Are people truly free to have their own opinions in the United States of America today?

Are people free to have their own opinions, right or wrong, and express them freely without being arrested, rebuked by media, or intimidated by people who are involved in social engineering projects in the U.S.A.?

Are people truly free to have their own opinions in the United States of America today?
Yes. Free speach can still be limited only in time, place, and manner, not content. People are not forced to give you a forum and they are free to shout you down, but even this ultra conservative supreme court, with some exceptions like students, has still defended this fundamental right.
Reply:Yes, they are... There haven't been any instances where people have been arrested for expressing their views.





There are limitations to where you can publicly speak your mind... ie. Soldiers funerals, which is a private function and protesters shall remain away from the family. The stuff that just happened in Cali with Marine recruits... they took it to the extreme and were physically holding people back, and pretty much holding the people inside hostage...





But yes... we are allowed to say whatever we want...
Reply:They can have their own opinion, but you can't always express it on TV without getting into trouble. Also if you get enough people to start following your ideas you are likely to get assassinated, like a large majority of really great american people that have existed so far.





So i would say that you can speak freely as long as nobody is listening.





Or so long as you choose to speak freely in accordance with the dominant ideology.
Reply:Nope
Reply:On paper and in theory we are, but in reality no. If a person is one who gains the attention of the mass public (such as a celebrity or politician) you are usually scrtinized to the last detail. Arrested for your ideals usually not, rebuked and intimidated for your ideals is assured.
Reply:No you need to look no further then where you are ? The hate of other peoples opinions is getting stronger ? So beware the opinionated police are near ?
Reply:Absolutely mate, I have more oppinions about the USA than most canadians do... though I am an Australian!
Reply:No, we aren't I think it it's quite wrong but think about it, having more than one wife is illegal, marrying the same sex is illegal, I mean I wouldn't ever do those things but why is illegal I mean murrdering sould be illegal but what is wrong with with marrying another girl?
Reply:There is no police force anywhere in the US that knocks down your door or even knocks ON your door if you say what some government agency does not want you to say. There are rules about not exposing national secrets; you cannot libel someone; you cannot shout "fire" in a crowded theater; you cannot incite a riot; and there are numerous other similar laws. But these are all logical to us, tried in our courts where sometimes the government loses, sometimes we lose.


But I have no fear of saying things about the Bush administration, for example, and finding myself being tailed by the FBI.

Who thinks current events has lost its way?

As we have media overload anything is a current event .Even my social life .Which puts Amy Winehouse to shame

Who thinks current events has lost its way?
It needs a new sat nav
Reply:Current Events. Despite our best efforts, it's possible, although improbable, to lose its way.


The media primarily reinforce existing views that people hold. We should not expect current events to bring about major or rapid changes in people attitudes. Best used Y!A to provide factual information and that knowledge over time helps to change people's attitudes.


Use Y!A effectively but without exaggerating.
Reply:Amy Whitehouse.... hhhhhhaaa I'm in dream land....


Did you buy the Daily Mail yesterday ?


After yesterday Daily Mail.... I'm hooked.....


What a pee-oo-tee.... she is an absolute pee-oo-tee
Reply:I agree, would you believe, someone was asking the time on current events, how ridiculous is that? Now about your social life??????????
Reply:Current Events has not lost its way, only those who seek to stifle Freedom of speach by their constant reporting have lost there way
Reply:Who's amy whitehouse?
Reply:I didn't know it was going anywhere..
Reply:Did it ever have a 'way' to begin with?!
Reply:What do You actually want form it?.......if it bores you i suggest you find an alternative site.....
Reply:me
Reply:I don't really know as I haven't been ob long enough.
Reply:I don't. Like it or not we live in interesting times.

Movies that have to do with injustice?!?!?

for my social justice class, we have to find a piece of media that has a scene that has to deal with a social justice issue like immigration, poverty, racism, environment. Any ideas? Thanks for any help..

Movies that have to do with injustice?!?!?
Lola,


Boys Don't Cry. {Based on the rape and murder of Brandon Tina.]


Solder's Girl' [Based on the beating death of Private First Class Barry Winchell.]


Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story


PennyAnn
Reply:Life and Debt
Reply:A Time to Kill


The Milagro Beanfield Wars


Do the Right Thing


Roger and Me


Billy Jack


Norma Rae


American History X


The Hurricane


The World of Suzie Wong


Madame Butterfly


The Teahouse of the August Moon
Reply:Higher Learning, Dangerous Minds, Ghosts of Mississippi, Erin Brockovich, Hart's War....
Reply:AMISTAD covers everything you just mentioned. Also try MISS EVERS' BOYS, TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, SOMETHING THE LORD MADE and PARIS TROUT, which is one of the hardest movies for me to watch, even today.
Reply:Philadelphia





To Kill a Mockingbird





The Green Mile





Erin Brockovich





the play "The Exonnerated"





American History X
Reply:Black Like Me
Reply:One interesting film is "From here to Eternity".


A big part of the film is about how a big, strong bad guy gets over on a smaller, weaker heroic guy. The smaller guy is Frank Sinatra and what happens to him in the film is tragic.


