Other - Society & Culture - 14 February 2007

2007-02-14 10:33:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-14 10:33:26 · 1 answers · asked by Jack 3

The kind of music they listen: hip hop. The clothes they wear. Everything is so high brow.

2007-02-14 10:32:00 · 2 answers · asked by Razor 5

I heard on CNN that there are 40 Million illegal latinos in America. Is that True?

What is the total population..illegal and Legal. I know that Latinos are the largest ethnic minority in America.

2007-02-14 10:24:57 · 15 answers · asked by David 1

People buying "faux (fake) fur" trying to do the morally right thing have now found out from the American humane society the fur isn't fake, but real dog or cat fur.

People buying chocolate now have to try to find out from the chocolate manufacturer if the cocoa beans were picked by adults
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/14022007/325/lovers-urged-eye-ethical-cocoa.html in order to be moral and ethical.

My mom says consumers and investors believing they are doing the right thing is enough and that people shouldn't have to check into every possible detail and angle, which isn't always possible to do anyway. She says the people who mislead or with hold info (labelling fur as fake or exploiting children to pick beans or make clothes) bear the burden of responsibility.

I think we need to educate ourselves and not trust corporations.

What do you think????

2007-02-14 10:22:53 · 10 answers · asked by BeautifulJustBeautiful 2

Perilous Times, Witchcraft and The Occult
Witchcraft brings murder to Pacific paradise*
By Nick Squires in Goroka
Last Updated: 09/02/2007
Once hailed as an untouched Shangri-La, the mist-shrouded highlands of
Papua New Guinea are undergoing a dramatic resurgence in sorcery and
witchcraft.
Age-old beliefs in black magic and evil curses are back with a vengeance
in jungle-clad mountain valleys which were unknown to the outside world
until the 1930s.
Papua New Guinea tribesmen, Witchcraft brings murder to Pacific paradise
Tribesmen resort to old ways and rituals to 'ward off evil spirits',
including the murder and torture of those believed to be witches
Suspected witches – mostly women but including some men and even
children – have been subjected to horrific torture before being hanged
or thrown off cliffs.
A growing Aids crisis and the collapse of health services have sapped
villagers' faith in Western medicine and prompted a return to ancestral
beliefs.
Barely educated villagers living in remote mountain valleys are blaming
the increasing number of Aids deaths not on promiscuity or a lack of
condom use but on malign spirits.
When Raphael Kogun's uncle died two years ago, his family blamed a
middle-aged married couple who they were convinced had become possessed
by evil spirits. "We chopped their heads off with an axe and a bush
knife," said the 27-year-old farmer from Goroka, in Eastern Highlands
province.
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"I felt sorry for them but they were witches, they deserved to die. If
they were still alive they could hurt people with their magic. We buried
the bodies but then the police found out and started digging them up."
Two of Kogun's brothers were arrested under the Act of Sorcery
incorporated into PNG's criminal code, but the case collapsed because
witnesses were too afraid to testify. The number of witch killings has
been estimated at 200 a year in the neighbouring province of Simbu
alone, although definitive figures are impossible to come by.
A report by Amnesty International in September found there was a
"conspiracy of silence" surrounding the murders. Belief in evil spirits
is ubiquitous throughout Papua New Guinea, where more than 850 languages
are spoken by 5.5 million people.
In the highlands they are known as "sangumas" and can assume the form
not only of humans, but animals such as dogs, pigs, rats and snakes.
A surge in the illegal growing of marijuana in the emerald green valleys
has contributed to black magic paranoia, experts say.
A patient dying of HIV-Aids in a Papua New Guinea hospital, Witchcraft
brings murder to Pacific paradise
A patient dying of HIV-Aids in a Papua New Guinea hospital. Villagers
blame the deaths on malign spirits
"We're seeing a big rise in witchcraft cases. We hear of a killing
almost every week," said Hermann Spingler, a German Lutheran pastor who
heads the Melanesian Institute, a cultural study centre in Goroka. "They
take the law into their own hands and torture people to make them
'confess'. They drag women on ropes behind vehicles, burn them with hot
wire, chop off hands, fingers. People have been buried alive."

2007-02-14 10:20:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

who has been the most influential person in your life?
how and why????

2007-02-14 10:17:04 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok. Here is the situation. I took my truck to walmart to have the oil changed. They ended up wrecking my truck. The walmart headquarters for customer claims sent me enough for the estimate and enough for a rental car. It ends up that I am not old enough to rent a car so i ended up just borrowing my granny's truck to travel back and forth. Should I send the walmart people back the money for the rental car or should i keep it? i could give it to my granny b/c she has to use a old crappy car while i use hers. I didn't know what i should do? would i get in trouble for keeping the money (it's like 220 bucks)?

