"What I want....
A soda, a million dollars, maybe a pony too. Unfortunately intercultural communications cannot give me those things. Instead I hope to settle for learning how to keep my foot out of my mouth when dealing with other cultures." (Wagner 2011)
If it's not obvious, I failed the assignment on blogging about what I want to gain and what my expectations were for the class.
I feel that I summed up my wants fairly well, and I really don't think I have attained that goal. In all honesty, I'm much to blunt and frank for political correctness. I did learn plenty of skills in dealing with other cultures, but it seems the number one way to get by is to just say nothing. If another culture wants to communicate with me, just keep my end of the communication to a minimum, that way, I don't step on any toes. (As I often do)
As for expectations, not what I expected... I could probably rant about that for a while and perhaps I will AFTER I'm holding my certificate...
Bah, what the hell;
I expected it to be an introductory class teaching students that there are differences between cultures and how to best avoid delicate situations. I did not expect the 700 pages of reading, only two written exams, blogging, and the additional hours of work this class required versus what the 'other' required class required. That I couldn't take becuase of my Accounting class. "Oh well, whatever, nevermind. Hello? Hello? How low?" (cobain)
I must say that I did get more enjoyment, and did learn significantly more than I excpected, but I didnt expect to be expected to learn so much. It may be that my personality just doesn't fit with "intercultural communications" but since when do accountants need to be socialites? I'm the only one in the accounting II class that can ace every test WITHOUT using a calculator, but I have a difficult time accepting other cultures that don't accept me. Sure, I can keep my mouth shut (which is one of the things I learned from class, sometimes the best COA is to just STFU) but I have a hard time being accepting of un-accepting people.
As with most things I learn at the learning institutions I have attended, I will lock it away in some part of my brain and use it when necessary, and this class ranks right up there with Algebra II in terms of how often I use it... Which is everyday. But that's the way it goes when you sell stuff for a living.
*reads the list of things to touch on in this blog*
"What ideas changed?"
Not many of my ideas of other cultures have changed. Change is something I don't typically like, besides, my dislike of certain cultures is part of my culture... wow, that looks a lot more profound in type than it did in my head... it gets its own line.
"My dislike of certain cultures is part of my culture."
If all snorks are snoggles and some snoggles are zorks, then all zorks are definitely...
Logic, that is why I feel the way I do about certain cultures. Specifically those that will remain nameless for the sake of me not wanting to harm any future relations with anyone I may meet... But those of you who know me well know what it is I'm talking about.
uh oh... I totally just spent the last 15 minutes blogging about what should be on the paper. DAMNIT!
-Look at goals for class *CHECK*
-Have you met these goals *CHECK*
-What did you learn from this class *CHECK*
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
"Everybody needs to shut up and listen" --Kara Grace
The lost boys from Sudan weren't given very good guidance in living in the states.
Immigration is an important part of every country, and it is no different in the USA. Americans need to be accepting of other people moving in, but we have to make sure that we don't invite people in who intend to do us harm.
One big problem is "racial profiling" How many Orthodox Jews from Israel want to kill Americans? How many lost boys from Sudan want to blow up government buildings? How many Canadian doctors want to infect the population with smallpox?
Now, how many middle eastern muslims want to kill americans?
How do the numbers of each group compare to people that want us dead?
Once we are done screening possible immigrants, they need to spend some time learning the ways of our country. The best way to do this would be to have them live with an American for a few months. Either have an American stay with the immigrant, or have the immigrant stay with the American long enough to learn what they need to know to survive.
that way they will be more productive and beneficial to our country.
Immigration is an important part of every country, and it is no different in the USA. Americans need to be accepting of other people moving in, but we have to make sure that we don't invite people in who intend to do us harm.
One big problem is "racial profiling" How many Orthodox Jews from Israel want to kill Americans? How many lost boys from Sudan want to blow up government buildings? How many Canadian doctors want to infect the population with smallpox?
Now, how many middle eastern muslims want to kill americans?
How do the numbers of each group compare to people that want us dead?
Once we are done screening possible immigrants, they need to spend some time learning the ways of our country. The best way to do this would be to have them live with an American for a few months. Either have an American stay with the immigrant, or have the immigrant stay with the American long enough to learn what they need to know to survive.
that way they will be more productive and beneficial to our country.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Red and yellow black and white we are... wait a second, are we really?
Why is it that I always miss class on the cool days?
That explains why I was so sure I saw Mr. Peterson's van in MPLS!
I'm tired.
I'm hungry.
I wanna go away.
After watching the video for class last week, I am now blogging about it.
First off, Mr. Peterson is awesome, even though he beat my helicopter in a race.
Handicap. The handicapper general, from that one book (looks up on google)"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
The book tells of a future dystopia where everyone is equal, and because not everyone can be agile, smart, and beautiful; everyone is made crippled, retarded, and ugly.
Unfortunately there are problems that occur in any species, and injuries can happen to anything that is considered "living" What's cool about people, is that we can (for the most part) integrate people with handicaps into society. Automatic door openers don't bother me. Wheelchair ramps dont bother me. Handicapped parking BOTHERS ME.
Why?
Because I see it being abused. Go push carts at wal mart and look at the people using the handicapped parking. Mostly middle aged people who appear to be perfectly healthy (and maintain that appearance in conversation and after getting to know them) that park there because, usually, an old injury. One guy made me really mad, he's got this big ass truck, hell, I'd have a hard time getting in and out of it. He parks (terribly by the way) in the handicapped space, puts his tag on his mirror, hops out, does his shopping (which included a 40# bag of dog food) loads it all in his pickup then climbs in. WTF
It's not that the guy hurt me, and he probably didn't hurt anyone else, but I think (omg I said "I think") Let me rephrase that:
Parking in that space should be earned, not applied for and handed out.
Those parking places, toilet stalls, and elevators are there for somebody who really needs them. What happens if somebody needs that space and can't get it because somebody who doesn't really need it, took it.
Bleh, I'm going in circles. I'm tired, and the seafood isn't agreeing with me, OK?
I think it would be really funny to see somebody try to trip Mr. Peterson... lol, Stick his foot out and get it ran over!
Anyway, my experience with "Americans with Disabilities" has been pleasant, the only thing I don't understand is how to tell somebody that you have no time to talk to them, when THEY don't understand what you mean... But I run into that problem with 'normal' people too.
There was a kid I went to school with, the Watford kids know him, but his name will not be used. I consider him a friend. I have very few friends, as I use the term only for those that are truly, "friends."
He was always a little slower at everything, sometimes painfully slow, but he would finish whatever thing he was working on, and he had an understanding of what he was doing. I know this because I helped him with his algebra homework a few times. But he didn't seem to understand when people would make fun of him. He'd just smile and continue about his day.
It always made me so mad, one day I finally told the other guys to not do that, and for the most part (at least when I was around) they did. But this kid, my friend, would always greet me and ask how I was doing.
He would listen. "...instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?" --Marla Singer, Fight Club. He always invited me to his birthday parties, and it was always awkward, but those were some of the most fun ever. I'm worried about finals, girls, cars, work, and other crap and I sat down with him to play with hotwheels after a day at the go cart place. Sometimes I wish I could have that much fun doing something so simple.
I've often wondered how I'd react to being disabled. Losing a limb, or a lobe of my brain. If you haven't, read the book:
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
I can loan you a copy. I think it really helps the reader to understand what its like to know that you were once capable, but now are not.
Like that other guy in high school...
He's the same person, I never particularily got along with him, in fact quite the opposite, but it really hits home that it could happen to anyone at any time.
One problem that I see is a lot of guilt. People feel guilty for other's obsticles. I don't want anybody to have to be in a wheel chair for the rest of their life, but I wasn't the one driving the car. At least they are alive and living in a place where they can be productive members of society, where, for the most part, people accept and even help those who have it harder than the rest.
But guilt? Or pity? Those never helped anyone. If you feel bad about somebody's condition then do something to help fix it. Get involved in your local government. Volunteer for a local charity, meals on wheels, assisted living, whatever... just help.
I don't even know where I'm going, I don't really have a goal for this blog and it is a broad subject that involves everyone.
I think it really boils down to what I've said in other blogs (can't remeember if it was more than one or not) but I always say this, and I'm sure it's been said before.
We are all Americans. There are no African Americans, Norweagian Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, or Americans with Disabilities.
There are only Americans. Treat your fellow Americans with respect, and they will do the same.
For the purposes of this blog, I will expand that statement to include People-kind (see how I used a gender neutral term there?)
Well, (deep subject huh) my fingers hurt, and I gotta hear that album again... in my new car.
Everybody go buy the new Foo Fighers album, Listen to song number... like 6, "these days" you tube it, it makes me want to cry :( but in a wierd way.
--Peace, and if that doens't work, then completely annihilate them.
That explains why I was so sure I saw Mr. Peterson's van in MPLS!
I'm tired.
I'm hungry.
I wanna go away.
After watching the video for class last week, I am now blogging about it.
First off, Mr. Peterson is awesome, even though he beat my helicopter in a race.
Handicap. The handicapper general, from that one book (looks up on google)"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
The book tells of a future dystopia where everyone is equal, and because not everyone can be agile, smart, and beautiful; everyone is made crippled, retarded, and ugly.
Unfortunately there are problems that occur in any species, and injuries can happen to anything that is considered "living" What's cool about people, is that we can (for the most part) integrate people with handicaps into society. Automatic door openers don't bother me. Wheelchair ramps dont bother me. Handicapped parking BOTHERS ME.
Why?
Because I see it being abused. Go push carts at wal mart and look at the people using the handicapped parking. Mostly middle aged people who appear to be perfectly healthy (and maintain that appearance in conversation and after getting to know them) that park there because, usually, an old injury. One guy made me really mad, he's got this big ass truck, hell, I'd have a hard time getting in and out of it. He parks (terribly by the way) in the handicapped space, puts his tag on his mirror, hops out, does his shopping (which included a 40# bag of dog food) loads it all in his pickup then climbs in. WTF
It's not that the guy hurt me, and he probably didn't hurt anyone else, but I think (omg I said "I think") Let me rephrase that:
Parking in that space should be earned, not applied for and handed out.
Those parking places, toilet stalls, and elevators are there for somebody who really needs them. What happens if somebody needs that space and can't get it because somebody who doesn't really need it, took it.
Bleh, I'm going in circles. I'm tired, and the seafood isn't agreeing with me, OK?
I think it would be really funny to see somebody try to trip Mr. Peterson... lol, Stick his foot out and get it ran over!
Anyway, my experience with "Americans with Disabilities" has been pleasant, the only thing I don't understand is how to tell somebody that you have no time to talk to them, when THEY don't understand what you mean... But I run into that problem with 'normal' people too.
There was a kid I went to school with, the Watford kids know him, but his name will not be used. I consider him a friend. I have very few friends, as I use the term only for those that are truly, "friends."
He was always a little slower at everything, sometimes painfully slow, but he would finish whatever thing he was working on, and he had an understanding of what he was doing. I know this because I helped him with his algebra homework a few times. But he didn't seem to understand when people would make fun of him. He'd just smile and continue about his day.
It always made me so mad, one day I finally told the other guys to not do that, and for the most part (at least when I was around) they did. But this kid, my friend, would always greet me and ask how I was doing.