So the social injustice is basically about the strong over the weak. The scene where Sinatra goes back to the jail says it all.
Reply:To Kill a Mockingbird


A Time to Kill


Erin Brockovich





OMG - someone needs to slap me for putting those movies in the same category.
Reply:To kill a mocking bird





inherit the wind- Reilly good one





And the band played on





But the best one for you i think





Angels in America

Republicans and Democrats /// Torture of Terrorists /// Abu Ghraib?

Democrats are so shameless. They make me sick and clearly only care about 1 thing. GETTING INTO POWER!!!!


Here is a long winded example of Democratic tactics employed to gain power and destroy America in the proccess.





ABU GHRAIB: MASS MEDIA








INTRODUCTION





Although in recent months, Abu Ghraib has not been making front page news, it is still an issue at large in the United States and the world. Millions around the globe witnessed shocking images of tortured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib at the hands of their American captors; the reaction was anger and outrage. The constant bombardment of shocking photos and articles made sure that everyone knew about the problem at hand. And that something needed to happen to resolve this issue.


In this paper I will be exploring the mass media coverage of the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. I will examine a few different media outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington times. I will also attempt to compare the amount of coverage given to Abu Ghraib by the two newspapers as well as the underlying motives of the liberal New York Times and the conservative Washington times. Also, I will be examining the Abu Ghraib coverage broadcasted on national television in the United States. CNN, a known liberal news station and The Fox News Channel a known conservative news station will be my mediums. I will be examining them to see if I can find distortions in the coverage, the amount of coverage, bias in the coverage, and more importantly the repercussions of the said statements from the newspaper and television.


I chose these particular news mediums because they are all well known and trusted institutions of news. Also it is important to understand that each carry their own political views, whether they are Republican or Democratic. That being said, I believe we will find many differences in the coverage of the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal between the news agencies








METHODS





To acquire data for my analysis of Abu Ghraib media coverage I turned to the primary sources themselves. By using the internet to review old articles and the fact that I constantly watch cable news, I was able to review a fair amount of data. Some of which is stuff I remember from watching CNN and FNC during the height of the Abu Ghraib pandemic.


By contacting staff writers at the Washington Times and using microfiche to review articles posted by the New York Times, I was able to see many differences in the media coverage. However, the internet proved to be the most valuable source in helping me compile my research. Depending on the key words used to research Abu Ghraib in the media I would get many different results. By typing in “Abu Ghraib” I would get websites that were mostly focused on the cold hard facts of the case without the left or right wing bias. However, when I typed in words like distortions, propaganda, and sensationalism attached with Abu Ghraib if found that the websites information changed dramatically. I noticed a great deal of what I would call finger pointing, people playing the blame game, character defamation, exaggerated truths and all out lies.


The three search engines I used where; Yahoo, Google, and Ask.com. For the most part the three search engines returned most of the same information but it is always nice to mix it up a little. It was difficult to sift through what I considered to be accurate coverage and what I will call uneducated coverage of the issue. Everyone’s got an opinion but I think it is best to just stick to the facts of the cases and use the comments and statements of accredited news agencies


In order to discuss differences in media coverage of Abu Ghraib I needed to first understand what actually happened at Abu Ghraib. To complete this task I used a number of internet sites describing the events that took place. Wikipedia on the web proved to be the most complete, unbiased information on the actual facts and timelines of the case.








BACKGROUND





In the early months of 2003, various abuses and “torture” tactics were being used on inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison. Private contractors, CIA officers, and U.S. armed forces were among the many individuals who would ultimately be charged with cruel and unusual treatment of prisoners. On April 28th, 2004, the emergence of various reports of abuse and graphic pictures of American’s abusing POW’s appeared in the international media. CBS aired an episode of 60 minutes 2 that went into graphic detail of the events at Abu Ghraib. The New York Times published an article on the abuse just 2 days later. I will go into greater details of this story later in this report.


The damage of this scandal to the U.S.’s credibility was tremendous. The news of the abuse reverberated throughout the entire Arab world, leading millions to believe that these instances represented a “broader American attitude of disrespect and violence towards Arabs ( J. White).” The U.S. countered by saying that the abuses were committed by a handful of low-ranking personnel, and that their individual actions did not represent the U.S. armed forces as a whole. In response to the scandal the removal of 17 officers from duty, the arrest 7 soldiers for dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault, and battery for which they were sent to prison, as well as 2 officers who spent 10 year prison terms.


Ironically, the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal, led by the U.S coalition, was not the first account of torture that the walls of the prison had seen. In fact, thousands of political prisoners held by Saddam Hussein were believed to have been tortured and murdered. “Up to 4 thousand prisoners are thought to have been executed there in 1984 alone. Prisoners were routinely executed, guards fed prisoners into plastic shredders, and there are even allegations that some of these detainees were subjected to experiments as part of Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons program. After Baghdad was invaded and the government was overthrown, the U.S. took over the prison where it would eventually come to hold over 5 thousand prisoners.














