Monday, October 9, 2006 - politics!!! blahhh!
so if yall havent noticed, there are alot of political add campaigns on tv and all they do is bash eachother! why? it doesnt make themselves look any better and it just makes me hate them all even more! i get to vote this year and i feel so uninspired to vote at all! ive read what all the people have to say and stuff and im so confused and scared to vote. how do i know that they will enact these ideas they have? will they ever be able to fund their ideas? what happens if they go against something that i thought that they were for? i really hate politcs right now and i can see why people dont vote, and i can see why people do vote!!!
i love our government and the rights it gives us but i hate those bloodsucking parasites that are a part of our government!!!!!!
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Wednesday, October 4, 2006 - Lost in Translation
With the increase in technology and communications in America, there are debates about whether or not our social morality and ethics are being "lost in the translation" or if we are creating a full fledged globalization. Yes, I understand that globalization happens everyday but through what portal? Economically we are at a new apex every hour. The global index is skyrocketing and people can receive a call from anywhere in the world and it is no big deal. But what is happening socially? How about this scenario; two people at a restaurant, one is alone, and the other is with their wife/husband. After the lone person orders their food, they get on their cell phone and call a friend so that they are not alone but are at the same time. Now the couple at the other table has ordered their food and they are talking about some hot topic in politics. The situations are derived from the same social behaviors, both are “socializing” but situational circumstances indicate that the lone person is not communicating in the same sense some how. Is it through technology? In a sense, yes, But on the other hand something is lost when the person on the phone calls the other. One, the person on the other line has just received a phone call, the conversation was an expected thing on one end, but the other person did not know the lone person was going to call. The two people are communicating differently because of the situation of communication! The couple on the other hand is both predisposed to the idea that they were there to communicate and look each other in the eyes and understand each other, but I digress.
People have different ideas and standard mentality, and everyone is different. There has always been that gap and there always will be. But more recently people have grown apart from each other and the things that used to be logical, as a basis for communication, have changed. People communicate on a basis of givens, or logical information. Cave men communicated through drawings, because they all had eyes (obviously) and they knew what the drawings were of because they looked like something they had already experienced and had felt feelings towards. And in this day and age, there is such a diversity of people and cultures that people can’t communicate as in; express feelings through different methods. The same sense may be communicated but the feelings and background of the communicated piece are not understood by the person receiving the information. So everyone is speaking from a different view point and that creates obstacles in our culture and other cultures that communicate with one another, hence all the political struggles and miscommunication. Being politically correct is becoming a huge debate and it all stems from our ability to communicate our thoughts and ideas without being misinterpreted and misunderstood. How can we change this ever growing problem? Get to know people for who they really are. Cross social boundaries and reach out to people who view things differently from you. Try and understand where they are coming from and keep an open mind. Most of all respect everyone’s differences, take time out to find your own language and don’t get lost in translation.
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Monday, October 2, 2006 - are we taking cultural sensitivity too seriously?
circumstances recently have made it abundantly clear that in this day and age, people are waaay too sensitive about race, orgin, and any other cultural differences that may be disscused. I feel like i cant say anything without offending someone. just this weekend i was talking to someone on here about immigration, and i refered to one of my good friends as "brown" and now this person i was debating will no longer talk to me because he sees me as a biggot and a racist bastard!!! I love all people equally. yes, i realize that it might hurt people by what i say, but i cant live my life wondering and trying not to offend someone. now i know cultural norms and such from which i should abide by yet i know that some things are just getting out of hand. a famous laywer made a statement in court in 2005 that the common phrase "politically correct" or "pc" is "culturally insensite and a offensive phrase!!!! can you believe that? and thanks to PCphrases.com i have copied a list of terms and YOU tell me what you think about it. i will expand on this topic tomorrow.
A Criminal - unsavory character
A Crook - morally (ethically) challenged
Abortion - Near-Life Experience
Alcoholic - Anti-Sobriety Activist
Alive - temporarily metabolically abled.
An Immigrant - a newcomer
Assassination - involuntary term limitation
Bald - comb-free
Bald - folically independent
Bald - follicularly challenged.
Battle Fatigued - shellshocked
Blind - optically darker
Blind - photonically non-receptive
Blind - visually challenged
Body Odor - nondiscretionary fragrance.
Broken Down Automobile - mechanically challenged
Broken Home - Dysfunctional Family
Bum - Displaced Homeowner
Bum - Homeless Person
Bum - Involuntarily Domiciled
Cannibalism - Intra-Species Dining
Censorship - Selective Speech
Cheating - Academic Dishonesty
China - Porcelain
Chronically Late - Temporarily Challenged
Clumsy - uniquely coordinated
Commercial Fisherman - Flipper Whipper
Computer Illiterate - Technologically Challenged
Corpse - Permanently Static Post-Human Mass
Corpse / Stiff - Metabolically Challenged
Corpse / Stiff - Terminally Inconvenienced
Cowardly - Challenge Challenged
Cowboys - bovine control officers
Crackpot - certified astrological consultant, certified crystal therapist, or certified past-life regression hypnotist
Crime Rate - street activity index
Dead - Actuarially Mature
Dead - biologically challenged
Dead - environmentally correct human
Dead - living impaired
Dead - metabolically challenged
Dead - persons living with entropy
Deaf - Visually Oriented
Delicatessen - Corpse Farm
Dirty Old Man - sexually focused chronologically gifted individual
Dish Washer - utensil sanitizer
Dishonest - Ethically disoriented.
