I'm not here to denounce America. I'm not here to be a racist jerk and pretend that I'm a know it all. I'm here to pose a question: Why is America so obsessed with race?
We've all had our fair share of racism, whether is be the civil rights movement (in real life or history class), or people glaring down on a minority. We see it and sometimes we are a victim of it.
But most of the extreme racism is in the past. No one in lynching each other and no one (at least not a large mass of a certain heritage) is being harassed everyday. Sure, there may be small bullyings, but no more mass exclusions of a certain race in school, as far as I can see it.
In the modern times, there are 'issues' that concern the public even more, like politics, abortion or same-sex-marriage. Many people think that racism is in the past, and to a certain extent, one can support or argue this point.
Racism or not, this country is obsessed with race.
Take for example the Halloween Scary Hayride in Virginia this year. One hayride was brought onto the news because the NAACP thought the dummies hanging from strings from the trees were symbolic of the KKK lynching African Americans. Really? They are just dummies and the colour of the fabric was somewhere between a pale/tan colour. What's going to happen next? "Oh, the walls are all white and that's a symbol of white favouristism." What the heck!
My entire Theory of Knowledge class discussed this issue and a boy sitting directly in front of me argued that racism on African Americans has moved on and now it's onto Arabians. "All the airport security people think we are all terrorists or something." My friend sitting next to him immediately rebutted with the fact that it is all random.
There is probably some bias behind the choosings, but I myself find them to be utterly random. Of course some percentages are going to be higher than others because if you closed your eyes and reached into a bag full of randomly coloured marbles, you aren't going to get an exact 25% red, blue, yellow and green marbles. It's just random. Heck, chances are you might not even get 5% green and half of your hand is filled with blue marbles. It's all random.
This is like probability in kindergarten.
In the words of my wise Theory of Knowledge teacher: "A white guy shoots a white guy. Big deal. BUT (insert wild arm movements to express his excitement of this topic) But! If a white guy shoots a black guy or vice versa, THEN it's ALLL over the media. Why is that?"
Yeah, why is that? What if it was a random shooting?
I don't know about you guys, but the day zombies attack is the day I suit up and become a female commando.
In preparation of such an event, I, along with a few of my friends and family, would build a reinforced fort, much like that of I AM LEGEND (Will Smith yeeahhhhh). Each one of us would have a separate room, except for me and someone else because I always need someone next to me xD
Ohohoho. For the kitchen, I'd pile it up with cheese spray cans and tuna fish in a can. Maybe some lollipops. But heck, if I'm prepared, I could just take things from deserted houses now can't I?
And I'd have a plane. Just saying. So, just incase they do raid my house, I could fly off onto an untainted island.
What is it with zombies anyways? What makes them crave brains?
Seriously, if I were a zombie, I'd go for the noodles because noodles are so much better. Who wants to eat a meal that struggles? Dining is all about etiquette and comfort.
...... If I were a zombie, like a new zombie whose brain hasn't rotted out yet, would I eat my own brain?
I always hear/read interesting anecdotes about teachers performing out-of-the-norm acts, but I always wonder why that doesn't happen to me, EVER.
Like on FML, some teacher grabbed some guys ..... thing.... because he thought it was a phone. Sure, I don't want that to happen to me (and in fact, if it did, I'd scream), but if I ever heard about something like that happening near me, I'd freak because my school is so by the book!
On MLIA, teachers always have cool quizzes, like write the lyrics to some awesomefultastic Disney song. Why don't I get that! I think that my school is so uniform that even if the kids were in uniforms, it couldn't get more plain? There's never any fights and there's never really that much drama going on.
Dramas bad, but hey, I'm a person and I like to watch dramas sometimes.
The only awesomefultastic moment I can recall in that uncertain thing I call my memory is that one time in my Biology class where my teacher declared that that day was to be dedicated to work on the computer. He approached the board and wrote in large black ink the link: www.addictinggames.com <--- Go to Impossible Quiz and whoever finishes it gets extra credit.
Obviously no one got extra credit, but that teacher has so much respect from me that I bet I'll still remember how to spell his unique last name on the day I die.
You know what'd be really cool? If my teacher, for extra credit, made me draw an epic battle between the Transformers and some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
We had this little conversation in my Theory of Knowledge about selfishness, and throughout this weekend, I had a couple revelations. Although I do wish to form my thoughts into a full blown essay, I'm afraid I have neither the patience nor the talent and time to do so.