Washington Times





The Washington Times is a D.C. newspaper that reaches about 103,017 readers on a daily basis. It was created by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon to be the conservative counterpoint to the liberal Washington post. Both papers claimed to print neutral news coverage but reserve the right to print conservative and liberal opinions in the respective papers.


The Washington times is known and seen as a conservative newspaper. By conservative, I mean that their political views are in support of traditional values and the “existing social order.” The support of republicans in times of political discussions and events is also common place. This is precisely why we have seen a difference in the amount of coverage in Abu Ghraib by the New York Times versus the Washington Times.


According to Jennifer Harper, of the Washington times, positive images and accounts of the U.S. armed forces is rare. She goes on to give an example, “30 U.S. airmen and soldiers delivered school supplies and toys - gifts from American children - to an Iraqi village.” “Yesterday air force medical teams airlifted a critically ill infant and mother to an Ohio hospital for treatment.” The question is why are these stories being overshadowed by all the bad images of the war? The Washington times claims it does an excellent job at staying neutral.


The Washington times, as well as other agencies such as the Media Research Center, are very suspicious of the fact that there are broadcasters in news companies using their influence to build a case against the war in Iraq, as well as the Bush administration. Abu Ghraib proved to be the catalyst for many to turn away from the war on terror and question the legitimacy of the war in Iraq. For this reason, the Washington Times opted out of sensationalistic media coverage of the Abu Ghraib incident. The Washington Times was not one to publish a ridiculous amount of shock articles along with anger incising photographs to amplify the severity of the events. The liberal media has had no such qualms doing so; as the Washington Times has gone on to say in many of their articles.


Why would the Washington Times shy away from an obscene amount of coverage of Abu Ghraib? Why would they retaliate and say that the liberal media is using the scandal to undermine Bush’s war efforts. The answer is simple. We have a Conservative in office. The Washington Times and any conservative media for that matter do not want to see their poster boy’s image tarnished. It is in the Washington Times best interest to keep a republican in office and writing stories that discredit Bush’s control on the situation at hand would have a negative effect… As we have seen from the “bombardment of Abu Ghraib images from CBS, CNN, Washington Post, and especially the New York Times.”(O’Reilly, 2004)























Fox News Channel





Another entity with similar conservative ideology is the Fox News Channel, with their “hardballer” Bill O’Reilly. Fox News Channel was founded by Rupert Murdoch in an attempt to combat the liberal media. They operate under the slogans “Fair and Balanced”, “We report you decide”, and as Bill O’Reilly says, “your now entering a no spin zone.” Although Fox News Channel was criticized in the 2000 election for being the last to retract the call of Florida for Gore and first to call Florida for Bush, their record of being unbiased is pretty good.


Perhaps the most well known and noteworthy television personality on the Fox News Channel is Bill O’Reilly. He is known for his conservative political views, unorthodox methods of interviewing guests on his show, and sensational commentary. As someone who watches the O’Reilly Factor, it was not hard to compile the feelings and articles from O’Reilly on the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. However, O’Reilly does not believe he is either a conservative or a liberal. As he has stated time and time again.


In response to the Abu Ghraib scandal, O’Reilly was forthcoming to say that the photos did show abuse but was reluctant to admit that the photos showed what the New York Times Dubbed as torture. O’Reilly’s focus was more turned toward what he perceived as sensational coverage of Abu Ghraib by the leftist media and the consequences of their journalism. O’Reilly goes on to say that “the New York Times, of course is using the prisoner story to hammer the Bush administration and continue to do so, but here’s the unintended consequence of that. By creating hysteria over Abu Ghraib, the much more important war on terror story has vanished from the newspapers. Last weeks dog and pony show by Senators Kennedy and Bidden once again placed blame on the Bush Administration. And the senators did everything they could to mandate no coercive interrogations of suspected terrorists. Meantime foreign governments are encouraging suicide killers and we are the targets. Yet it’s all Abu Ghraib, all the time in much of the media, politics once again trumping your safety. He also states that the New York Times ran with 43 front page stories on Abu Ghraib in 47 days. An incredible amount of coverage.








New York Times





The New York Times is published in New York City but is an international newspaper. “It is owned by the New York Times Co. which also publishes some 40 other newspapers including the international Herald Tribune and the Boston Globe.” We will return to the Globe later in the essay. The New York Times is viewed by many to be a liberal newspaper. By liberal I mean that they are concerned with individual rights, civil liberties and the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor. Tax breaks for the poor are generally favored over tax breaks for the rich.


The New York Times is usually thought of as supporting the Democratic party. It has been suggested that “during presidential campaigns the paper systematically gives more coverage to democratic topics, but only when the incumbent president is a republican.” Based on these facts some might assume that the New York Times would have much to gain from extensive coverage of Abu Ghraib. Much like their opponent conservative paper, the New York Times has a stake in the reactions of their readers. For the liberal side of the news Abu Ghraib was the Holly Grail of leverage points.