He would listen. "...instead of just waiting for their turn to speak?" --Marla Singer, Fight Club. He always invited me to his birthday parties, and it was always awkward, but those were some of the most fun ever. I'm worried about finals, girls, cars, work, and other crap and I sat down with him to play with hotwheels after a day at the go cart place. Sometimes I wish I could have that much fun doing something so simple.
I've often wondered how I'd react to being disabled. Losing a limb, or a lobe of my brain. If you haven't, read the book:
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
I can loan you a copy. I think it really helps the reader to understand what its like to know that you were once capable, but now are not.
Like that other guy in high school...
He's the same person, I never particularily got along with him, in fact quite the opposite, but it really hits home that it could happen to anyone at any time.
One problem that I see is a lot of guilt. People feel guilty for other's obsticles. I don't want anybody to have to be in a wheel chair for the rest of their life, but I wasn't the one driving the car. At least they are alive and living in a place where they can be productive members of society, where, for the most part, people accept and even help those who have it harder than the rest.
But guilt? Or pity? Those never helped anyone. If you feel bad about somebody's condition then do something to help fix it. Get involved in your local government. Volunteer for a local charity, meals on wheels, assisted living, whatever... just help.
I don't even know where I'm going, I don't really have a goal for this blog and it is a broad subject that involves everyone.
I think it really boils down to what I've said in other blogs (can't remeember if it was more than one or not) but I always say this, and I'm sure it's been said before.
We are all Americans. There are no African Americans, Norweagian Americans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans, or Americans with Disabilities.
There are only Americans. Treat your fellow Americans with respect, and they will do the same.
For the purposes of this blog, I will expand that statement to include People-kind (see how I used a gender neutral term there?)
Well, (deep subject huh) my fingers hurt, and I gotta hear that album again... in my new car.
Everybody go buy the new Foo Fighers album, Listen to song number... like 6, "these days" you tube it, it makes me want to cry :( but in a wierd way.
--Peace, and if that doens't work, then completely annihilate them.
Monday, April 11, 2011
It's all a blur, what week? What time? Maaaow....
In class we watched a documentary called, "Middlesexes, redefining He and She" It was an interesting movie about sexuality in different cultures. It ties closely to what Ed talked about. One thing that I see with people who are "lost" as to what gender identity they are don't seem to have much support from family members. What I thought was most interesting (and already kind of knew about) was same sex sex in nature. Animals screw each other because it feels good.
I would be willing to bet that anyone who is sexually active doesn't do it to make a baby. In fact, I bet that only 1 out of every 1,000 'sexual encounters' are to make a baby. Heck, probably more like 1 in 1,000,000
One thing that consistently angers me is people killing each other over stupid crap. "She was a he! People will think I'm gay! Oh no! He slept with the whole football team! We need to kill that guy!"
Sometimes I wish it was legal for stupid people to die by the hand of others.
Homophobic people are afraid of homosexuals because they are afraid that they are gay. And like any sane human being, violence is the easiest way to solve a problem. Bleh, I wish people would just defend themselves with more agression than they are being attacked with. But people are scared... That's the way it is, and it will never change...
Unless people realize that you can't legislate safety, peace, and love.
I would be willing to bet that anyone who is sexually active doesn't do it to make a baby. In fact, I bet that only 1 out of every 1,000 'sexual encounters' are to make a baby. Heck, probably more like 1 in 1,000,000
One thing that consistently angers me is people killing each other over stupid crap. "She was a he! People will think I'm gay! Oh no! He slept with the whole football team! We need to kill that guy!"
Sometimes I wish it was legal for stupid people to die by the hand of others.
Homophobic people are afraid of homosexuals because they are afraid that they are gay. And like any sane human being, violence is the easiest way to solve a problem. Bleh, I wish people would just defend themselves with more agression than they are being attacked with. But people are scared... That's the way it is, and it will never change...
Unless people realize that you can't legislate safety, peace, and love.
Monday, April 4, 2011
I dont know what week it is. But I do know it's early April... I think.
Day, ummmm.... 8
Documantary. Transgeneration
Has it affected your relationships in school? Friends left. Other people came closer. Many people were very supportive. Professors were harder to work with. Especially with the name.
[Kind of makes me wonder just how supportive my friends are...]
How did you pay for it? Raised 1/3 himself and a nice guy gave him a loan for the rest of the mesectamy
The best genetal doctor costs 50k
Girlfriend met him before he changed. She was very accepting about the change. "Hybrid set of parts down there right now"
Been together for 2 years. This may. Her dad had a huge freakout. He eventually decided it was ok. Lots of tech for making babies if he decides to have kids.
[I think its great that somebody can be so understanding, maybe there is hope for the world and society]
Parents are divorced. Mom didn't want Ed to mess up her life, but she has come to accept it. Hasn't seen dad in over a decade till spring break. Ed is the only kid that looks like his father.
[One of the millions of kids who are victim to divorced parents. That angers me, divorces. Parents act like it doesn't affect the kids, or maybe they just ignore it. Divorce is a rant for another time.]
In the middle lean to conservative and has some liberal views.
Working for target during the change, was fired from first job for the change "illegal in California" a coworker gave him he'll but management took care of it.
[Fricken People's Republic of Kalifornia, full of libtard hipocrites, yet another rant for another time...]
It was hard to find a job because paperwork wasn't done. Homeless for 18 months, family wouldn't even help. In most of the country he could legally be fired for it. Housing, employers and even doctors can refuse service.
[We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.]
The change has helped immensely. He wanted to Change or die. It was that depressing. "rock bottom"
There are still challenges. At the end of the day he has never been happier in his life. The only moment of regret was the morning of the chest surgery, he looked at himself and decided to go for it. Lost all sensation in his nipples. That's a good trade for going shirtless at a beach.
Health concerns or risks throughout the process? Testosterone deteriorates the ovaries, and he has no money to afford removing them or fixing the cancer. Testosterone increases risk of stroke and heart attack. Fat and muscle and even the head changes shape. One transgender person is killed everyday just for being transgender. 200 worldwide, half in USA were murdered for being transgender. Bathrooms are very dangerous. Personal safety is the biggest problem.
[Somebody shood shoot the bastards that kill people for being different. Yeah, it puts me on the same level as them, but damn. People like that should just be shot. Give all the transgender people guns and permission to shoot any bastard that messes with them.]
Male to female has more options on genetal surgeries. It's not easy to create what isn't there. Can have a real small fully functional, or any size you want but it doesn't work. Lots of f 2m don't want to be guinea pigs for new tech.
The response of the male dating a m2f is usually to kill the woman.
['ZOMG I might be gay! I gotta kill the guy I slept with!' --Dumbass, on sexual insecurities--]
Self defense isn't too important, he focuses more on laying low and mediation. Wants to find more passive or peaceful ends.
[Noble, but sometimes words don't count. You can't reason with a moron after all.]
Gender stereotyping. It's important to know that there are differences it's not just acting that way because they want to but because that's how they are wired. There are a lot of things that society tells us are bad.
People see them together. Ed acts like a guy and his girlfriend acts like a girl. They are very normal relationship, "oh my god you're such a guy!"
Best experience so far having done the change? So many, but brothers sticking by through the entire thing was the best. But every time he does a presentation people come out knowing more and being more accepting.
[Kind of ties into the Women in the workplace thing. There are fundamental differences in men and women, making them better suited to different things. I won't start a flame war by saying much more, but, there are differences, and they have an affect on societial norms]
Things to think about, what do you think about transgender kids. There are entire generations of kids growing up confused about what they want to be. What do you have in your own life that you could do that you don't because you're scared?
[I think a lot of kids are confused because somebody effed up. I was really confused about algebra until somebody showed me what's up. If it wasn't for my parents doing (in my opinion) a decent job of raising me, I would probably be a confused young person. But I had guidance. Other kids, they aren't so lucky. What's sad is that a lack of guidance is the norm now-a-days.]
Think about what your authentic self means, and what do you have to do to get there. Challenge yourself to look at things differently outside of your own experiences.
[My authentic self... In all honesty I wanna do something important. Not to feel important, but to do something that has meaning to somebody else. I'm not sure what that means, but I'm hoping I can find it by becoming a forensic accountant and catching the bastards that cheat Taxpayers out of their money.]
Documantary. Transgeneration
Has it affected your relationships in school? Friends left. Other people came closer. Many people were very supportive. Professors were harder to work with. Especially with the name.
[Kind of makes me wonder just how supportive my friends are...]
How did you pay for it? Raised 1/3 himself and a nice guy gave him a loan for the rest of the mesectamy
The best genetal doctor costs 50k
Girlfriend met him before he changed. She was very accepting about the change. "Hybrid set of parts down there right now"
Been together for 2 years. This may. Her dad had a huge freakout. He eventually decided it was ok. Lots of tech for making babies if he decides to have kids.
[I think its great that somebody can be so understanding, maybe there is hope for the world and society]
Parents are divorced. Mom didn't want Ed to mess up her life, but she has come to accept it. Hasn't seen dad in over a decade till spring break. Ed is the only kid that looks like his father.
[One of the millions of kids who are victim to divorced parents. That angers me, divorces. Parents act like it doesn't affect the kids, or maybe they just ignore it. Divorce is a rant for another time.]
In the middle lean to conservative and has some liberal views.
Working for target during the change, was fired from first job for the change "illegal in California" a coworker gave him he'll but management took care of it.
[Fricken People's Republic of Kalifornia, full of libtard hipocrites, yet another rant for another time...]
It was hard to find a job because paperwork wasn't done. Homeless for 18 months, family wouldn't even help. In most of the country he could legally be fired for it. Housing, employers and even doctors can refuse service.
[We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.]
The change has helped immensely. He wanted to Change or die. It was that depressing. "rock bottom"
There are still challenges. At the end of the day he has never been happier in his life. The only moment of regret was the morning of the chest surgery, he looked at himself and decided to go for it. Lost all sensation in his nipples. That's a good trade for going shirtless at a beach.
Health concerns or risks throughout the process? Testosterone deteriorates the ovaries, and he has no money to afford removing them or fixing the cancer. Testosterone increases risk of stroke and heart attack. Fat and muscle and even the head changes shape. One transgender person is killed everyday just for being transgender. 200 worldwide, half in USA were murdered for being transgender. Bathrooms are very dangerous. Personal safety is the biggest problem.
[Somebody shood shoot the bastards that kill people for being different. Yeah, it puts me on the same level as them, but damn. People like that should just be shot. Give all the transgender people guns and permission to shoot any bastard that messes with them.]
Male to female has more options on genetal surgeries. It's not easy to create what isn't there. Can have a real small fully functional, or any size you want but it doesn't work. Lots of f 2m don't want to be guinea pigs for new tech.
The response of the male dating a m2f is usually to kill the woman.
['ZOMG I might be gay! I gotta kill the guy I slept with!' --Dumbass, on sexual insecurities--]
Self defense isn't too important, he focuses more on laying low and mediation. Wants to find more passive or peaceful ends.
[Noble, but sometimes words don't count. You can't reason with a moron after all.]
Gender stereotyping. It's important to know that there are differences it's not just acting that way because they want to but because that's how they are wired. There are a lot of things that society tells us are bad.
People see them together. Ed acts like a guy and his girlfriend acts like a girl. They are very normal relationship, "oh my god you're such a guy!"
