Other - Society & Culture - 7 June 2006

2006-06-07 16:07:18 · 3 answers · asked by Punker 1

This guy i know says he is Hungarian, and that means hes part mongolian. I dont think this is true, first of all he looks nothing like it and second, i think hungarians are closer to russian ethnic groups, and are caucasian. Im confused?? Are Hungarians part Mongolian?

2006-06-07 16:03:13 · 3 answers · asked by Dnndsnddbusdbdbdb 2

Blacks / Africans Americans/ Afro Americans have come along now. They are leading the world in science and cloning technology, they have greatly surpassed the asians by far in technological advancements and surpassed the Caucasion race in development and economic distrubution. Blacks are quickly occupying the majority of top universities in sciences, mathematics and engineering.
What future will happen to the Caucasions, Asians and other races of the world with the rapidly growing advancements of the black race?

2006-06-07 16:02:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

email me
thyblessed1@yahoo.com

2006-06-07 16:01:20 · 6 answers · asked by thyblessed1 1

House, Apartment, Condo, Trailer?

2006-06-07 15:55:22 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-07 15:52:38 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-07 15:44:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm going to prom and I was wondering if those vests things are only supposed to go with tuxedos or if it's ok to wear them with regular suits.

2006-06-07 15:39:35 · 2 answers · asked by Ronnie F 1

When a plane is in trouble, the pilot says, "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday". (at least on TV).
Does anyone know where it comes from?

2006-06-07 15:37:01 · 5 answers · asked by Leader Lady Sue 4

Why do (local) people always name a long list of names off, once they find out what town or neighborhood you live in? That annoys this S**t out of me. Why do they care if you know who those people are?

Example Conversation:

Them: So do you live here in N**t*m?
Me: No, I live in A*p*.
Them: Ohhh.. Do you know ***** *******?
Me: No, I don't know them, sorry.
Them: Well do you know *** *******?
Me: No.
Them: Okay. What about ******* *********? He lives there.
Me: No, don't know him either.
(And the conversation goes on and on...)

2006-06-07 15:36:33 · 2 answers · asked by ..... 2

2006-06-07 15:20:48 · 16 answers · asked by just curious 2

If people really knew their history books they would know that during the Civil War that black people as well as white people fought under that same flag to defend the Confederacy.

2006-06-07 15:20:10 · 14 answers · asked by ranger_girl 4

2006-06-07 14:56:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Just curious

2006-06-07 14:56:13 · 24 answers · asked by Airplanegirl 6

I am not talking about boyfriend /girlfriend stuff, or even personal stuff for that matter. Not that those things aren't significant, but outside yourself; what moves you with compassion? When do you say "I have got to do something about that, I have to help, I have to make a difference."

2006-06-07 14:53:12 · 14 answers · asked by hutmikttmuk 4

2006-06-07 14:48:04 · 5 answers · asked by SurferChick 2

All the winners seem to be old people or fat, toothless white women.

2006-06-07 14:37:57 · 12 answers · asked by Bloody Mary 1

do you like this

Hello out there,
I write to you as you sit in your chair.
To those with no love,
I feel for you.

To those with love,
Someone you can call your dove.
That is great,
For you do not have to wait.

However, to those with no beloved,
Do not think you are unloved.
For though we have never met,
My heart is with you yet.

We may live many miles away,
Or maybe right down the way.
But that point aside,
My heart can love worldwide.

Though we may never meet,
Do not feel incomplete.
Though we have never known,
Do not feel alone.

My heart is with you,
So don't feel blue.
Someday, you will find your love,
Someone to call your dove

2006-06-07 14:24:03 · 3 answers · asked by Sammy Hagar 3

I don't think this is right. I hear that so many times. You don't give excuses to people because they are from another culture.
If you ever been to Japan, it is not a well mannered society. You have to live here long enough to get past the 'awe' stage.

My Sisters-in-law do this to me. I even here my name. And, they look at me as they are doing it or after.

I give passes to children.

2006-06-07 14:18:35 · 30 answers · asked by Jen K. 2

When i am at school i have to go through the same routine, everyday nothing changes. But it is this that mostly causes the problems. I'm in the program JROTC and it really is a good program but, the Sgt's there can be real Mick Assholes. Seriously if you were to enter in something like that be prepare for the instructors because there are some who really are out there to pick on you and mess with you, which brings me to my question. When there is someone in a facility that constantly teases and harasses you ,if you will, what would you do to prevent it from reoccuring? Now it is too late to go to the head of the JROTC,i have tried to deal with but my mentality is shot and i'm ready to kill. It has become so bad to the point of complete exhaustion. I believe this person picks on me because out of that whole period there are only three African Americans which is myself and two other cadets whom are male. But I am the ONLY African American female in that period, so it's pretty unfair.