There is no doubt that the New York Times covered the Abu Ghraib prison scandal extensively. In fact from April 29, 2004 to may 31, 2004 the Abu Ghraib scandal was on the front page of the New York Times in full color. A few of the 32 headlines read, Iraqi recounts hours of abuse by U.S. troops. The solider; from picture of pride is the symbol of abuse, and abuse; afghan deaths linked to a unit in Iraq. All articles painted vivid images of the tortured and mutilated Iraqis in the minds of Americans and the world. Many of the articles also attempted to illustrate the incompetence followed by the underhand ness by the bush administration and the U.S. armed forces as a whole.


One article in particular, Abu Ghraib, Stonewashed, published by the New York Times read, “while piously declaring its determination to unearth the truth about Abu Ghraib, the Bush Administration has spent nearly 2 months obstructing investigations by the army and members of congress. It has dragged out the Armies inquiry, withheld crucial government documents from a senate committee and stonewalled senators over dozens of Red Cross reports that document the horrible treatment of Iraqis at American military prisons.”(NYT 6/30/04). This seems to be one of the running themes in the liberal media.


As mentioned before the New York Times publishes the Boston Globe. Like the New York Times the Globe is also thought of as having liberal bias toward political issues. Apparently this bias carried over into the Abu Ghraib Prison scandal. “On May 11, 2004 after the Abu Ghraib photos were released, Boston City Council Chuck Turner called a news conference with activist Sadiki Kambo. At the conference Turner and Kambo claimed to have pictures of American soldiers raping Iraqi women which Kambo said he got from the Nation of Islam. The Americans have a right and responsibility to see the pictures, Turner said standing beside a poster showing some of these graphic photos.’ After three days it was found that the photos were blatant fakes and the Globe was forced to publicly apologize for reporting the case of abuse when the photos were nothing more the commercially produced pornography.”(Wikipedia, 04)Let’s hope the Iraqis got that omission.





CNN





Created by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld, CNN has been dubbed the most watched 24 hour news network in the world. It is available to 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries. Also being dubbed as the Clinton news network, CNN has come under scrutiny by conservatives for the practice of liberal bias in their reporting. CNN has been known to be a mouthpiece for the New York Times and the Washington Post. All three cover stories with the same slant and Abu Ghraib is really no different.


CNN’s coverage of Abu Ghraib was also extensive and made a habit of plastering shocking photos of tortured and tormented Iraqis at the hands of Americans. I also watch CNN. Its not to say that the coverage was inaccurate or untrue but the constant harping on the issue six months after the fact led many to believe that CNN had a greater hidden agenda in the reporting of the abuse case. Perhaps to discredit the Bush administration and make themselves look right righteous crusaders trying the uncover the truth, increasing the credibility of the left wing.








DISSCUSSION





In order to best understand the juxtaposition of the conservative and liberal media outlets we must first understand the broader situation going on. I will attempt to give you a condensed background of the political forces at work when dealing with Abu Ghraib and the media in general.


Currently we have a Republican president in office and have had one in office since 2000. This does not sit well with the Democrat very well. As we have seen in the 2000 election with the Florida recall and again in 2004 when the Democrats tried to get the votes of soldiers in Iraq disqualified from the count. A noteworthy side note, most US soldiers are supporters of Bush and his administration.


Perhaps the most determination aspect in the media has been the American lead war in Iraq. Since the beginning of the war, liberal have tried to slam Bush and the American people as I see it for going to war with the country that supposedly has nothing to do with terrorism. This is false. On the 16th of March, 1988 Saddam and his followers used chemical weapons on the Kurdish people in the town of Halabjah. Around 5000 people were murder, mostly civilians. The fact that the United States was unable to find weapons of mass destruction has been a staging point for much of the liberal criticism. Perhaps someone should tell that Iraq does have weapons of mass destruction and the United States has the receipt to prove it. A mistake made by the Reagan administration. However the weapons of mass destruction the debacle has gone away in the Liberal media was starving for a new media headline to discredit the Bush administration. Abu Ghraib would come to be the headline.


There is no doubt in my mind that what happen in AG was a horrible thing and those responsible should have been punished but was the constant streaming of torture photos really necessary. The unfortunate aspect for all the coverage of AG is that the problem had been uncovered and fixed by the military six months before the media ever caught wind of it. The way the media portrayed the issue was that the supposed torturers were going on daily basis when in fact the abuse had stopped. It wasn’t as if the media had uncovered the evil American’s torturing inmates, it was the military who discovered it and dealt with in accordingly. So I ask, if the Bush administration is so incompetent and don’t have a handle on the war and all its aspect (AG) then why were they the ones to uncover the problem and fix it.


Another problem I have with the coverage of Abu Ghraib was that of the photographs alone. When the Liberal media showed these pictures they never gave timelines of when the pictures were taken. They just showed pictures and led people to believe that these photos were taken over the course of weeks and even months when they were actually taken on the same day. Probably within hours of each other. But that not what the Liberal media would have you know. They attempted to make it look like the torture was an ongoing and everyday practice.