Best experience so far having done the change? So many, but brothers sticking by through the entire thing was the best. But every time he does a presentation people come out knowing more and being more accepting.
[Kind of ties into the Women in the workplace thing. There are fundamental differences in men and women, making them better suited to different things. I won't start a flame war by saying much more, but, there are differences, and they have an affect on societial norms]
Things to think about, what do you think about transgender kids. There are entire generations of kids growing up confused about what they want to be. What do you have in your own life that you could do that you don't because you're scared?
[I think a lot of kids are confused because somebody effed up. I was really confused about algebra until somebody showed me what's up. If it wasn't for my parents doing (in my opinion) a decent job of raising me, I would probably be a confused young person. But I had guidance. Other kids, they aren't so lucky. What's sad is that a lack of guidance is the norm now-a-days.]
Think about what your authentic self means, and what do you have to do to get there. Challenge yourself to look at things differently outside of your own experiences.
[My authentic self... In all honesty I wanna do something important. Not to feel important, but to do something that has meaning to somebody else. I'm not sure what that means, but I'm hoping I can find it by becoming a forensic accountant and catching the bastards that cheat Taxpayers out of their money.]
Monday, February 28, 2011
People watching and questions from kim
Day 7 the bargain handshaking is kind of cool. "man watching" wow, high status feet placed on low status heads. the 'OK' symbol isn't OK in
all places. anti-clockwise for crazy, clockwise for intelligent. horns sign in Italy, the finger is an ancient roman symbol. two fingers, "v"
for victory but backwards, is obscene. head tossing (yes) is no, head shake is yes. It is a two mile stretch, when
the switch is made. because that's where Romans stopped. in India the head is wobbled from side to side for yes. like our maybe thumbs up for good, thumbs down for bad. thumbs up was spare the man, thumbs
down was kill. that was wrong. they actually hid their thumbs for spare them, and stabbed down with their thumbs
for kill him. in Australia there is a people that refrain from speaking for months to mourn the
death of a tribesman. instead of wearing black. gesticulation, unconscious hand movements. beating the air in time is a universal gesticulation. "da da, dada, da da" raised
forefinger, beating their heads with a club. palm down gesture, pat the audience
to calm them down. hand chop to cut through the argument with a sharp blade.
these hand signals even happen when talking on the phone. chimps chewing their nails. i chuckle. a tight lip and lowered eyebrows are for aggressive action. tight lips for
aggressive, lowered eyebrows for protection from retaliation. the staring eye, threatening. (the evil eye) if you could out stare it you were
safe. as they become afraid, their mouths are pulled back, showing the teeth. it looks
a lot like a smile. smiling is a human expression that comes from the fear face.
the fear face is sometimes used as an anti aggression expression, i am not
aggressive to i am friendly. it is difficult to fake a smile. reminds me of my visit to watford city. the psychology class. we often suppress our nonverbal communications because we want to hide our
intentions or feelings. face touching is a sign of lying, and hand shrug is done when lying as well,
eyes blink and close more often than normal. blog is due next week. not another due till the 29th of march, after we meet
again.
===end notes====
The people watching was pretty cool, I learned some things about actions.
The best part of class was listening to the dialogue between Kara and Kim.
It is interesting the differing opinions on culture and what it means to
different people.
What I know of my culture is that somebody who had enough money and was
educated came to North Dakota.
Other than that one fact, my entire family have been American citizens.
One problem that I see with America is the lack of solidarity between the people.
America is full of
Spanish Americans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and
other elasticities.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I AM SORRY TO INFORM YOU BUT WE ARE ALL AMERICANS FIRST. A
country cannot stand strong if it's people are too worried about where they are
from and how they came to be where they are now.
No matter what happened in the past we need to keep both eyes on what's
now.
Sure, it is important to know that a train went by 15 minutes ago, but it is even
more important to remember that another train is coming, and you are standing on
the tracks.
Remember where you came from, but pay close attention to what is happening now.
Question 1: (insert hypothetical situation about visiting a foreign country and
learning its language here) Most of my friends are too
self conscious to practice on an everyday basis. I certainly try, I speak mandarin
to Whitney almost every day. She doesn't though.
Question 2: Tattoos mean different things to different people. They are like
necklaces. Some people have them because they have a special meaning.
Some people wear them because they are cool. Others wear them under their shirt
because they have no need to let everybody know, and others wear theirs
outside the shirt because they want others to see it and appreciate it. The only
thing tattoos say about people that have them is that they are not afraid
to commit to a permanent change.
Question 3: Language classes should be mandatory for schools. This wouldn't
compromise other cultures because learning another language would help keep that
culture alive. It isn't so important to be bilingual as it is exercise for the
mind. Students that learn a different language do better in all other classes.
Question 4: Languages disappear because people learn newer easier or more common
languages. If there is a room full of Spaniards, then you need to learn Spanish.
Kind of like the "When in Rome..." saying. When a group of people move in
(read: Invade or colonize) when the people in power say "this is the language"
then said language becomes what people speak. We can preserve languages by
putting them into a database and hoping that people want to keep using them.
From a societal standpoint, it doesn't make much sense to have more than one
language in the world. Just think about how much more efficiently information
would be
passed between people, and how many misunderstandings would be avoided.
Question 4: YES we should have an official language that is used for legal
purposes (laws, licenses, taxes, and signs) The way laws are written in the US
are not friendly to
translation. And it is a waste of time and ink putting two languages on every
damned form, and every damned phone call to a government agency. They can certainly speak it, and
use it in their lives, but when it comes to government involvement, ENGLISH ONLY.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday that represents the beginning of a Jewish year. It takes place in either late September or early October and is unique in that it is actually two consecutive days.
The idea behind it is that God will decide who lives and who dies in the following year, and must atone for their sins so they will have a healthy year. It is a time of self reflection for Jews. They examine themselves and try to right any wrongs they may have committed in the past year. They also strive to find how they can be better in the next year.
In a way, it is a time to atone for their sins and pray for forgiveness so they do not have to suffer the same fate as the sinners. Rosh Hashanah is closely tied to Yom Kippur which takes place ten days after. Both of the holidays are about repentance and making yourself right with God.
In my opinion, everybody should have a holiday similar to this one. It is a time when people can ask each other for forgiveness without having to feel funny about it. Part of the holiday is about forgiving those who have done you wrong. One of the rules is that a person must ask forgiveness for a wrongdoing three times if the first apology is not accepted, and apologies must be accepted and the situation mended unless the wrongdoing permanently harms someone. For example:
Situation 1: Person A steals a loaf of bread from person B. Person A asks for forgiveness, and person B accepts the apology, because a loaf of bread has very little meaning in the great scheme of things.
Situation 2: Person A kills a member of person B’s family. Person A asks for forgiveness, it is then up person B to decide whether to accept the apology or not. However, if person B does not accept the apology, person A will ask twice more.
The purpose of this holiday is not just about ASKING for forgiveness, but also FORGIVING others of their wrong doings. In Jewish faith, God is merciful, loving, and forgiving. To forgive is to be closer to God.
People who have been around longer than I...
DAY 6
Lauren Yellowbird, born in white shield on ft berth old reservation. medicine horse is his 'indian' name. given to him when he graduated high school. it is of great importance. (like a barmitsfuh)
Works at ft union as a park ranger. people from all over the world visit, and he has a very short time to give them as much information as possible to help them interpret the culture.
his background, he is a descendant of Son of the Star. arikara chief. a very distinguished man. He is one man Lauren admires in all of history. Bear's teeth is on his fathers side, lauren studied culture and anthropology. bear's teeth was a very powerful medicine man. dThese are two main figures that he is tied to. the medicine lodge had a lot of things there, they were very spiritual people. He also is Part hidatsa, some people don't like to claim a certain heritage.
the arikara people have lived in the dakotas for over 750 years. ONe thing they are famous for is in the 1800's little big horn battle. arikara was the main fighting/scouting force for custer. sometimes arikara catch flak for helping custer. other tribes will come up to arikara and call them 'traitors' two things remember growing up, mother corn and bloody knife. bloody knife was a scout. they had a lot of back and forth with the sioux. their village was attacked over 600 times over 6 years. the hate was there. based on this information, custer was one of the people that wanted these two groups to come together peacefully. He got them together to work out a peace treaty. the arikara and sioux were ready to help. It was said that an arikara woman had lost her son, she wanted to know what happened to her son. once the peace was attained, she could find out more about her son.
The arikara went to ft lincoln, son of the star told them, "what we will do today will be hard, the enemy will send our hearts to the ground. Be strong, if you are strong, we will have peace." They settled down, then the lakota came.
The lakota have the warriors lead, they are very fierce. They were going to test the arikara on that day, the war leaders and their wives were holding scalps, and the arikara woman saw her sons face on the stick and she fainted. then they rubbed the face in their 'faces' and started a very volatile situation. the chiefs managed to settle this down.
at that point there were only 1500 people who were arikara. those people were most likely family. everything settled down when tom custer, (general custer's brother) and he brought a pipe, and the arikara puffed and passed to the, and the second man puffed and was shot. the arikara warriors stood up and were ready to fight. nobody came forward for a long time. it was a different band of sioux, just one member, and the peace talks broke right there. the scouts were away from the main tribe, and they would bring their wives and family. and the women of the scouts were molested by the drunken white soldiers.
A woman who came there with her two kids after her family was wiped out. she would go to where the soldiers were cooking and dug through the garbage to feed her kids. some soldiers got in trouble because they dumped boiling water over her.
white shield has a cemetery dedicated to scouts. that stuff is fading. the younger people aren't understanding or paying attention. society is polluting the old ways. it bothers lauren from a historians point of view, and also as a veteran (desert storm) he also followed a lot of spiritual ways. It is important to remember who we are, and what we care to perpetuate to our descendants.
he grew up seeing some of his own people walking the streets drunk, and going into the store without an adult was unpleasant. He grew very bitter, he didn't like whit people. It took a long time to get over it. He had to learn how to become together with another race. it is very easy to become prejudiced when you are among your own people.
[This reminds me of a somewhat racist routine done by Chris Rock (if I remember right, the guy from the Rush Hour series) he was talking about how (in worse words) African Americans are racist against each other. He was talking about how 'gangsters' use the N word. It was very funny, yet poignant skit.]
they had a tour group of little kids at fort union from a montana school. (3rd graders) the students came, you always get rambunctious kids. there were two little indian girls among them. and a little boy ran around yelling "kill all the indians" and the little girls were very afraid. the teacher wouldn't do anything to stop it. there is still a lot to do.
