Comments on: Minorities, eh?

By: ellie.

ellie. — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 02:10:14 +0000

The oddest thing about this, though, is that nobody seems to be fighting against their stereotypes. At my school last year, the entirety of the male Hispanic population wore baggy jeans down to their knees, and large shirts with airbrushed Tweeties on them, and tiny backpacks with obscure cartoon characters on them, and all of the girls wore tight jeans and shirts up to their bellybuttons and down to their cleavages and gold necklaces with their names in cursive, and tiny backpacks with obscure cartoon characters on them. But then in elementary school it was the skinny guy who ate all of the gross stuff, and then at middle school nobody pressured anybody to do any drug; shit’s expensive. It almost seems like half of America is devolving and half of it is evolving. Or maybe we’re just finally waking up? Hmm… (Ironic, isn’t it, that the first thing I thought when I saw the last two letters of this post was “Canadians”?)

By: StiflyStiferson

StiflyStiferson — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:34:00 +0000

Yeah I didnt consider tards. Interesting.

By: alec

alec — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:25:34 +0000

Interesting. I think most sociologists would say its now in the middle — somewhere between nature and nurture that everything gets decided. I think there are always exceptional cases however — auticism, genius, mental retardation are strictly a product of genetics while someone being abused leading to their own derangement is strictly a product of nurture.

By: skadannyface

skadannyface — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:50:33 +0000

very insightful.