Tim Graham of the media research center noted that “this abuse story is just not going away” it is still the topic on most network news. And there strong focus of the court marshals, on the bad apples-its as if those troops represent the military at large as far as the media is concerned. The center has been following the bias problem among broadcasters who use the abuse story to build a case against the war in Iraq and the Bush administration. As a sample the group tracked abuse stories from April 29th to May 11th on NBC and found that the network aired 58 stories on abuse in that period. In the past year NBC only aired 5 stories on mass graves found in Iraq from the Saddam Hussein era. From this information it is easy to see where NBC, a known Liberal station, is focused.


Another aspect of the Abu Ghraib case that needs to be addressed is the flagrant use of the word torture. I believe that the word torture really needed to be evaluated and defined before the media as a whole began tossing it around. The context the word carries with it is very different from country to country, culture to culture. To a great deal of Americans the photos were disturbing but were not viewed as torture. To me most of the photos shoed nothing more than you would expect to see at a fraternity hazing. The others clearly showed textbook procedure in deal with a person you were interrogating. Although I do admit some of their marines actions went too far.


The media loved to share the image of an Army ranger restraining a snarling dog from ripping into an Iraqi they were interrogating. Using dogs and other high stressed tactics to get information out of detainees is completely legal. Though I think the public could have gone without seeing that image. If you were to ask Iraqis who lived under the murderer Saddam Hussein the Vietnamese and Bosnians if they though the pictures showed torture, they would laugh in your face. Torture I think not.

Republicans and Democrats /// Torture of Terrorists /// Abu Ghraib?
Uh, is there a question in there somewhere?





Both parties are primarily concerned with power. The republicans are no better than the democrats in that respect.
Reply:NOW YOU KNOW DAMNED WEL THAT THOSE MORAL REPUBLICANS WOULD NOT TORTUE A PERSON THAT WOULD BE UNCHRISTAN. YOU KNOW THEY ARE CHRISTANS BECAUSE THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT THEY ARE THE PARTY WITH MORALS. LOL. THEY ALSO GO THE CHRISTAN COLATION SUPORTING THEM AND OLD PAT ROBINSON IS LEAD THAT FINE POLITICAL BUNCH. HE IS THE GUY THAT LIED ABOUT SENDING SOMEONE TO KILL HUGO CHAVEZ. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT A MINISTER OF GOD WOULD DO A THING LIKE THAT IN FRONT OF THE NATION.
Reply:Get off your soapbox. Is there a question in there? I didn't even read it.
Reply:Well republicans make me sick and they are interested in only one thing holding on to power.
Reply:Excellent essay. Although I agree that with your point about the muzzled dogs not being torture, using the argument that our techniques are no where near as bad as methods used by other nations does not make our methods neccessarily right. But I do agree that Abu Graib was blown way out of proportion, though it was disgusting (except for the dogs).
Reply:is it not every party's purpose to get into pwer, maybe you should stop listening to the propaganda.





Over here in Scotland everyone realises that ALL polititians talk absolute shite and to take their word on anything is riskin your all.





Quiet frankly anyone who offers an interest in politics should be shot at the earliest age - they all lie!!!
Reply:Gosh, that was a big one, I need a new wheel for my mouse now, are you buying ?





They are all corrupt, it does not matter who you lot vote for it will just be more of the same.

dental supply

Easy to points to the first person who can guide me in the right direction!?

A local radio station has asked you to participate in an expert panel discussion regarding the role of media in political and terrorism related crimes. Specifically, you have been invited to speak on how the media and modern means of sharing information quickly can help facilitate the goals of politically motivated criminals (such as groups that sponsor suicide attacks) and whether or not media is used in a similar manner by law enforcement (e.g., missing child alerts). Analyze and evaluate the media's role in publicizing criminal acts and assisting law enforcement to disseminate information. Assess how the use of the media by both groups (criminals seeking to accomplish political or social aims versus police and law enforcement) relates to our societal values of freedom of speech and free access to information. Create an outline for your discussion that you could use to effectively cover the subject during the radio broadcast.

Easy to points to the first person who can guide me in the right direction!?
Here's my guide: pull out your textbook and class notes, review them, and do your homework.

Why do white guys hate seeing Asian guys with white women but support Asian female white male relationships?

Seriously, be real about it and admit your hypocrisy.


White guys who answer these posts always leave this out of their argument about how it's ok for everybody including Asian guys to accept these relationships when these are the same people who would denounce relationships between Asian males and white females. This is obvious by the way the white media in this country pair up Asian females with White males 90-99% of the time when the majority of Asian relationships are between Asian females and Asian males. The media doesn't do this to women of any other race hence you don't see those women have a thing for white males in the same proportion as Asian females.


The influence of the media towards it's targeted audiance has been proven to be substantial in study after study. The media has a substantial affect on Asians in this country because their population is smaller than other ethnic groups here. There is also a lack of an Asian American culture in America leading to a lack of a defined Asian American identity. Look at it this way, African Americans have a defined African American Identity (black music, black stars etc), White Americans have a defined white identity (white music, white stars etc), Hispanics have a defined Hispanic identity (Hispanic music, hispanic stars etc). Asians in this country really don't have an Asian American culture so the majority of them will take up either a white identity or a black identity. In essence, it's like having an Asian person that looks Asian on the outside but are either white or black on the inside.





