not

2007-02-01 22:27:55 · 7 answers · asked by gay pharoah tha don 1

racist on other americans,specify which ones ex. mexicans,blacks,jews,middle eastern,asian decent and why.

2007-02-01 22:26:48 · 5 answers · asked by gay pharoah tha don 1

what white people think about indians? they way indians behave..the way indians act..in the way that indians have culture..about indians are conservative..about indians look and about anything that white people think about indians..good or bad.!!

2007-02-01 22:05:33 · 7 answers · asked by Puro 1

2007-02-01 21:33:33 · 15 answers · asked by SouthOckendon 5

2007-02-01 21:31:15 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

what do you think abaut the economy of this country,,,the people,,the culture..and what you want...

2007-02-01 21:20:37 · 2 answers · asked by alexsander_23 1

2007-02-01 21:10:28 · 4 answers · asked by harish 1

What would minorities say if this happened?
1. There was a "white entertainment channel"
2. There's an organization who only give scholarships to white people.
3. White History month
4. A holiday that celebrates a great white person (Benito Juarez's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

Why are whites always considered the racists?
I don't consider myself a racist. I try to keep an open mind but this just doesn't seem equal to me.

2007-02-01 21:07:32 · 8 answers · asked by graphix 5

In this age of internet, satelite tv and globalisation there is a fear that countires and groups are losing their own identity. If you turn on the radio or tv in the likes of Australia, Engalnd or USA you will hear and see the same music and tv programmes. Teenagers in Ireland and the US are likely to do the same types of things in their spare time and wear the same types of clothes, watch the same tv shows and listen to the same music. If you were to walk around Paris, London, Dublin, Melbourne or Toronto you will see the same names of shops, fast food places and the same kinds of pubs and clubs. Are we all losing our own distinct identity?

2007-02-01 20:39:53 · 2 answers · asked by Sean D 2

Why is there no "white history month"?
If there was an organization that only gave white people scholarships would they be considered racist?

I don't understand why minorities are coddled so much in modern America, do you? Everyone is a human, why do we all distance ourselves like this?

2007-02-01 20:36:32 · 5 answers · asked by graphix 5

Tell me which is more racist. Brit instead of British. Scot instead of Scottish. Paki instead of Pakistani. Pom instead of english.
Other than Paki it seems the rest can be used by the Press and all other media, without any thoughts of racism. So why do we make special rules for Paki's and other non Brits.

2007-02-01 20:20:50 · 26 answers · asked by Artisan 1

i would like to hear some inspiration stories if no one minds. i get such strength from people's rise against the struggle stories. my story is still being written but i am moving up from where i once was. every time i hear a inspiring story it makes me push that much harded to get the things that i want. please for those of you who only want to say ignorant things like " there is a such thing as spell checker" when i've spelled all of my words right you just don't recognize proper english then don't respond. save your corny comments for some one who really wants to read them.

2007-02-01 20:17:21 · 4 answers · asked by desiree60411 2

2007-02-01 20:09:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Chi_Agee?Do you think that we are all connected?

2007-02-01 20:01:40 · 1 answers · asked by Agent99 6

2007-02-01 19:36:24 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just learned, recently, that Indians are a Caucasian people group and are three times more closely related to white Europeans than Han Chinese. If you even look at them, we look almost identical, apart from pigmentation. How come I didn't know this before? Was it common knowledge and I was just ignorant?

2007-02-01 19:35:07 · 4 answers · asked by Garius 3

Hundreds of really poor Mongolian children live in yurts around Ulaanbaatar or way out in the countryside. Outside temperatures plunge to -43C or lower in winter. Families live on dried meat and flower for months on end and the poor kids play inside with sheep knuckle bones, wooden toys or even pebbles. I have even seen children trying to overcome boredom by playing with pieces of ice in the bitter cold.
It occurred to me that marbles would be a fantastic toy in Mongolia. Those of us who enjoyed playing marbles as children will know what I mean. Marbles are clean, almost unbreakable, easily transported and best of all require no batteries.
If anyone wants to go down in history as the Founder of Marbles in Mongolia, please read up a little on Mongolia and let me know how we can get something going.

2007-02-01 19:26:18 · 4 answers · asked by Naut 1

2007-02-01 19:22:14 · 7 answers · asked by montu shah 1

2007-02-01 19:13:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-01 19:06:29 · 8 answers · asked by Vipul 1

CHICAGO - Decades after the civil rights movement's greatest victories, black youth often see a world rife with discrimination, a new survey says. And yet they remain optimistic about their chances for affecting social change.

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Researchers at the University of Chicago, who were releasing the study Thursday, say their findings also show that these youth are complex when it comes to such issues as sex education and hip-hop music.

Cathy Cohen, a political science professor at the University of Chicago and the report's lead author, said the aim of the survey was to provide data that goes beyond broad stereotypes.

It found, for instance, that while 58 percent of black youth say they listen to rap music every day, the majority of them also think its videos are too violent and often portray black women in an offensive way.

"I enjoy rap music — I love hip-hop. I love totally different types of music," says Lauren Guy, a 24-year-old substitute teacher from Oak Park, Ill., who participated in the survey. "What I don't like is how women are degraded in music and how violence is glorified."

The survey, which researchers call the Black Youth Project, details the responses of nearly 1,600 black, Latino and white participants, ages 15 to 25, from several Midwestern cities.

Their responses don't always paint a rosy picture about minorities' view of the country.

More than half of African-American and Latino respondents said they believe government officials care very little about them, while 44 percent of white youth said the same. Just over half of black youth also were the most likely to feel their education was, on average, poorer than that of white youth. About a third of whites agreed with that statement. And 61 percent of African-Americans who were surveyed said they feel held back by discrimination.

"It's a red flag, prompting us to talk about what needs to happen in this country to bring about true equality for young people in general — and especially vulnerable young people," Cohen said, referring not just to black young people, but to everyone from low-income youth to gay and lesbians.

While they see many social problems in the world, the survey indicated teens and young adults are optimistic about their chances of changing things for the better.

A large majority of youth in the survey believe, for instance, that they can make a difference by participating in politics — with 79 percent black and white youth and 77 percent of Latino youth saying they feel that way.

They're also using their spending power through "buycotts" — buying products because they like a company's social or political values. A quarter of black youth said they'd participated in a buycott in the last 12 months, while 23 percent of white youth and 20 percent of Hispanic youth said the same. Cohen said several of the respondents mentioned the Motorola (RED) campaign, aimed at helping fund the fight against AIDS in Africa.

Other survey findings included the following:

• About a third of black and Hispanic youth thought drugs, violence, gangs and crime were problems in their neighborhoods, compared with 10 percent of white youth;

• 59 percent of white youth report receiving care from a private doctor, while 40 percent of African-American youth and 39 percent of Hispanic youth say the same;

• 81 percent of white youth, 79 percent of Hispanic youth and 76 percent of black youth disagree with the government funding abstinence-only education;

• 76 percent of African-American youth, 74 percent of Hispanics and 68 percent of whites think condoms should be provided at high schools.

The study is unusual in that it spotlights a group that's often overlooked by social scientists.

"We sometimes get a little statistic here and there as a footnote to someone else's research," says Bakari Kitwana, the Cleveland-based author of "The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture."

"This is a study that puts young black kids at the forefront."

Initial interviews for the survey were completed between July and November 2005, with in-depth interviews carried out in 2006. Youth interviewed for the project were from Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis and Gary, Ind.

The survey, which was funded by the Ford Foundation, has a margin of error of less than plus-or-minus 2 percentage points.

2007-02-01 19:02:21 · 9 answers · asked by brandley_1999 2