2006-06-07 14:14:42 · 2 answers · asked by CadetPigglyWinks 1

A TANK MACHEAN GUN AND A JEWISH PLUS GAS CHAMBER

2006-06-07 14:09:51 · 4 answers · asked by Zakariya6369 2

Or, giggle in front of them? I think it's totally rude to let someone know you are poking fun at them.　This happens a lot in Japan.

2006-06-07 14:07:27 · 12 answers · asked by Jen K. 2

people say i'm mean at first then they get to know me and call me nice..............

2006-06-07 14:03:01 · 22 answers · asked by N² 3

For many years Ben Stein has written a biweekly column called "Monday Night At Morton's." (Morton's is a famous chain of Steakhouses known to be frequented by movie stars and famous people from around the globe.) Now, Ben is terminating the column to move on to other things in his life. Reading his final column is worth a few minutes of your time.

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How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?

As I begin to write this, I "slug" it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is "eonlineFINAL," and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end.

It worked well for a long time, but gradually, my changing as a person and the world's change have overtaken it. On a small scale, Morton's, while better than ever, no longer attracts as many stars as it used to. It still brings in the rich people in droves and definitely some stars. I saw Samuel L. Jackson there a few days ago, and we had a nice visit, and right before that, I saw and had a splendid talk with Warren Beatty in an elevator, in which we agreed that "Splendor in the Grass" was a super movie But Morton's is not the star galaxy it once was, though it probably will be again.

Beyond that, a bigger change has happened. I no longer think Hollywood stars are terribly important . They are uniformly pleasant, friendly people, and they treat me better than I deserve to be treated. But a man or woman who makes a huge wage for memorizing lines and reciting them in front of a camera is no longer my idea of a shining star we should all look up to.

How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails.

They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer. A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world.

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him. A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists.

We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.

I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.

There are plenty of other stars in the American firmament...the policemen and women who go off on patrol in South Central and have no idea if they will return alive; the orderlies and paramedics who bring in people who have been in terrible accidents and prepare them for surgery; the teachers and nurses who throw their whole spirits into caring for autistic children; the kind men and women who work in hospices and in cancer wards.

Think of each and every fireman who was running up the stairs at the World Trade Center as the towers began to collapse. Now you have my idea of a real hero.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters. This is my highest and best use as a human. I can put it another way. Years ago, I realized I could never be as great an actor as Olivier or as good a comic as Steve Martin...or Martin Mull or Fred Willard--or as good an economist as Samuelson or Friedman or as good a writer as Fitzgerald. Or even remotely close to any of them.

But I could be a devoted father to my son, husband to my wife and, above all, a good son to the parents who had done so much for me. This came to be my main task in life. I did it moderately well with my son, pretty well with my wife and well indeed with my parents (with my sister's help). I cared for and paid attention to them in their declining years. I stayed with my father as he got sick, went into extremis and then into a coma and then entered immortality with my sister and me reading him the Psalms.


This was the only point at which my life touched the lives of the soldiers in Iraq or the firefighters in New York. I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty, in return for the lavish life God has devolved upon me, to help others He has placed in my path. This is my highest and best use as a human.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

By Ben Stein

2006-06-07 14:02:03 · 2 answers · asked by writer_girl20 3

I am in my forties and feel i have under achieved.I have a loving family but don't feel as though i have reached my full potential but have never really known what is the correct path to take.I am surrounded by succesful people which makes life so difficult at times.I know i am basically a good person but i suffer from envy !
I work for myself as a handy man and find myself in some beautiful homes with beautiful gardens and wish i could give my family the same but never seem to know how to get there !

2006-06-07 13:53:55 · 34 answers · asked by nuclear wasp 1

You only get to put one and 10 points... "oh.. you get the idea."

(btw, I'll check to make sure the question is real and you can't make one up.)

Have fun!

2006-06-07 13:51:19 · 15 answers · asked by ? 2

would you rather be a multi-millionaire and only live to be 55.

2006-06-07 13:50:34 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-07 13:50:21 · 5 answers · asked by babycakeys122 3

I broke my neck snowmobiling in 2003 and now have metal implants in my neck!

2006-06-07 13:48:00 · 12 answers · asked by babycakeys122 3

I'd love some advice on how to kick the habit.

2006-06-07 13:46:50 · 12 answers · asked by Linda 2