[In grade school we played cowboys and indians, then that wasn't allowed, so we played cops and robbers. After that was outlawed, we played boys chase girls. Kids like to chase each other and pretend to be fighting. It hones the survival skills, and kids will use things they learn about to 'reinact' as play. I think back on the thanksgiving celebration in kindergarten. The project was to make a vest and hat out of some paper grocery bags. Half the class was assigned to be pilgrims, the other indians. Then, as kids usually do, we started to play our parts. Then we see old western movies, or COPS, and start copying it. Thats what people do, COPY]
[That could be a segway to last weeks lesson on hate. However strong my feelings are that hate is not a learned emotion, the way hate is expressed, and who or what it is felt toward is learned.]
they did a 2 week training with the military, they went and did a support operation o pine ridge reservation. built homes through the DOD and Department of interior. everybody was happy and waving while they were working on this stuff. one lakota guy was driving and a slodier waved at him and the lakota man flipped the bird. and all the sudden the soldiers thought they were in trouble "look what they do to us" the man was bitter because his company didn't get the bid to build the houses.
last lecture to university was indiana university to a bunch of PhD's. A couple things that made an impact on lauren's life
1) back in '02 he was in standby to go to afghanistan. they were getting ready to do some training in the mountains. like any place, before you go, you get briefed. he mentioned that there were historic sites in the training area, and they couldn't just dig anywhere. when they started setting up he heard one gentleman walk by and he said the most offensive things. he said "idk why the F these guys care. Is pocahontus going to come to life" lauren said "why don't you shut up about indian people" he stopped and said "hey, man, I'm not a racist." and later on he looked at his buddy (motions to the ground lol) and the buddy says, "i guess these areas are indian burial sites" as soon as that was said to me, people asked why anybody cares about his stuff. "it shouldn't be a problem" they said it is in the past. lauren didn't know anything about it but defended it anyway. he said "maybe you're right" and they said "you need to move on because it's in the past" and lauren said "the twin towers is in the past. let's move on." and the reply was "we cant do that" and how do they know that some of the families from this tribe could be fighting in afghanistan right now. the indians have the highest rate of serving military members. they don't think about all of the things that native americans do for the country.
[It's like having a training op on what was once Arlington Cemetery. 700 years from now. Imagine if the US ceases to exist, and some other government is instituted and the "American" people are few in number and have all but lost their culture. Now this government starts holding training missions on the burial site for our most honored warriors. Granted, Americans don't seem to have the respect for soldiers like the Native Americans did (and Americans need to remember who to thank for apple pie and baseball) And now these people are digging trenches and foxholes over the remains of those who we held in the highest esteem.]
during desert storm, when the military were coming home. his sister avoided the political aspect. she got a bunch of people together in bismark to support the native troops, and she introduced lauren to a lakota man who was a korean veteran who was playing a role in the support project. He said "the mechanized infantry brother and the airborne brother saw each other in the staging area. and they found each other." he invited lauren to be there for the brothers' homecoming, but he couldn't make it. laurent sister said when they arrived, his sister assembled all the people from the tribes and brought a traditional drum, and as soon as the soldiers started coming off, they sand a welcome home song. everybody got quiet because they hadn't seen this stuff before. a white soldier stood with his family and watched. and as everything got over they started leaving, that family said that was interesting "i wish something like that would happen for me" and the old man stopped that kid. it is the native way to do that, and they will do these things because we're supposed to. now we will do it for you. and the mother didn't know what to do. they sang for that guy, and gave his mother a shawl.
[Wow... Just... Wow... It is absolutely wonderful to hear that story. Native Americans relied on their hunters and their warriors for survival. If their warriors were not strong enough, then the tribe would fail. For all of the culture that was taken away, the respect for warriors is still strong. With Native Americans having the highest percentage of serving militarymen(women), that love for being a strong and loyal warrior is still there. And the respect for those that are strong and loyal warriors still exists.]
"i do get asked a lot about the fighting sioux name. truthfully the best people to ask are the sioux people. I believe that these guys want to honor them. the problem is that they push it on them. democracy and respect go out right there."
[They should change the name to the Pillaging Norskmen. But seriously, I don't think it was a big deal untill some guy with a whole lot of money said it was, and then some big association decided to take up the fight. Just let it be... If the Native people don't like it, then they will say something and it can go from there. But there is no reason for some big organization that doesn't even come from this area to start saying what can and cant happen. /end rant]
what helped you not dislike the white poeple?
"you guys aint all alike. and that's a shock to me, but, i was in a class with a guy who was very outgoing. he'd come over and sit and talk, he'd have lauren join them for basketball and stuff like that. This was a culture shock moment for him." " i was very guarded, at one point he was driving his car and he heard somebody throwing snowballs at his car, he thought they were being racist, it pissed him off. and here it was the guy from the class. it was weird."
their culture is fading. and he has nieces and nephews who are gang members. they wouldnt come in here because we are assembled here. he has to hear them complain about every other race. there is so much there that can teach us many things, we cannot lose this culture.
the language music, ceremonies, ediquitte repect visions of leaders. these all need to be kept alive. it is not easy, because a lot of the people can't speak their language. a lot of what they do is adopted by the lakota. vision quests. find somebody powerful like that.
[I've heard of those vision quests before. I think that a number of different cultures have a variation of a vision quest. Inner meditation, the answer to anything can be found if one can look inward. Its pretty heavy stuff, pretty cool stuff.]
Lauren Yellowbird, born in white shield on ft berth old reservation. medicine horse is his 'indian' name. given to him when he graduated high school. it is of great importance. (like a barmitsfuh)
Works at ft union as a park ranger. people from all over the world visit, and he has a very short time to give them as much information as possible to help them interpret the culture.
his background, he is a descendant of Son of the Star. arikara chief. a very distinguished man. He is one man Lauren admires in all of history. Bear's teeth is on his fathers side, lauren studied culture and anthropology. bear's teeth was a very powerful medicine man. dThese are two main figures that he is tied to. the medicine lodge had a lot of things there, they were very spiritual people. He also is Part hidatsa, some people don't like to claim a certain heritage.
the arikara people have lived in the dakotas for over 750 years. ONe thing they are famous for is in the 1800's little big horn battle. arikara was the main fighting/scouting force for custer. sometimes arikara catch flak for helping custer. other tribes will come up to arikara and call them 'traitors' two things remember growing up, mother corn and bloody knife. bloody knife was a scout. they had a lot of back and forth with the sioux. their village was attacked over 600 times over 6 years. the hate was there. based on this information, custer was one of the people that wanted these two groups to come together peacefully. He got them together to work out a peace treaty. the arikara and sioux were ready to help. It was said that an arikara woman had lost her son, she wanted to know what happened to her son. once the peace was attained, she could find out more about her son.
The arikara went to ft lincoln, son of the star told them, "what we will do today will be hard, the enemy will send our hearts to the ground. Be strong, if you are strong, we will have peace." They settled down, then the lakota came.
The lakota have the warriors lead, they are very fierce. They were going to test the arikara on that day, the war leaders and their wives were holding scalps, and the arikara woman saw her sons face on the stick and she fainted. then they rubbed the face in their 'faces' and started a very volatile situation. the chiefs managed to settle this down.
at that point there were only 1500 people who were arikara. those people were most likely family. everything settled down when tom custer, (general custer's brother) and he brought a pipe, and the arikara puffed and passed to the, and the second man puffed and was shot. the arikara warriors stood up and were ready to fight. nobody came forward for a long time. it was a different band of sioux, just one member, and the peace talks broke right there. the scouts were away from the main tribe, and they would bring their wives and family. and the women of the scouts were molested by the drunken white soldiers.
A woman who came there with her two kids after her family was wiped out. she would go to where the soldiers were cooking and dug through the garbage to feed her kids. some soldiers got in trouble because they dumped boiling water over her.
white shield has a cemetery dedicated to scouts. that stuff is fading. the younger people aren't understanding or paying attention. society is polluting the old ways. it bothers lauren from a historians point of view, and also as a veteran (desert storm) he also followed a lot of spiritual ways. It is important to remember who we are, and what we care to perpetuate to our descendants.
he grew up seeing some of his own people walking the streets drunk, and going into the store without an adult was unpleasant. He grew very bitter, he didn't like whit people. It took a long time to get over it. He had to learn how to become together with another race. it is very easy to become prejudiced when you are among your own people.
[This reminds me of a somewhat racist routine done by Chris Rock (if I remember right, the guy from the Rush Hour series) he was talking about how (in worse words) African Americans are racist against each other. He was talking about how 'gangsters' use the N word. It was very funny, yet poignant skit.]
they had a tour group of little kids at fort union from a montana school. (3rd graders) the students came, you always get rambunctious kids. there were two little indian girls among them. and a little boy ran around yelling "kill all the indians" and the little girls were very afraid. the teacher wouldn't do anything to stop it. there is still a lot to do.
[In grade school we played cowboys and indians, then that wasn't allowed, so we played cops and robbers. After that was outlawed, we played boys chase girls. Kids like to chase each other and pretend to be fighting. It hones the survival skills, and kids will use things they learn about to 'reinact' as play. I think back on the thanksgiving celebration in kindergarten. The project was to make a vest and hat out of some paper grocery bags. Half the class was assigned to be pilgrims, the other indians. Then, as kids usually do, we started to play our parts. Then we see old western movies, or COPS, and start copying it. Thats what people do, COPY]
[That could be a segway to last weeks lesson on hate. However strong my feelings are that hate is not a learned emotion, the way hate is expressed, and who or what it is felt toward is learned.]
they did a 2 week training with the military, they went and did a support operation o pine ridge reservation. built homes through the DOD and Department of interior. everybody was happy and waving while they were working on this stuff. one lakota guy was driving and a slodier waved at him and the lakota man flipped the bird. and all the sudden the soldiers thought they were in trouble "look what they do to us" the man was bitter because his company didn't get the bid to build the houses.
last lecture to university was indiana university to a bunch of PhD's. A couple things that made an impact on lauren's life
1) back in '02 he was in standby to go to afghanistan. they were getting ready to do some training in the mountains. like any place, before you go, you get briefed. he mentioned that there were historic sites in the training area, and they couldn't just dig anywhere. when they started setting up he heard one gentleman walk by and he said the most offensive things. he said "idk why the F these guys care. Is pocahontus going to come to life" lauren said "why don't you shut up about indian people" he stopped and said "hey, man, I'm not a racist." and later on he looked at his buddy (motions to the ground lol) and the buddy says, "i guess these areas are indian burial sites" as soon as that was said to me, people asked why anybody cares about his stuff. "it shouldn't be a problem" they said it is in the past. lauren didn't know anything about it but defended it anyway. he said "maybe you're right" and they said "you need to move on because it's in the past" and lauren said "the twin towers is in the past. let's move on." and the reply was "we cant do that" and how do they know that some of the families from this tribe could be fighting in afghanistan right now. the indians have the highest rate of serving military members. they don't think about all of the things that native americans do for the country.
[It's like having a training op on what was once Arlington Cemetery. 700 years from now. Imagine if the US ceases to exist, and some other government is instituted and the "American" people are few in number and have all but lost their culture. Now this government starts holding training missions on the burial site for our most honored warriors. Granted, Americans don't seem to have the respect for soldiers like the Native Americans did (and Americans need to remember who to thank for apple pie and baseball) And now these people are digging trenches and foxholes over the remains of those who we held in the highest esteem.]
during desert storm, when the military were coming home. his sister avoided the political aspect. she got a bunch of people together in bismark to support the native troops, and she introduced lauren to a lakota man who was a korean veteran who was playing a role in the support project. He said "the mechanized infantry brother and the airborne brother saw each other in the staging area. and they found each other." he invited lauren to be there for the brothers' homecoming, but he couldn't make it. laurent sister said when they arrived, his sister assembled all the people from the tribes and brought a traditional drum, and as soon as the soldiers started coming off, they sand a welcome home song. everybody got quiet because they hadn't seen this stuff before. a white soldier stood with his family and watched. and as everything got over they started leaving, that family said that was interesting "i wish something like that would happen for me" and the old man stopped that kid. it is the native way to do that, and they will do these things because we're supposed to. now we will do it for you. and the mother didn't know what to do. they sang for that guy, and gave his mother a shawl.
