Other - Cultures & Groups - July 2007

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

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

2007-07-23 13:33:31 · 13 answers · asked by Nicholais S 6

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

2007-07-23 11:29:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

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

2007-07-23 10:46:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

How crazy is this girl?

2007-07-23 10:01:33 · 21 answers · asked by Mat P 2

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

i mean when u look at it the Prussian Blue's mum wants a perfect world, as well as the kkk. i mean they're not perfect. but look at this way if there were no other races then there would still be disabled people, blind people, downes syndrome children, wars, arguments, right?

2007-07-23 08:23:48 · 34 answers · asked by Jessie-Jane (JJ) 2

Intolerance is getting worse each day. When will everybody in the world will be able to walk side by side together and start accepting each other.

2007-07-23 08:21:47 · 16 answers · asked by A Journey 5

Hmm? I'm intrigued to hear your thoughts, especially teeangers'. I'm a teenager myself and i live in England :) Thankyou x

2007-07-23 08:14:12 · 9 answers · asked by Twinkle.Hayley 1

It's like other races assume that all black women wear fake hair! You can answer if you are any race! THANKS!

2007-07-23 08:05:28 · 41 answers · asked by ILovePizza 5

what do u think about them???

2007-07-23 07:46:18 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-23 07:28:47 · 17 answers · asked by Tanesia 2

2007-07-23 07:18:36 · 12 answers · asked by LUVHUBBY 2

I love all kinds of music.
I'm intelligent.
I have a nice personality.
I'm very kind.
I'm funny.
I'm trustworthy and a great friend.



But when some people look at me all they see a girl with a caramel complexion, of the African American persuasion. My hair is not like yours and obviously my skin is not like yours. Obviously that must mean I am ghetto, loud, mean, and dumb. My hair is probably fake and I listen to loud rap music everyday. I'll beat you up in a second if you give me a problem.

I mean, obviously. I'm black so all the above statements MUST be correct. Because all black people are the same and everything. That's a good reason to hate me, right?

2007-07-23 07:13:28 · 18 answers · asked by newyorkrose9 3

non war-mongers, pleasant, easy going. Etc.
There was a flick named "Canadian Bacon" with the late John Candy and Rhea Pearlman.
Does this stereotype, so commonly projected bear any real SIGNIFICANT Truth?
Please, answers preferred from Canadians.
And give details if you have an opinion based on fact, not hearsay.

2007-07-23 06:37:13 · 5 answers · asked by skydancerwi 6

if they have a god why does theres make them live in a dirty hot stinkin part of the world where disease and poverty are rife.
and we get far better and some of us cant even be bothered with church. it would be so much easier if we left them at their own devices and keep the extremists in the desert

2007-07-23 06:33:39 · 11 answers · asked by vk 2

have grown up with a big family that drinks alot. my granma has eight brother and sisters. and they are all big drinkers. and she will have card parties were they play penucle and they drink and cuss and have a good time. i have heard dirty jokes. and they don't mind kids cussing. they are all great people, they will stay up until 6 in the morning playing cards and drinking.

i notice alot of people think it's wrong to have kids were there is alcohol. but this is how i was raised. i think it's fine. they have let me taste alcohol. i actually think kids are more resonsible with alcohol when raised like this. i want to know why some people are so offended by this envirernment? i am a good kid and so are my cousins and my sisters and it is so much fun growing up this way. i have so many great memories. i wouldn't change a bit of it.

why do people get offended by this? why do people believe kids should be know were around alcohol? what are your opinions on this?

Additional Details

1 hour ago
just so you know, i have a really great respect for alcohol, and from what i know so do my cousins my age.

and they don't drive home after drinking. my aunt and uncle who live like an hour away from me stay at my granparents house. and everyone else lives like a block away. i have only seen one person drink and drive.

1 hour ago
i don't want people to think these people are bad. it's not like they teach us bad things, they just have fun.

1 hour ago
i want to make it very clear that these people aren't alcoholics. aslo my grandpa was a school janitor, but he hasn't ever drank even a drop of alcohol. and my grandma worked at a dry cleaners, but they both raised 5 of my grandpas sisters after his parents died. when they had no money to begin with, and today they have one of the best housed in our comunity. my other uncle served in the army, and one owns his own bisness, one of my cousins owns his own bank chain, ones a fire rescue person.

so these people do have good jobs. and they don't live in crappy houses. most of the people are pretty well off.

1 hour ago
and we were never offered like whole beers. it was always like a sip of whine or something.

2007-07-23 06:30:28 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

but why is it everytime a crime happens people say "oh well that had to be a white person" or "that had to be a black person" Every one has done it so whats up with that?

2007-07-23 06:00:14 · 6 answers · asked by D N 3

2007-07-23 05:53:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-23 05:50:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not, but just wondered about the rest of you.

2007-07-23 04:43:23 · 9 answers · asked by Angelheart♥ 5