How the media conditions Asians in the country and how it divides Asians Americans: The media portrays Asian females and Asian males divergently. Asian females are paired up with white males the majority of the time yet the majority of Asian relationships in this country are between Asian males and Asian females. The American media almost never pair up Asian males with white females even though these relationships, though fewer than AF/Wm relationships make up a portion of Asian reltionships in this country. What you have then is a mirroring effect of how the media actually conditions Asian Americans to socialize in this country. Asian guys can get white women and women of any other race as can be seem in this website:





http://www.aznlover.com/vbulletin/showth...





The problem with the distortion of Asian interracial relationships is that the media gives a thumbs up to Asian female interractial relationships-showing this mostly with white males, sometimes with black males and almost never with hispanic males and you get the mirroring effect of social dynamics for Asians in this country. One has to ask why the media continues to portray Asian females with nonAsian males the majority of the time when Asian female Asian males male up the majority of Asian relationships in this country. The media doesn't do this with women of any other race.





Link to what happens when the one way conditioning of the old media gives way to the internet.





http://www.proudasianamerican.com/Articl...





Links to media influence:


http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro...





http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro...





http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro... The white male dominated media does not like to portray Asian males with white females because they know what giving a thumbs up to these kinds of relationships can do. Imagine what would happen if 90-99% of all media portrayals of Asian males are with white females and Asian males are portrayed in the most positive light while Asian women are dogged out in the media. There'd be a pretty dramatic impact on Asian interracial relationships in this country.

Why do white guys hate seeing Asian guys with white women but support Asian female white male relationships?
Boooo! Quit stereotyping.
Reply:I think you had a good point but you rambled way too long. I lost interest after the 3rd paragraph of your question. Report It

Reply:Hey point me in the direction of the asian males I've had my fair share of white american men %26gt;%26lt; Report It

Reply:I'm an Asian guy with a white gf. Her bro hates my guts because I'm Asian, neither of us gives a sh*t what he thinks. So unless it hinders you, don't let it bother you. Report It

Reply:Hey, I've run into you before, speaking about this very topic. You seem to be very into it. Report It

Reply:If you go to a white school and you are asian or as in like a high school, I would know how you feel. I'm in a middle of that process right now. I'm just a freshman. Report It

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Reply:Because alot of them are insecure and feel like thier women are being taken away. It's the stupid discrimination thing.. it's crap it shouldn't matter, women are women and men are men..color should never be an issue.
Reply:I've never heard anyone speak critically of asian male - white female relationships. Ever.





My guess is the reason that you see less asian male - white female relationships then the converse is that most women like to date men who are taller then them, and first generation asian males are often shorter then natural born western white women. This is much less true for second generation and later asian males who grow up with a western diet.





One friend of mine in university was a tall asian male, my sister was pretty interested in him actually. He dated lots of white women, and I'm not aware of any backlash against it.
Reply:Sorry! I don't really give a rat'sas.s who's with whom, and I'm white. Got me confused with a racist maybe?
Reply:Why would we care if you date white women? I have an asian friend who ONLY dates white women, he refuses to talk to asian women. I don't know anyone who cares about that.
Reply:Im a caucatian male of Irish descent and I could care less if Asian guys date white girls. However, Ive never seen a white girl and an Asian guy together.
Reply:You probably are incapable of realizing or understanding this, but if you were a caucasian (non-hyphenated American) saying this about any other ethnic group, you would be labeled a racist and ridiculed mercilously. Regardless, you do seem like a stereotyping, flaming racist to me.

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Prove me wrong white guys-regarding Asian female/white male interracial hypocrisy?

White guys who answer these posts always leave this out of their argument about how it's ok for everybody including Asian guys to accept these relationships when these are the same people who would denounce relationships between Asian males and white females. This is obvious by the way the white media in this country pair up Asian females with White males 90-99% of the time when the majority of Asian relationships are between Asian females and Asian males. The media doesn't do this to women of any other race hence you don't see those women have a thing for white males in the same proportion as Asian females.


The influence of the media towards it's targeted audiance has been proven to be substantial in study after study. The media has a substantial affect on Asians in this country because their population is smaller than other ethnic groups here. There is also a lack of an Asian American culture in America leading to a lack of a defined Asian American identity. Look at it this way, African Americans have a defined African American Identity (black music, black stars etc), White Americans have a defined white identity (white music, white stars etc), Hispanics have a defined Hispanic identity (Hispanic music, hispanic stars etc). Asians in this country really don't have an Asian American culture so the majority of them will take up either a white identity or a black identity. In essence, it's like having an Asian person that looks Asian on the outside but are either white or black on the inside.





How the media conditions Asians in the country and how it divides Asians Americans: The media portrays Asian females and Asian males divergently. Asian females are paired up with white males the majority of the time yet the majority of Asian relationships in this country are between Asian males and Asian females. The American media almost never pair up Asian males with white females even though these relationships, though fewer than AF/Wm relationships make up a portion of Asian reltionships in this country. What you have then is a mirroring effect of how the media actually conditions Asian Americans to socialize in this country. Asian guys can get white women and women of any other race as can be seem in this website:





http://www.aznlover.com/vbulletin/showth...