2007-02-14 10:10:18 · 3 answers · asked by nicole r 2

2007-02-14 10:09:04 · 17 answers · asked by barrie w 2

There’s this bully that was bulling my little sister. I told her to stand up to him whenever he would attack her with insults. So one day when I was picking her up from school I had seen a crowd of kids laughing at the bully. I ran to see what was happening and I saw the bully on the floor rolled into a ball. My little sister was in the corner of the schoolyard crying with this huge gash on the side of her head. I got the security guard to come outside and help me.

The witnesses all say that he had threw a rock at the side of her head. So she ran and kicked him in the balls. The bully was kicked out of school and he can’t come back.

Even though this is the bully’s fault in the first place should I make her give him an apology so then he won’t try to take “revenge” or anything like that?

2007-02-14 10:08:54 · 9 answers · asked by lorrnae 3

breakfast.(im born and bred in glasgow scotland,uk)

2007-02-14 10:08:48 · 23 answers · asked by LYNDA M 5

I know there are lots who will dangle or sip heels, but any women out there kick off the shoes no matter what you have on? For example, tennis shoes, boots, etc. I guees I'm looking to see if there are any girls who must have their shoes off and don't care what they have on....they're coming off. Thanks!

2007-02-14 10:05:44 · 1 answers · asked by Gin Slinger 1

molest little boys, worship money(live like kings), cheat on their wives and support war??,(which involves murder!. not the 'way' of Jesus').i just want to know if there is an explianation for all this hipocracy in organinzed religion that can can justify and support there being a real 'all powerful' spirit? I mean...
why does he let little babies in Ethiopia die of starvation and .uh.. bless pretty religousUS blonde girls with exactly what they prayed for!!(:..like OMG!!" )..because they don't know the right prayers to say???..or they're black? I want to know??? anyone???
oh and how come all the uh.. religous people are at war all over the world..and all the atheists appose war or violence,, but they are considered evil??..anyone?? (Budist faith excluded)

2007-02-14 10:05:03 · 18 answers · asked by Derrick Zooolander 3

..basically, could you or would you be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice?

2007-02-14 10:00:26 · 6 answers · asked by Dr Hook's world 1

2007-02-14 09:54:06 · 4 answers · asked by jackie f 1

2007-02-14 09:46:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

help me define this quote

2007-02-14 09:45:22 · 2 answers · asked by devillady13 1

2007-02-14 09:43:46 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

When I was 10, my teacher said "we can either become cops or criminals. What I'm saying to you is this... When you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference"?

2007-02-14 09:24:54 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is actually more of a statement than a question. As an African-American male, I encounter alot of complications due to my race. Many whites (and other races too) try to pretend like rascism and discrimination simply do not exist any more, and make comments that suggest that they know this for a fact. I can honestly say that I encounter some form of discrimination almost every single day, ranging from being closely watched in a gas station, to being singled out in the hallways of my school. Other races try to say that we as a race are simply imagining discrimination, and are just trying to get attention, or whatever, but they wouldnt know, and honestly they probably don't care. Another key topic is about how whites try to pretend that the days when people were openly rascist were so far away. This period of time was less that 40 years ago so its not just a thing of the past. The purpose of this "question" was to state to other races: Please do not speak of what you do not know.

2007-02-14 09:21:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-14 09:16:12 · 4 answers · asked by lankford01102 2

2007-02-14 09:15:17 · 27 answers · asked by shane m 1

2007-02-14 09:09:18 · 17 answers · asked by kelbean 4

home for the elderly,or would you have your doubts,(I watched a programme and it really shocked me,what really does go in these places)

2007-02-14 09:08:50 · 10 answers · asked by LYNDA M 5

There seems to be no form of monetary exchange. People seem to do things because they want to, not because they expect payment. Everyone is seen and treated equally. Is this a realistic expectation of where humanity could be headed?

2007-02-14 09:01:37 · 1 answers · asked by trer 3

2007-02-14 08:57:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Check out this article.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=227485

Why is it that any other culture can attack and protest about our culture, but we would be ridiculed, harrased, and called racist etc if we did the same thing. Can you imagine the outcry if a westerner stood on the street corner and burned photos of mohammed, protesting ramadan, or protesting the Sankranti festival in india, saying it was evil or something?

it seems like such double standards to me. why do people just not allow others to celebrate what they want, when they want. as long as they are not hurting anyone, what does it matter?

2007-02-14 08:55:14 · 4 answers · asked by Minerva 5

This is important HELP!!!

2007-02-14 08:53:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-14 08:53:07 · 30 answers · asked by Liz S 1

The reason I ask is because I think "african american" is a racist term, since it leaves all black peole who are not americans, without a "proper" denomination to their ethnic group, other than "black", but some people have said it is "offensive" and I really don't understand why. I am not offended to be called "latin american" nor "hispanic"; such are the words to name my ethnic group.

2007-02-14 08:50:38 · 7 answers · asked by Astrante 3