[Wow... Just... Wow... It is absolutely wonderful to hear that story. Native Americans relied on their hunters and their warriors for survival. If their warriors were not strong enough, then the tribe would fail. For all of the culture that was taken away, the respect for warriors is still strong. With Native Americans having the highest percentage of serving militarymen(women), that love for being a strong and loyal warrior is still there. And the respect for those that are strong and loyal warriors still exists.]
"i do get asked a lot about the fighting sioux name. truthfully the best people to ask are the sioux people. I believe that these guys want to honor them. the problem is that they push it on them. democracy and respect go out right there."
[They should change the name to the Pillaging Norskmen. But seriously, I don't think it was a big deal untill some guy with a whole lot of money said it was, and then some big association decided to take up the fight. Just let it be... If the Native people don't like it, then they will say something and it can go from there. But there is no reason for some big organization that doesn't even come from this area to start saying what can and cant happen. /end rant]
what helped you not dislike the white poeple?
"you guys aint all alike. and that's a shock to me, but, i was in a class with a guy who was very outgoing. he'd come over and sit and talk, he'd have lauren join them for basketball and stuff like that. This was a culture shock moment for him." " i was very guarded, at one point he was driving his car and he heard somebody throwing snowballs at his car, he thought they were being racist, it pissed him off. and here it was the guy from the class. it was weird."
their culture is fading. and he has nieces and nephews who are gang members. they wouldnt come in here because we are assembled here. he has to hear them complain about every other race. there is so much there that can teach us many things, we cannot lose this culture.
the language music, ceremonies, ediquitte repect visions of leaders. these all need to be kept alive. it is not easy, because a lot of the people can't speak their language. a lot of what they do is adopted by the lakota. vision quests. find somebody powerful like that.
[I've heard of those vision quests before. I think that a number of different cultures have a variation of a vision quest. Inner meditation, the answer to anything can be found if one can look inward. Its pretty heavy stuff, pretty cool stuff.]
Monday, February 14, 2011
Almost forgot that one...
DAY 5
[My format of notes with my 'reflections' inserted seems to be working rather well. I will continue with this format untill I find something better.]
a movie about hate crimes. caine and abel.
[jealousy, I really don't know if I spelled their names correctly]
matthew. died, probably a hate crime. sounds like a good guy. laremy wyoming? executed. he must have been homosexual? wrote fag on his door. people
[I always wonder about the sexual orientation of men who beat up gay people. These tough guys... "Hate is a strong word, but I really REALLY don't like..." them.]
reminds me of the video of drag queens beating the shit out of some tough guys who picked a fight. reminds me if the truck i saw in gelette wy. the "Whit pride truck" with "kc lights and the lift kit"
wyoming community is very close, but they have unpleasant feelings toward minorities.
[what small town doesn't? Even an outsider that looks exactly the same as the natives is looked upon with suspicion.]
"alone in a prairie, tied to a fence" this is the guy who was tied to a fence and left for dead. they [his family] had to sneak in to the hospital with police to avoid the reporters.
==end matt's story==
james an african american. He was a trumpet player. looks like he was a piano player as well. A gift of music. "self appointed advocate for those who were treated unfairly." he was a grandfather. she would point to the tv whenever his face was on it.
they couldn't ID the body, they had to use fingerprints. they beat him, he was disabled, and probably not as strong as he could have been. they tied him to a truck and dragged him for at least 2 miles, mostly on pavement. they swerved side to side, and elbows were ground down. he died when he hit a culvert. they stopped for a moment, and continued on. he died when was decapatad on the culvert. then they dumped his body in front of a black church.
this "intellectual" has a lot of stuff to say about how white people are the builders of society. they seem to like hitler. aryan nation.
it looks like this guy teaches classes!
[the director caught me in my unpleasant and aggressive feelings towards D-8@35 (why does blogger hyperlink my place holder for words not suited for a blog?) who think that they are better than everyone else. It's one thing to have pride in who you are, it's another thing to hate somebody else because you think you're better than them]
==end james's story==
Columbine shooting. It was so dramatic because they were so young. where does a a 17 year old mind come up with this plan?
[i can answer that: anger, hate, hopelessness, rage, and sorrow. What those boys did was terrible, but they were victims long before they committed those acts of hate. I know exactly what it is like to be the 'undesirable' in school. granted, by high school I had learned to deal with it. But one thing that people don't seem to get is that bad guys are smart. These kids were paying attention to the legislation that was on the table at the time, possibly allowing faculty to be armed (as long as they had a permit to do so). What is at fault? Not games, not guns, not music, and probably not even parent's. People are accountable for what they do. PERIOD.]
[However, the situation would not have presented itself if the a554a75 that gave these boys hell would have been taught some manners and discipline. And what is funny? It is always the sports players that give kids hell. Nothing against sports, but it seems to me that high school football players do more 54177y things to other students and get away with it. That is why high school kids shoot up the school. As for the 'God' question, the movie was very misleading. They didn't kill her because she was a christian, they just wanted her to know that she was going to die. They wanted her to know that THEY were the ones with the power.]
jocks were mad because they were beat by eric. so they hurt him. these "killers" were victims. "they were actually pretty nice, like they never wanted to hurt anyone"
===end columbine==
Go elton!!!!
oh god.... the racist again. Wait, did he grow a heart?!? ZOMG! He's against hate!. lol just shows how prejudiced "i" am. i guess the important lesson here is forgiveness? hate breeds hate, but I don't see how a "racist" can see the light and become a man who loves all people.
[It's like my mantra on physical confrontation. I can always go punch somebody later, but I cant unpunch somebody. I wonder what those people he brutalized think about his 'new leaf']
I wonder what happened to the people that killed james. GO ELTON! parents have the responsibility. hate is taught.
[Nature vs. Nurture: why are pitbulls so aggressive? Hate is not taught. (I may sound religious here but,) The bible says adam and eve consumed fruit from the tree of knowledge. Before that, we were blind to hate. It didn't exist, but now it does. The Greeks had a similar story, ever hear of Pandora and her box? The reason both of these cultures have an example of hate being 'released upon humanity' is because hate is a universal truth. unfortunately, it exists. Deal with it. In nature the strong survive and the weak die. If some majority hates a minority and decides to kill them all, then that minority darn well better be able to defend itself. Take Israel for example.]
[Israel is a shining example of how a minorty can successfully defend itself from hate (as long as it keeps its very strong friends around) Their fighting style shows a lot of that "never again" determination. all is fair in love and war, suffocating somebody with love doesnt help you if they have a gun to your head. They have to be killed, that is all there is to it.]
once again i think of the 10 finger thing.
who's values will we teach? even the racists have values. they just don't include compassion and love.
the holocaust. I seem to remember the saudi prime minister telling his people that it didn't happen.
[which reminds me of a quote of Eisenhower, "(order) take lots of pictures, because 10, 20, 50, or 100 years from now, some bastard will say this never happened."
religion has caused more deaths than anything. Reminds me of bill meher's religiolous, god doesn't hate? I recall it saying in the bible, that god hates sin.
"hate is a strong word, but I really really really don't like you" --the lyrics to a song by some alternative band. I cant remember.
ZOMG its the westboro bastard! lol, I remember that guy (bowling for columbine, capitalism a love story) talking the westboro guy into the "sodomobile" lol, his face was priceless.
parents are not spending very much time with their children. and the older generation bitches about us. lol.
debrief our children every day. thats a good idea.
[To say nothing is to say it is OK]
"you must be the change you want to see in the world" --ghandi
we must fix our "isms" racism, sexism, ORGANISM. we are living, there for hate exists.
I remember an interview with the westboro guys kid. they asked him what a fag was, he didn't know. he just knew that he hated them. it was a good interview.
woah woah woah, is this a stand off against the westboro peeps? LOL, his face!!!!
Its the same one! from the angels, the freedom riders, and the mike guy who hates guns.
"othering" almost like the redheaded guy that grouped everyone else as others, and his way was the right way. discrimination.
do you need to have the power to opress to be racist?
what if james was a white guy?
what if Matt was straight?
[I sure as heck dont want my murder investigation to be put on a backburner because somebody of a minority race was killed by somebody of a majority race....]
[My format of notes with my 'reflections' inserted seems to be working rather well. I will continue with this format untill I find something better.]
a movie about hate crimes. caine and abel.
[jealousy, I really don't know if I spelled their names correctly]
matthew. died, probably a hate crime. sounds like a good guy. laremy wyoming? executed. he must have been homosexual? wrote fag on his door. people
[I always wonder about the sexual orientation of men who beat up gay people. These tough guys... "Hate is a strong word, but I really REALLY don't like..." them.]
reminds me of the video of drag queens beating the shit out of some tough guys who picked a fight. reminds me if the truck i saw in gelette wy. the "Whit pride truck" with "kc lights and the lift kit"
wyoming community is very close, but they have unpleasant feelings toward minorities.
[what small town doesn't? Even an outsider that looks exactly the same as the natives is looked upon with suspicion.]
"alone in a prairie, tied to a fence" this is the guy who was tied to a fence and left for dead. they [his family] had to sneak in to the hospital with police to avoid the reporters.
==end matt's story==
james an african american. He was a trumpet player. looks like he was a piano player as well. A gift of music. "self appointed advocate for those who were treated unfairly." he was a grandfather. she would point to the tv whenever his face was on it.
they couldn't ID the body, they had to use fingerprints. they beat him, he was disabled, and probably not as strong as he could have been. they tied him to a truck and dragged him for at least 2 miles, mostly on pavement. they swerved side to side, and elbows were ground down. he died when he hit a culvert. they stopped for a moment, and continued on. he died when was decapatad on the culvert. then they dumped his body in front of a black church.
this "intellectual" has a lot of stuff to say about how white people are the builders of society. they seem to like hitler. aryan nation.
it looks like this guy teaches classes!
[the director caught me in my unpleasant and aggressive feelings towards D-8@35 (why does blogger hyperlink my place holder for words not suited for a blog?) who think that they are better than everyone else. It's one thing to have pride in who you are, it's another thing to hate somebody else because you think you're better than them]
==end james's story==
Columbine shooting. It was so dramatic because they were so young. where does a a 17 year old mind come up with this plan?
[i can answer that: anger, hate, hopelessness, rage, and sorrow. What those boys did was terrible, but they were victims long before they committed those acts of hate. I know exactly what it is like to be the 'undesirable' in school. granted, by high school I had learned to deal with it. But one thing that people don't seem to get is that bad guys are smart. These kids were paying attention to the legislation that was on the table at the time, possibly allowing faculty to be armed (as long as they had a permit to do so). What is at fault? Not games, not guns, not music, and probably not even parent's. People are accountable for what they do. PERIOD.]