The problem with the distortion of Asian interracial relationships is that the media gives a thumbs up to Asian female interractial relationships-showing this mostly with white males, sometimes with black males and almost never with hispanic males and you get the mirroring effect of social dynamics for Asians in this country. One has to ask why the media continues to portray Asian females with nonAsian males the majority of the time when Asian female Asian males male up the majority of Asian relationships in this country. The media doesn't do this with women of any other race.





Link to what happens when the one way conditioning of the old media gives way to the internet.





http://www.proudasianamerican.com/Articl...





Links to media influence:


http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro...





http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro...





http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro... The white male dominated media does not like to portray Asian males with white females because they know what giving a thumbs up to these kinds of relationships can do. Imagine what would happen if 90-99% of all media portrayals of Asian males are with white females and Asian males are portrayed in the most positive light while Asian women are dogged out in the media. There'd be a pretty dramatic impact on Asian interracial relationships in this country.

Prove me wrong white guys-regarding Asian female/white male interracial hypocrisy?
Was that a question?





I'm married to a Thai woman, by the way. That should leave an extra white girl available for you if you so desire.
Reply:Daniel - I'm sure you mean well with your answer - but I can assure you, that white girl that's "available" is UNLIKELY to date an Asian Guy.





The next time you see an asian/white combination. Note, which one's the male and which ones the female. You'll almost never see the opposite happen... Report It

Reply:Daniel has demeaned Asian males and any females in this subject by saying "extra white girls" being available (for ranting Asian American male). This issue falls into two separate categories, "interracial, " %26amp; "marginality" of Asian Male, unfamiliar with "machismo" images in "consumer" cultures. Report It

Reply:SIDEWINDER Many of my friends are Asian men with white girlfriends, my wife is Asian. As a group we get along fine. THese Asian men tha I speak they are my friends and I truly respect them. You must live in CA. I am in NY...It is tolerant here. Report It

Reply:Is it hypocracy?


Sex sells!





I think there is a valid reason for this in the sexual society today. Sterotypically the white male is a stronger/larger being than the asain male. The more "manly" of the two. While the Asian felmale is the smaller more petite, The essence of being female.





Honestly who would rather see a 5'6" male of Asain ethnicity, With a 5'7" white female?





I have worked in Asia, and the pacific Islands as a male dancer. I know that the Asain population has an attraction towards white male or female. However the female is generally more attracted to the "Alpha Male" which in most situations is not of Asian heritage.





I hope i have not offended you in anyway by defending the media. But the media only depicts what the viewing audience would like to see.
Reply:What is the question it seems like you have all the information above
Reply:Amen!
Reply:White men dont like to see white women going with other race of man and vice versa. Asian men ESPECIALLY dont like to see Asian women going with other races of man and vice versa. Thats just the way it is. Human nature.
Reply:Sounds like you might need this book:





http://www.amazon.com/How-Date-White-Wom...
Reply:Dude, WTF was your question?





You want to just rant, cool. But tell it like it is.


This is a rant about:





Personally, I could care less if a black guy dates/marries a white lady or an asian lady or a lady of color or a mexican lady or a...you get the point.





Nor do I care if an asian guy dates any of those.





Or a white guy.





Get freakin' real people. It is 2006. Not 1956. This race / color / religion bullshi* has got to go. It helps no one and hurts everyone.





All right, I'm done. Off my soapbox for a bit.
Reply:Did this have a point? Is it going anywhere? Is it a crime to use so many words when you don't have anything to say?

Why do Jews/white guys try to reverse their racism by telling you you're racist for -Asian female/white?

Why do hypocrites and racist Jews/white guys try to reverse their racism by telling you you're racist for pointing out the truth?


White guys who answer these posts always leave this out of their argument about how it's ok for everybody including Asian guys to accept these relationships when these are the same people who would denounce relationships between Asian males and white females. This is obvious by the way the white media in this country pair up Asian females with White males 90-99% of the time when the majority of Asian relationships are between Asian females and Asian males. The media doesn't do this to women of any other race hence you don't see those women have a thing for white males in the same proportion as Asian females.


The influence of the media towards it's targeted audiance has been proven to be substantial in study after study. The media has a substantial affect on Asians in this country because their population is smaller than other ethnic groups here. There is also a lack of an Asian American culture in America leading to a lack of a defined Asian American identity. Look at it this way, African Americans have a defined African American Identity (black music, black stars etc), White Americans have a defined white identity (white music, white stars etc), Hispanics have a defined Hispanic identity (Hispanic music, hispanic stars etc). Asians in this country really don't have an Asian American culture so the majority of them will take up either a white identity or a black identity. In essence, it's like having an Asian person that looks Asian on the outside but are either white or black on the inside.