Plus, my rants have little to do with selfishness. It's more about happiness as a whole. Why are people never happy? I believe it's because they expect something. Like Newton's law, every action has a reaction, and some people want to apply this to everything. Give a gift, get a gift. Give a coin to a homeless shelter and expect karma to reward you. Newton's law is physics and pure physics. Life is life. Not everyone has morals and not everyone has politeness buried deep inside them.
I've heard so many complaints about not recieving something back. "I give my all to you guys and I get nothing back." Though the statement, at the time of pronounciation seemed to be a guilt-trip kind of thing, it is actually just a characterization. A very definite and clear characterization. This person is obviously leading a horrible life, a life filled with hate and chaos. People who always expect something back will be constantly disappointed.
Take for example: Me holding the door for people. Half the time, they never say thank you. Obviously, this displeases me and at first this bothered me greatly for I bent over backwards for these strangers, but as time passed, I realized that I should just hold it for people. Who cares what they say or don't say? It's not like if I don't get any kindness in return, I'm going to spontaneously explode while going down an escalator.
What is it about human nature that makes us such depressing people? If anyone has ever read the book Siddhartha, the main character goes through stages to throw away his ego, otherwise known as the negative emotions of life. In the beginning, the story painfully and slowly describes the hardships one must go through to do such a thing.
Honestly, as humans, it's impossible to be completely happy, because after a while, you'll lose the real feeling of happiness. Without misery to combat happiness, it wouldn't exist. So, therefor to be happy, we must be selfish and strive for something.
There are certain degrees to which a human can strive for something. There is a certain degree to which we can and need to be selfish. Being selfish isn't a really bad thing. We need to be selfish to live, but then there is a level of selfishness where it's going above and beyond the basic needs of human necessity.
Right now, I could say I'm content, with a hint of sadness. What am I craving for? Love? From my friends? Attention? From my family? Freedom from the constant boredom? I don't know.
Stop freaking out. This is coming from someone who had the swine flu.
What happens is that you get sick, maybe a bit more severe then the seasonal flu, but nethertheless just sick. Fever. Barfingness. Coughing. I lost my voice. But I didn't die. IF I was dead would I be talking to you right now? No! Unless I am dead. Then.... oh my :( I'm not going to get to play with hamsters anymore. What a shame.
There are larger chances of someone winning the lottery then from dying from this so-called pandemic.
I'm so sick of..... a couple of people..... complaining constantly about the swine flu. This one girl believes that I gave the swine flu to someone else. It's an understandable accusation, only I don't even know the person she's talking about.
This is the equivalent of telling me I killed someone in Russia while I was learning about the fundamental theorem of Calculus. Unless I had super telekinesis, no one in Russia would have died according to something I did. The chaos theory is bogus. However, if I did have super telekinesis, I'd levitate a bottle in the middle of class and dump the contents in it on someone I hate.
Ew. My posts haven't been very interesting lately. Maybe I've lost my blogging powers. Darn it. D: And I was so close to TRUE too :[
In real life, I'm an antisocial person. On Xanga, I speak my mind. To confront others, I must plan everything in my head. Everything is thought over. I swear I have problems. I also think I'm bipolar because I'm like extremely moody O.O!!! People say I have a virgin mind, although I must say I think pretty weird things =__=. My passions lie on mostly electronical things, music and art. Math is an easy subject for me... Um what else... Hopeless romantic, MMORPGer, manga addict, anime addict, writing addict [terrible writer though....] My humour may be crude and I am such a spazz! Poke me and I'll squeal.
oh I always watch it in japanese with spanish or english subs ^^ I like the jap voices better! but I really didn't heard the american, anyway I couldn't understand them if it hasn't have english subs xDD Im not that good at english listening heheee
hahahaa yeaah! I like it too.. and the vaizars!! they're so awsome!! =3 >.< hehee
mm.. 368 I think..(i read the manga bcause anime was slow xD)
but I like bleaaach! ^^ hehe so its cuutee!
uuuh!! love your new layout ;D
ohh! im reading those too! well only: bleach, naruto, fairy tail, one piece (from which you've said) but im reading others too ^^
I'm an anime' and manga fan too. I'm currently reading Bleach, Naruto, Fairy Tail, Claymore, Berserk, Eyeshield 21, Bamboo Blade, Detective Conan, xxxHolic, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, and One Piece. How about you?
You're antisocial? Really? The technical definition of antisocial personality is someone who has no regard for other people's rights, such as scammers, for example. Maybe you're just unfriendly and aloof, as you say, in real life.
mm... couldn't choose!! look here : http://myanimelist.net/mangalist/vera17 =)
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