[However, the situation would not have presented itself if the a554a75 that gave these boys hell would have been taught some manners and discipline. And what is funny? It is always the sports players that give kids hell. Nothing against sports, but it seems to me that high school football players do more 54177y things to other students and get away with it. That is why high school kids shoot up the school. As for the 'God' question, the movie was very misleading. They didn't kill her because she was a christian, they just wanted her to know that she was going to die. They wanted her to know that THEY were the ones with the power.]
jocks were mad because they were beat by eric. so they hurt him. these "killers" were victims. "they were actually pretty nice, like they never wanted to hurt anyone"
===end columbine==
Go elton!!!!
oh god.... the racist again. Wait, did he grow a heart?!? ZOMG! He's against hate!. lol just shows how prejudiced "i" am. i guess the important lesson here is forgiveness? hate breeds hate, but I don't see how a "racist" can see the light and become a man who loves all people.
[It's like my mantra on physical confrontation. I can always go punch somebody later, but I cant unpunch somebody. I wonder what those people he brutalized think about his 'new leaf']
I wonder what happened to the people that killed james. GO ELTON! parents have the responsibility. hate is taught.
[Nature vs. Nurture: why are pitbulls so aggressive? Hate is not taught. (I may sound religious here but,) The bible says adam and eve consumed fruit from the tree of knowledge. Before that, we were blind to hate. It didn't exist, but now it does. The Greeks had a similar story, ever hear of Pandora and her box? The reason both of these cultures have an example of hate being 'released upon humanity' is because hate is a universal truth. unfortunately, it exists. Deal with it. In nature the strong survive and the weak die. If some majority hates a minority and decides to kill them all, then that minority darn well better be able to defend itself. Take Israel for example.]
[Israel is a shining example of how a minorty can successfully defend itself from hate (as long as it keeps its very strong friends around) Their fighting style shows a lot of that "never again" determination. all is fair in love and war, suffocating somebody with love doesnt help you if they have a gun to your head. They have to be killed, that is all there is to it.]
once again i think of the 10 finger thing.
who's values will we teach? even the racists have values. they just don't include compassion and love.
the holocaust. I seem to remember the saudi prime minister telling his people that it didn't happen.
[which reminds me of a quote of Eisenhower, "(order) take lots of pictures, because 10, 20, 50, or 100 years from now, some bastard will say this never happened."
religion has caused more deaths than anything. Reminds me of bill meher's religiolous, god doesn't hate? I recall it saying in the bible, that god hates sin.
"hate is a strong word, but I really really really don't like you" --the lyrics to a song by some alternative band. I cant remember.
ZOMG its the westboro bastard! lol, I remember that guy (bowling for columbine, capitalism a love story) talking the westboro guy into the "sodomobile" lol, his face was priceless.
parents are not spending very much time with their children. and the older generation bitches about us. lol.
debrief our children every day. thats a good idea.
[To say nothing is to say it is OK]
"you must be the change you want to see in the world" --ghandi
we must fix our "isms" racism, sexism, ORGANISM. we are living, there for hate exists.
I remember an interview with the westboro guys kid. they asked him what a fag was, he didn't know. he just knew that he hated them. it was a good interview.
woah woah woah, is this a stand off against the westboro peeps? LOL, his face!!!!
Its the same one! from the angels, the freedom riders, and the mike guy who hates guns.
"othering" almost like the redheaded guy that grouped everyone else as others, and his way was the right way. discrimination.
do you need to have the power to opress to be racist?
what if james was a white guy?
what if Matt was straight?
[I sure as heck dont want my murder investigation to be put on a backburner because somebody of a minority race was killed by somebody of a majority race....]
Monday, February 7, 2011
That A5$4A7!!!!!!!!!11one!!!one11! EXCLAMATION?!!1
So I get into my dad's truck today and see, as I'm late for a bio test, that some {insert very foul name} stole the stereo. The locks don't work, and the dang thing wont start without a jumper. But I called the cops, and waited for like 40 minutes and filed a report. I then followed the footprints to behind dominoes.
The cop said these were the same prints that stole something from another place the same night.
After that I decided to get my stuff from Jayson's (my best friends) house. The same cop that I talked to was there, and the land lady's chevy avalanche was gone! That {insert foul language, dissing that [more foul tongue]'s mother} stole here truck and one of the other tenants stereo!
So I'm like, "Gawd Die-aym!" and start following the prints again. I get to a car behind job service and note that they stopped there. Then I follow them right to the stolen truck!
I'm not lucky enough to be the first one there though, the cop arrived minutes before I did, but I offered the land lady my aid and thoughts (getting stuff stolen is a big deal, and she's such a nice lady) and told the officer about the other car the prints went to.
Then I asked if I could follow more prints, and he siad "sure, just call me if you find anything else." so I did, and I did, and I did. About a block away from the truck, I found her dish network thing that was missing from the truck. the prints led right up to it. So I called the cop again, and learned that they tried to break into the car I told him about.
I searched the entire main street area and I'm pretty sure the [Worse words] frequents Buster's bar. An eyewitness says the people who stole the truck were a tall man with long blond hair, and a fat man with long brown hair.
The footsteps put him at about my height (six-two) and about a size 13 shoe.
My dad says he knows a guy that fits that description, who he has had trouble with in the past (could there be more to the story?) and says the guys lives like a block away, and is missing his front teeth.
Darn, I was kind of hoping I could bust them out myself. (THAT WAS A JOKE! Relax, I have faith that Willistons Finest will get to the bottom of it and bring justice upon that [do I really need to say it])
Wow, I feel much better now that I got that off my chest. I hope I dont get in trouble for sharing it though. It could be a big NSA sting operation to weed out terrorist cells in Lebanon.
The cop said these were the same prints that stole something from another place the same night.
After that I decided to get my stuff from Jayson's (my best friends) house. The same cop that I talked to was there, and the land lady's chevy avalanche was gone! That {insert foul language, dissing that [more foul tongue]'s mother} stole here truck and one of the other tenants stereo!
So I'm like, "Gawd Die-aym!" and start following the prints again. I get to a car behind job service and note that they stopped there. Then I follow them right to the stolen truck!
I'm not lucky enough to be the first one there though, the cop arrived minutes before I did, but I offered the land lady my aid and thoughts (getting stuff stolen is a big deal, and she's such a nice lady) and told the officer about the other car the prints went to.
Then I asked if I could follow more prints, and he siad "sure, just call me if you find anything else." so I did, and I did, and I did. About a block away from the truck, I found her dish network thing that was missing from the truck. the prints led right up to it. So I called the cop again, and learned that they tried to break into the car I told him about.
I searched the entire main street area and I'm pretty sure the [Worse words] frequents Buster's bar. An eyewitness says the people who stole the truck were a tall man with long blond hair, and a fat man with long brown hair.
The footsteps put him at about my height (six-two) and about a size 13 shoe.
My dad says he knows a guy that fits that description, who he has had trouble with in the past (could there be more to the story?) and says the guys lives like a block away, and is missing his front teeth.
Darn, I was kind of hoping I could bust them out myself. (THAT WAS A JOKE! Relax, I have faith that Willistons Finest will get to the bottom of it and bring justice upon that [do I really need to say it])
Wow, I feel much better now that I got that off my chest. I hope I dont get in trouble for sharing it though. It could be a big NSA sting operation to weed out terrorist cells in Lebanon.
"Whuh, day four?"
DAY 4
The following is a copy of the notes I took during class, indented and in [my comments].
[ I arrived somewhat late, I had to go through the lunch line because I was hungry]
the caucasian invadors forced the africans to feel ashamed of their culture. They became almost like slaves. They used biblical principles to enslave the people,
south africa has 41 million, now closer to 60 million. More than 50% of the population is black
ghandi brought indentured servants to work on sugar beet plantations from india. they went to natal. they were demarcated as indians in Natal, and moved each group of people to a specific part of the country. "group areas act" if you were black you needed a pass if you were away from home. and if you were outside of your demarcation for more than 24 hours, you were arrested. the culture is still alive despite apartheid. the culture is still alive because people now are deliberately reliving their culture, many no longer feel ashamed.
the cultures didn't respect each other, and they felt intimidated by others who were more aggressive in asserting their culture as the "right" culture. each culture still had basic religious principles, sanctity of life, etc.
apartheid is no longer as blatant, but it still exists. all of this changed with the new government, there are now 21 universities. They came to the agreement that they would live together with mutual respect, and they could move from one place to the next without needing a pass. one of the major problems was language, the country has 11 official languages. had to learn english and afrikaans.
zulu is common language. the missionary schools from the united states helped the africans learn because the local schools would not help. the rebels usually attacked indian people because the indians were known as peaceful people (a la ghandi)
almost 90% of the indians are "born again christians" most lost all of their family values, the indian culture has a distinctive caste system. The factors were wealth and education. if you belong to the upperclass, you could not marry a lower class. the man had to bring 10 cows to marry a woman. as the culture developed, there became bartering. "south american money is rand. 1rand=10$. AIDS hit africa, and thousands die, part of this is because of the polygmy, zulu culture is the only one in africa to stand the test of time. the culture is very musically oriented, that is how they would survive, they would sing to get through harsh times with music.
the zulu now have education that is open to all because mandela allowed higher ed for everyone. "invictus" is a wonderful story showing mendelas story, from prison to presidency. the indian sarie is popular in indian culture. if you married women would have a red dot on their forehead, pre-christian.
typically africans eat "grits/cream of wheat" that is called _________ it is lumpy, and they eat it with meat and gravy,
indians eat lots of curry and rice, and very spicy meat, garlic ginger cumin and red peppers (mesalla) the "colored" people (black and white mixed) don't really have their own culture.
until recently women were never able to attain an education. in her culture a man always stood in the way of a woman when she was being progressive. you have to have a masters degree to get a job down there. the only way to get a promotion is to do more school. after masters its honors, then doctorate. she pursued more education in Boston and got scholarships for all 20 years of her education (both in US and SA)
it is now reverse apartheid, now the black people are being unpleasant to the white people. you were then entering school because of the color of your skin, not because of your smarts. a lot of white and indian people have left. the wealthy and educated people are leaving.
hospitality is a big thing in indian culture, (3000 people attended her wedding)
[Her story reminded me of human nature. I commented in class on George in "Dead Like Me" episode number 3 I think. When she says "Lets get everyone who has ten fingers and get together as a group. Then we can go beat up all the people with nine fingers" ]
[People naturally gravitate towards other people who are like them, and are naturally skeptical of outsiders. When you add the tension of actual opression, this can become a volitile situation, and people aren't exactly known for making logical discisions when in groups]
HEY HEY, IT's time for the canadian, eh?
[I took criminal justice with this guy (can't remember his name) so I knew him from outside this class and had already talked with him on the differences between USA and Canada.]
cory, born in manitoba, lived there for 19 years, then to bc for 2 years, williston for a year
[Oh, lol, I put his name right there, kinda above and to the left of my "oh". If you missed it, his name is Cory, or maybe Corey, I don't really know how to spell it (his name that is)]
differences, politics education and sports. the biggest thing is sports. everybody in canada plays hockey. the way we treat or nba and nfl canada treats their hockey teams like thats.
politics, canada has "clean" political ads, their funding is done without business support. no corporate sponsorship. canada has 7 parties. prime minsiter instead of president
[The US actually has a large number of parties; republican, democrat, libertarian, TEA, green, and independant, to name a few.]
eduction, is at a higher level than USA, there are like 3 english classes every year. winters are a little colder and snowier than ours. 33 million people in canada, BC ontario and quebec. drinking is not enforced like usa, they don't get so pissed when a minor drinks. Drugs aren't as big of a deal, they will just confiscate and send it home. dont give them a smart remark.