Dorm - Residence Hall
Drooling Drunk Idiot - person on floor
Drowning - aquatically challenged
Drug Addict - Chemically Challenged
Drunk - spacially perplexed
Drunk / Junkie - in recovery
Earthquake - geological correction
Fail - achieve a deficiency.
Fat - Differently Weighted
Fat - gravitationally challenged
Fat - horizontally challenged.
Fat - horizontally gifted
Fat - People of Mass
Fat - person of substance
Fictional / Mythological - ontologically challenged
Freshman - first-year student
Frog - amphibian American
Full of Crap - fecally plenary
Gang - Youth Group
Garbage Man - sanitation engineer
Gas Station Attendent - petroleum transfer technician
Geek, Nerd, whatever... - socially challenged
Ghetto / Barrio - Ethnically Homogenous Area
Hamburger - Seared Mutilated Animal Flesh
Handicapped - Differently Abled, Handi-Capable
Having PMS - cyclically challenged
Hearing Person - temporarily aurally abled
Homeless - outdoor urban dwellers
Homeless - residentially flexible
Homelessness - Mortgage-Free Living
Housebroken - Family Disfunction
Housewife - domestic engineer
Hunter - Animal Assassin
Hunter - Bambi Butcher
Hunter - Meat Mercenary
Ignorant - factually unencumbered
Ignorant - knowledge-based nonpossessor.
Incompetent - Differently Qualified
Incompetent - Specially Skilled
Incompetent - Uniquely Proficient
Insane People - Mental Explorers
Insane People - Selectively Perceptive
Insult - Emotional Rape
Janitor - sanitation engineer
Klutz - kinesthetically challenged
Large Nose - nasally gifted
Lazy - motivationally dispossessed
Lazy - motivationally deficient.
Learning Disability - Self-Paced Cognitive Ability
Library - Educational Resource Center
Logger - Wood Weasel
Logger - Paper Pirate
Logger -Treeslayer
Loser - Second Place
Loser - uniquely fortuned individual on an alternative career path
Man-hole - maintenance hole
Mankind - humankind
MANkind, HuMAN, PerSON - Earth Children
Mercy Killing - Euthanasia
Mercy Killing - Putting Down/To Sleep/Out of Misery
Messy - differently organized
Meter Maid - Parking enforcer
Midget / Dwarf - Little People
Midget / Dwarf - Vertically Challenged
Mute/Dumb - verbally challenged
Not with somebody at the moment - romantically challenged -
Off - energy-efficient
Old - chronologically gifted
Old Person / Elderly - Gerontologically Advanced
Old Person / Elderly - Senior Citizens
Panhandler - Unaffiliated applicant for private-sector funding.
Paper Bag - processed tree carcass
Perverted - Sexually dysfunctional.
Pimp-mobile / Low-rider - Culturally Responsive Transportation Option
Plagiarism - Previously Owned Prose
Po' - financially inept
Policeman, Policewoman - law inforcement officer
Poor - economically marginalized
Poor - Economically Unprepared
Poor - monetarily challenged
Postman - letter carrier
Pregnant - parasitically oppressed.
Prisoner - client of the correctional system
Prostitute - sex care provider
Psychobabble - constructivist feminist psychotherapy
Psychopath - socially misaligned
Racist - genetically discriminating
Really Big Nosed - nasally disadvantaged
Redneck - person of region
Redneck - rustically inclined
Refugees - asylum seekers
Road Kill - Vehicularly Compressed Maladapted Life Form
Rudeness - Tact Avoidance
Runny Nose - nasally gifted
Senile Bag o' Bones - Alzheimer's Victim
Serial-Killer - Person with difficult-to-meet needs.
Shoplifter - Cost-of-Living Adjustment Specialist
Short - vertically challenged
Sighted Person - temporarily visually abled
Slum - Economic Oppression Zone
Slut - suffering from a sex addiction (female)
Someone who has no other reason to park in a handicapped zone - morally handicapped
Spendthrift - negative saver.
Stained - creatively re-dyed
Steward, Stewardess - flight attendant
Stoned - Chemically inconvenienced.
Stud - suffering from a sex addiction (male)
Stupid - differently-brained
Stupid - intellectually impaired
The Elderly - Senior citizens
Thin - horizontally challenged
Thirsty - osmotically challenged
Tone Deaf - musically delayed
Too old/young - other aged
Too Tall - people of height
Tree-Hugger - environmental activist
Trees - Oxygen Exchange Units
Ugly - aesthetically challenged
Ugly - Cosmetically different.
Ugly - facially challenged
Unemployed - Involuntarily leisured.
Used Books - Recycled Books
Vagrant - Nonspecifically destinationed individual.
Vegetable - noble unconscious hero
Vice President - Post-Coronary Leader of the Free World
Vocal Minority - target equity group
Vomiting - Unplanned Reexamination of Recent Food Choices
Waiter, Waitress - food server
War-Monger - Peacekeeper, patriot
Welfare Bum - economically disadvantaged
Whaler - Blubber Lover
White - melanin-impoverished
White American - racially challenged
White Boy - rhythmically challenged
White Trash - caucasian culturally-disadvantaged
Wife - unpaid sex slave
Worst - least best.
Wrong - differently logical.
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