[I think the United States really needs to focus on education. Most of the world is kicking our ass on "standardised tests" It's all about "Graduate so you can make money." and the focus becomes a diploma, instead of a quality education. If the classes are too tough for a kid to do, then don't lower the requirements for everybody else, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. So put that weak link into something it is more effective at.]
document that secures civil rights, two declarations, one for canadians, and one for foriegners. come from 1890's canada just kind of followed american.
they force french on you until 8th grade. the usa teachers are much better, in canada they wouldn't help you, and you were just a number. some lecture halls had 500 people,
hunting starts at age 12, need hunter safety, then can buy muzzle loader, rifle and archery tags, 12 year old cannot be in bush without a person who has a PAL card. the only tags to apply for is a draw. you can shoot deer at almost anytime. there are a ton of animals. the draws are usually around the mountains, there are 5 years. general season for everything. wolves mountain lions have open season for anyone all year, no dogs allowed to hunt them though.
Game Warden in canada do not carry a gun, they just enforce the hunting laws. no capital punishment a life sentence in canada is 25 years. it does not add on.
game wardens have full rights to take vehicles, guns, and anything in your possession when you were caught,
if you get charged with something gun related, they just take away that gun. the one in question. every farm house has guns. they aren't locked up, ammo is available, doors are never locked. people dont worry about crime. vehicles aren't locked usually. their native people can hunt whatever, whenever they want.
healthcare, the government pays for all of it. the taxes are 12% on anything, some places have 19% taxes.
military run a 10 minute mile 25 push ups and 70% on a general test.
canadian military has very good rifle ranges. quebec wants to separate from quebec. americans are very nationalistic. canadians don't have much nationalism.
very diverse religion jehova witness is tryijng to expand. canadian strippers are completely naked, unlike the american stuff. alcohol is 2 or 3 times as expensive as in the states. canadian alcohol is much stronger than usa. us police get paid horrible wages, in canada its a 95k/year
drivers license comes before the training. its all book stuff. if you have aPAL you could take guns to school as long as the vehicle was locked.
handguns don't really exist in Canada. need an unrestricted PAL to own a handgun, if you get caught with more than a 5 shot magazine or shorter than 22 inches. must be 300 meters away from a main road. you can do anything you want on your land. people are very touchy about trespassing, especially on hunting.
criminal laws are harsh in USA compared to Canada. they don't get fines like we do.
touch on affirmative action.
[Affirmative action=reverse discrimination. A member of a minority gets dibs on a position, even if a member of the "majority (read, white person) scores better than them, and would do better at the job/class. How am I supposed to compete with a black person, when one of the requirements is "be of African descent" (just one example)]
touch on the articles. what is important, why did we read them.
[I always chuckle silently to myself when women complain about not receiving equal opportunities in "elected positions" Hmmmm, elected, like a vote of the 'people' in big business this would be the board of directors, who are put there by a vote of the common stock holders. Stock holders vote for board of directors, board votes for CEO, and CEO appoints 'helpers'. Its not the laws, nor is it the "men" that are keeping women out of this, it is vote of people.]
talk about differences in people in the work force.
(justin bows, steve fishing, dion cop, vinny dumb student that knows too much)
[I couldn't help but think about Scenic Sports, as this is my current employer, Justin knows everything there is to know about bows, steve know a ton about fishing, dion has like 10 years law enforcement experience and is very knowledgeable in everything gun and weapon related both workings and usage. and then there is me. I am the youngest, I don't really hunt that much, but I have read a lot on guns, and find (and the other guys tell me) I am very good at selling guns. But for some reason, I'm always the one that catches shit for anything that goes wrong, weather I'm responsible or not. It's not a huge deal, because I am very good at solving problems, and sometimes I think they blame me just because they know I will clear my name and fix the problem much faster than anyone else.]
[At walmart I was a customer service manager at age 18. I was the boss of the entire front end and learned quickly how to earn the respect of those who were 'under' me. Do what they do, and teach them. Unlike many of the other 'newbie' CSM's, I already had over 2 years experience cashiering, and my cashiers knew that. Maintain civility, and the most important part (it gets its own line),
When somebody screws up, let them tell you. Bring it to their attention that you know somethings up, and ask. Don't pull them aside, don't write them up just find out if they know. If they did it on purpose, you will get an excuse. You decide if it 'passes'. If they don't know, (or if they were being of "questionable integrity" (read, LYING) then they will say that they don't know. Then explain to them what is wrong, avoiding these key words, "YOU, DID, WRONG, BAD, NEVER, ALWAYS, SHOULD, DON'T, and most of all YOU" Peoples minds generally work the same. Cultures may change the details, but people don't like being scolded, and they generally like improving their skills.]
The following is a copy of the notes I took during class, indented and in [my comments].
[ I arrived somewhat late, I had to go through the lunch line because I was hungry]
the caucasian invadors forced the africans to feel ashamed of their culture. They became almost like slaves. They used biblical principles to enslave the people,
south africa has 41 million, now closer to 60 million. More than 50% of the population is black
ghandi brought indentured servants to work on sugar beet plantations from india. they went to natal. they were demarcated as indians in Natal, and moved each group of people to a specific part of the country. "group areas act" if you were black you needed a pass if you were away from home. and if you were outside of your demarcation for more than 24 hours, you were arrested. the culture is still alive despite apartheid. the culture is still alive because people now are deliberately reliving their culture, many no longer feel ashamed.
the cultures didn't respect each other, and they felt intimidated by others who were more aggressive in asserting their culture as the "right" culture. each culture still had basic religious principles, sanctity of life, etc.
apartheid is no longer as blatant, but it still exists. all of this changed with the new government, there are now 21 universities. They came to the agreement that they would live together with mutual respect, and they could move from one place to the next without needing a pass. one of the major problems was language, the country has 11 official languages. had to learn english and afrikaans.
zulu is common language. the missionary schools from the united states helped the africans learn because the local schools would not help. the rebels usually attacked indian people because the indians were known as peaceful people (a la ghandi)
almost 90% of the indians are "born again christians" most lost all of their family values, the indian culture has a distinctive caste system. The factors were wealth and education. if you belong to the upperclass, you could not marry a lower class. the man had to bring 10 cows to marry a woman. as the culture developed, there became bartering. "south american money is rand. 1rand=10$. AIDS hit africa, and thousands die, part of this is because of the polygmy, zulu culture is the only one in africa to stand the test of time. the culture is very musically oriented, that is how they would survive, they would sing to get through harsh times with music.
the zulu now have education that is open to all because mandela allowed higher ed for everyone. "invictus" is a wonderful story showing mendelas story, from prison to presidency. the indian sarie is popular in indian culture. if you married women would have a red dot on their forehead, pre-christian.
typically africans eat "grits/cream of wheat" that is called _________ it is lumpy, and they eat it with meat and gravy,
indians eat lots of curry and rice, and very spicy meat, garlic ginger cumin and red peppers (mesalla) the "colored" people (black and white mixed) don't really have their own culture.
until recently women were never able to attain an education. in her culture a man always stood in the way of a woman when she was being progressive. you have to have a masters degree to get a job down there. the only way to get a promotion is to do more school. after masters its honors, then doctorate. she pursued more education in Boston and got scholarships for all 20 years of her education (both in US and SA)
it is now reverse apartheid, now the black people are being unpleasant to the white people. you were then entering school because of the color of your skin, not because of your smarts. a lot of white and indian people have left. the wealthy and educated people are leaving.
hospitality is a big thing in indian culture, (3000 people attended her wedding)
[Her story reminded me of human nature. I commented in class on George in "Dead Like Me" episode number 3 I think. When she says "Lets get everyone who has ten fingers and get together as a group. Then we can go beat up all the people with nine fingers" ]
[People naturally gravitate towards other people who are like them, and are naturally skeptical of outsiders. When you add the tension of actual opression, this can become a volitile situation, and people aren't exactly known for making logical discisions when in groups]
HEY HEY, IT's time for the canadian, eh?
[I took criminal justice with this guy (can't remember his name) so I knew him from outside this class and had already talked with him on the differences between USA and Canada.]
cory, born in manitoba, lived there for 19 years, then to bc for 2 years, williston for a year
[Oh, lol, I put his name right there, kinda above and to the left of my "oh". If you missed it, his name is Cory, or maybe Corey, I don't really know how to spell it (his name that is)]
differences, politics education and sports. the biggest thing is sports. everybody in canada plays hockey. the way we treat or nba and nfl canada treats their hockey teams like thats.
politics, canada has "clean" political ads, their funding is done without business support. no corporate sponsorship. canada has 7 parties. prime minsiter instead of president
[The US actually has a large number of parties; republican, democrat, libertarian, TEA, green, and independant, to name a few.]
eduction, is at a higher level than USA, there are like 3 english classes every year. winters are a little colder and snowier than ours. 33 million people in canada, BC ontario and quebec. drinking is not enforced like usa, they don't get so pissed when a minor drinks. Drugs aren't as big of a deal, they will just confiscate and send it home. dont give them a smart remark.
[I think the United States really needs to focus on education. Most of the world is kicking our ass on "standardised tests" It's all about "Graduate so you can make money." and the focus becomes a diploma, instead of a quality education. If the classes are too tough for a kid to do, then don't lower the requirements for everybody else, the chain is only as strong as its weakest link. So put that weak link into something it is more effective at.]
document that secures civil rights, two declarations, one for canadians, and one for foriegners. come from 1890's canada just kind of followed american.
they force french on you until 8th grade. the usa teachers are much better, in canada they wouldn't help you, and you were just a number. some lecture halls had 500 people,
hunting starts at age 12, need hunter safety, then can buy muzzle loader, rifle and archery tags, 12 year old cannot be in bush without a person who has a PAL card. the only tags to apply for is a draw. you can shoot deer at almost anytime. there are a ton of animals. the draws are usually around the mountains, there are 5 years. general season for everything. wolves mountain lions have open season for anyone all year, no dogs allowed to hunt them though.
Game Warden in canada do not carry a gun, they just enforce the hunting laws. no capital punishment a life sentence in canada is 25 years. it does not add on.
game wardens have full rights to take vehicles, guns, and anything in your possession when you were caught,
if you get charged with something gun related, they just take away that gun. the one in question. every farm house has guns. they aren't locked up, ammo is available, doors are never locked. people dont worry about crime. vehicles aren't locked usually. their native people can hunt whatever, whenever they want.
healthcare, the government pays for all of it. the taxes are 12% on anything, some places have 19% taxes.
military run a 10 minute mile 25 push ups and 70% on a general test.
canadian military has very good rifle ranges. quebec wants to separate from quebec. americans are very nationalistic. canadians don't have much nationalism.
very diverse religion jehova witness is tryijng to expand. canadian strippers are completely naked, unlike the american stuff. alcohol is 2 or 3 times as expensive as in the states. canadian alcohol is much stronger than usa. us police get paid horrible wages, in canada its a 95k/year
drivers license comes before the training. its all book stuff. if you have aPAL you could take guns to school as long as the vehicle was locked.
handguns don't really exist in Canada. need an unrestricted PAL to own a handgun, if you get caught with more than a 5 shot magazine or shorter than 22 inches. must be 300 meters away from a main road. you can do anything you want on your land. people are very touchy about trespassing, especially on hunting.
criminal laws are harsh in USA compared to Canada. they don't get fines like we do.
touch on affirmative action.
[Affirmative action=reverse discrimination. A member of a minority gets dibs on a position, even if a member of the "majority (read, white person) scores better than them, and would do better at the job/class. How am I supposed to compete with a black person, when one of the requirements is "be of African descent" (just one example)]
touch on the articles. what is important, why did we read them.
[I always chuckle silently to myself when women complain about not receiving equal opportunities in "elected positions" Hmmmm, elected, like a vote of the 'people' in big business this would be the board of directors, who are put there by a vote of the common stock holders. Stock holders vote for board of directors, board votes for CEO, and CEO appoints 'helpers'. Its not the laws, nor is it the "men" that are keeping women out of this, it is vote of people.]
talk about differences in people in the work force.
(justin bows, steve fishing, dion cop, vinny dumb student that knows too much)
[I couldn't help but think about Scenic Sports, as this is my current employer, Justin knows everything there is to know about bows, steve know a ton about fishing, dion has like 10 years law enforcement experience and is very knowledgeable in everything gun and weapon related both workings and usage. and then there is me. I am the youngest, I don't really hunt that much, but I have read a lot on guns, and find (and the other guys tell me) I am very good at selling guns. But for some reason, I'm always the one that catches shit for anything that goes wrong, weather I'm responsible or not. It's not a huge deal, because I am very good at solving problems, and sometimes I think they blame me just because they know I will clear my name and fix the problem much faster than anyone else.]
[At walmart I was a customer service manager at age 18. I was the boss of the entire front end and learned quickly how to earn the respect of those who were 'under' me. Do what they do, and teach them. Unlike many of the other 'newbie' CSM's, I already had over 2 years experience cashiering, and my cashiers knew that. Maintain civility, and the most important part (it gets its own line),
When somebody screws up, let them tell you. Bring it to their attention that you know somethings up, and ask. Don't pull them aside, don't write them up just find out if they know. If they did it on purpose, you will get an excuse. You decide if it 'passes'. If they don't know, (or if they were being of "questionable integrity" (read, LYING) then they will say that they don't know. Then explain to them what is wrong, avoiding these key words, "YOU, DID, WRONG, BAD, NEVER, ALWAYS, SHOULD, DON'T, and most of all YOU" Peoples minds generally work the same. Cultures may change the details, but people don't like being scolded, and they generally like improving their skills.]
Monday, January 31, 2011
What was I supposed to blog about again????!!!!!!one111
BWAAAH!!!!!11!!!!1one!!1
Whitney has the printout that I need, so I guess I'll fly IFR.
*disclaimer: my culture (family) does not think too highly of Islam. It is my belief that it is not possible for America and Islam to get along. Sharia law doesn't work in a democracy, and Islam is not 'Islam' without sharia law. Anybody is welcome to debate this with me, as I still understand that a human being is a human being, no matter what religeon, but I highly doubt that my opinions on Islamic culture will ever change.*
The speaker on Islam was very good at conveying the information in an understandable manner. Unfortunately, I did not learn much, as I have already done some research into Islam (I wanted to know why I heard people shouting "Allahu Akbar!" after something was blown up, shot, or lit on fire).
I did like the discussion on modesty, it is something that I have thought about before. I completely agree with the idea of each person having their beliefs and customs, but there is no need to wear them on our sleeves.
CHRISTIANITY IS A VIOLENT RELIGION!! The bible is full of people committing violent acts on behalf of God, it is a part of the history. Not to mention the horrible things that were done to people because of Christianity. (Saving people, then killing them to make sure they don't stray from the path of God for example)
Christianity had it's turn to toss the world into war, now it's Islam's turn.
Anyway, I better stop before I actually start to get worked up, it's just that, If I see a group of people who are all wearing the same hat, and one of them says "I'm going to kill you, your family, and destroy everything you hold dear." I dont worry too much. But when others in that group agree, and begin to take action against me, I get defensive, and nobody won a fight with defence.
"But what about the people in the hat group that don't want to kill you?" one may ask. I have not seen any of them lift a finger to help me, or stop the others in their group. And all the rest will sit quietly and do nothing while the more agressive of their people follow their own agendas.
I suppose I should censor myself, because I can just see these words biting me in the ass later in life, but part of the reason we are in danger is because Americans are afraid of stepping on toes.
When was the last time a Buddhist from Tibet tried to blow up an airliner? Why do we bother searching them? Because we dont want to make the Muslim population angry, because it is the Islamic EXTREMISTS that are doing the bombing. There is nothing wrong with racial profiling, even if they profile me on a trip to Saudi Arabia.
Bah, see? I went off again.
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The second part of the assignment was to interview the "oldest living reletive" about our family history.
My grandma talked for quite some time, in fact I said this "Tell me about where my family comes from." and she just went off the deep end. I have two full pages of handwritten notes (written quite small) My family has been in north dakota for 5 generations, I'm in the 5th. There is at least one full blooded norwegian, and one full blooded german. There was also a Cherokee Native on my grandfather's side. There is a lot of information to sort through, I think I'm going to try to upload a digital copy of my notes to the blog cause it would be a lot of typing, and the little lines and notes and bubbles wouldn't convert to typing very well....
Whitney has the printout that I need, so I guess I'll fly IFR.
*disclaimer: my culture (family) does not think too highly of Islam. It is my belief that it is not possible for America and Islam to get along. Sharia law doesn't work in a democracy, and Islam is not 'Islam' without sharia law. Anybody is welcome to debate this with me, as I still understand that a human being is a human being, no matter what religeon, but I highly doubt that my opinions on Islamic culture will ever change.*
The speaker on Islam was very good at conveying the information in an understandable manner. Unfortunately, I did not learn much, as I have already done some research into Islam (I wanted to know why I heard people shouting "Allahu Akbar!" after something was blown up, shot, or lit on fire).
I did like the discussion on modesty, it is something that I have thought about before. I completely agree with the idea of each person having their beliefs and customs, but there is no need to wear them on our sleeves.
CHRISTIANITY IS A VIOLENT RELIGION!! The bible is full of people committing violent acts on behalf of God, it is a part of the history. Not to mention the horrible things that were done to people because of Christianity. (Saving people, then killing them to make sure they don't stray from the path of God for example)
Christianity had it's turn to toss the world into war, now it's Islam's turn.
Anyway, I better stop before I actually start to get worked up, it's just that, If I see a group of people who are all wearing the same hat, and one of them says "I'm going to kill you, your family, and destroy everything you hold dear." I dont worry too much. But when others in that group agree, and begin to take action against me, I get defensive, and nobody won a fight with defence.
"But what about the people in the hat group that don't want to kill you?" one may ask. I have not seen any of them lift a finger to help me, or stop the others in their group. And all the rest will sit quietly and do nothing while the more agressive of their people follow their own agendas.
I suppose I should censor myself, because I can just see these words biting me in the ass later in life, but part of the reason we are in danger is because Americans are afraid of stepping on toes.
When was the last time a Buddhist from Tibet tried to blow up an airliner? Why do we bother searching them? Because we dont want to make the Muslim population angry, because it is the Islamic EXTREMISTS that are doing the bombing. There is nothing wrong with racial profiling, even if they profile me on a trip to Saudi Arabia.
Bah, see? I went off again.
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The second part of the assignment was to interview the "oldest living reletive" about our family history.
My grandma talked for quite some time, in fact I said this "Tell me about where my family comes from." and she just went off the deep end. I have two full pages of handwritten notes (written quite small) My family has been in north dakota for 5 generations, I'm in the 5th. There is at least one full blooded norwegian, and one full blooded german. There was also a Cherokee Native on my grandfather's side. There is a lot of information to sort through, I think I'm going to try to upload a digital copy of my notes to the blog cause it would be a lot of typing, and the little lines and notes and bubbles wouldn't convert to typing very well....
Monday, January 24, 2011
Class last week.
For the life of me, I cannot remember how to spell (or even say) her name. She told us about life in Ukraine, and it is very differnent. I enjoyed listening to her talk about her experiences in the United States, and how they compare to the ways of life in Ukraine.
The videos were informative, but they were a little dated. I wonder how those people would react if I asked them what they want to be called. Whatever happened to "sir" or "ma'am".
What was realy funny was the comedian after class. He told a few jokes involving race, and they were very funny... "How many locks do you have?"
The class discussions are very lively, and I feel as if I'm walking through a minefield. Some of the items of discussion could flare up into very hostile situations...
The videos were informative, but they were a little dated. I wonder how those people would react if I asked them what they want to be called. Whatever happened to "sir" or "ma'am".
What was realy funny was the comedian after class. He told a few jokes involving race, and they were very funny... "How many locks do you have?"
The class discussions are very lively, and I feel as if I'm walking through a minefield. Some of the items of discussion could flare up into very hostile situations...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
What I want (Part II)
When I signed up for this class I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I only knew that it was required to take at least on of two classes to attend the trip to China. Schedule conflicts did not allow me to take the other class, so I signed up for this one.
During class today it was explained what we are supposed to take away from this class. Now that the purpose is known, I can add what I want from the class, personally. My previous statement of "Learn how to avoid putting my foot in my mouth" still stands, however, there is one thing I must add.
I want to be exposed to other cultures because I need to have an understanding of why things are the way they are. I don't want to go into too much detail, but I know there are groups of people who don't like me simply because I am who I am. It would be nice to have a better understanding of why.
What I expect from the class is to achieve my two goals. It sure would be nice to get more out of it though.
The movie we watched was interesting, once I got past the bad acting, but it did show some difficult situations, and some of them I have actually been in. It is nice to be able to learn how to react in a situation without having to screw up and learn. Much like the Chinese proverb,
"The fool learns from his mistakes. The wiseman learns from the mistakes of others"
So what does the Weismann say?
During class today it was explained what we are supposed to take away from this class. Now that the purpose is known, I can add what I want from the class, personally. My previous statement of "Learn how to avoid putting my foot in my mouth" still stands, however, there is one thing I must add.
I want to be exposed to other cultures because I need to have an understanding of why things are the way they are. I don't want to go into too much detail, but I know there are groups of people who don't like me simply because I am who I am. It would be nice to have a better understanding of why.
What I expect from the class is to achieve my two goals. It sure would be nice to get more out of it though.
The movie we watched was interesting, once I got past the bad acting, but it did show some difficult situations, and some of them I have actually been in. It is nice to be able to learn how to react in a situation without having to screw up and learn. Much like the Chinese proverb,
"The fool learns from his mistakes. The wiseman learns from the mistakes of others"
So what does the Weismann say?
Monday, January 17, 2011
What I want....
A soda, a million dollars, maybe a pony too. Unfortunately intercultural communications cannot give me those things. Instead I hope to settle for learning how to keep my foot out of my mouth when dealing with other cultures.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
I don't understand...
This is a blog, huh? I have been trying to help Wee get her blog set up. Kara and I are going to watch some RWJ =3 when we're done here. It will be epic. We can see viral videos from other cultures, usually involving stupidity and physical pain.
Peace, love, and a heck of a lot of fun!
Vinny
Peace, love, and a heck of a lot of fun!
Vinny
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