How the media conditions Asians in the country and how it divides Asians Americans: The media portrays Asian females and Asian males divergently. Asian females are paired up with white males the majority of the time yet the majority of Asian relationships in this country are between Asian males and Asian females. The American media almost never pair up Asian males with white females even though these relationships, though fewer than AF/Wm relationships make up a portion of Asian reltionships in this country. What you have then is a mirroring effect of how the media actually conditions Asian Americans to socialize in this country. Asian guys can get white women and women of any other race as can be seem in this website:





http://www.aznlover.com/vbulletin/showth...





The problem with the distortion of Asian interracial relationships is that the media gives a thumbs up to Asian female interractial relationships-showing this mostly with white males, sometimes with black males and almost never with hispanic males and you get the mirroring effect of social dynamics for Asians in this country. One has to ask why the media continues to portray Asian females with nonAsian males the majority of the time when Asian female Asian males male up the majority of Asian relationships in this country. The media doesn't do this with women of any other race.





Link to what happens when the one way conditioning of the old media gives way to the internet.





http://www.proudasianamerican.com/Articl...





Links to media influence:


http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro...





http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro...





http://www.troubledwith.com/stellent/gro... The white male dominated media does not like to portray Asian males with white females because they know what giving a thumbs up to these kinds of relationships can do. Imagine what would happen if 90-99% of all media portrayals of Asian males are with white females and Asian males are portrayed in the most positive light while Asian women are dogged out in the media. There'd be a pretty dramatic impact on Asian interracial relationships in this country.

Why do Jews/white guys try to reverse their racism by telling you you're racist for -Asian female/white?
The mainstream media in our contry does NOT represent reality at all. Instead they are mere propaganda machines who want a smooth earnings flow from advertisers to push their consumerism agenda.





And the U.S. media %26amp; entertainment industry is dominated by a SPECIFIC type of white male and don't forget that: middle aged Jewish men.





The internet and sites with independent commentary backed by facts are a much better source of information that any "mainstream" media TV channel.
Reply:Too much to read and I smell race bashing! Report It

Reply:To much to read. Just relax and enjoy life and forget about who ever is talking their crap.
Reply:The reason the high percentage of white males and asian females is because, there is positive idscrimation and adverts to to include one member from each race. I have witnessed first had agencys ask for a white person to be made to look like an asian. How bad is that. also you would do well to remember whos country you are in!!! Whites as a percentage out number all other races and therfore we should have a greater amount of advertising dirrected towards us. It is only fair.
Reply:I read like half of this...its too long. Anyway, I have no idea what you are...but I'm asian and know for sure that I have my asian culture and am neither embracing white or black culture. I don't know where you're coming from...but let me tell you...no matter what the media says or does...if you are asian and know your culture you don't need to media to proove that we have culture. Asian have a very old and long standing culture and media will never matter to the asians who know our culture...screw media the smart people of this world know that media is all brainwashing crap...so stop nagging and start living..
Reply:Oh boy, what are you on? You are flying! Suggest a relaxing coca cola with a nap afterwards LOL. You are gonna crash and burn if you don't slow down. Nobody will read all those words anyway, I sure didn't
Reply:i get your point,im not sure i buy it. your question might be how does the media benefit from their position. find a motive and it may help in understanding a cause. do you think that the media stands to gain from these couplings. ive alway respected asians for asimulating well into the American culture and that they seem to excell at a faster rate than most because they work hard and are devoted to their work,they want to earn respect by doing a good job and many do. that is what i think of as asian culture.
Reply:The media portrays a lot of things my friend and this is the one you are worried about? How about violence or women being exploited over and over again? I meant women in general not just white women...wouldn't want any confusion.
Reply:Dude, who are you trying to fool. I am sorry if you are having an identity crisis, but most ppl do what they want in this country and damn the consequences. If you want to date a white girl, I basically don't care. I lost my virginity to a Japanese girl, have dated black girls, married (and thank God divorced) a Latina. So if you can find a white girl who wants to ride your rice sized penis, knock it out.
Reply:asian sister or brother, chill! love , don't hate, it's never good to hate, being a chinese american growing up and living a irish town I say I know how you feel but you know what.





white jew can also be good people and asian can be an AS###### too so just be a LOVER AND NOT A HATER.





Now I got to Middle east next year to kill some you know what so you have your right of speech. You just keep talking sister/brother.

Being serious,if you are gay?

if you r a gay do u think u were bon that way or did u decide to be like yhat?If u were born like yhat do u think that if it is a gene thing it can be cured or do u think it is a choice thing?Is a rapist born arapist or does he decide to be one ?not saying sodomites are rapists although some r like all sections of society r.Or is it social influence,chikdren r continually being sexuallized by mass media,is that y some people turn queer


1 more question,as the anus is not by nature desighn to be a sex orrifice does it not cause health problems by doin things like that?I am not dissin men buggerers or catamites i am just wanting to know some of the answers to these questions

Being serious,if you are gay?
wow so many questions,


from a fellow " why would you wanna do that " person.


%26amp; as i've just had 12 points removed,


( i have so many now do i really give a toss! )


they don't get it or is that they do %26amp; we're all jealous! ha ha


jealousy has nothing to do with the medical problems they'll face later on in life for using their bum, for a purpose it was not designed for.


report you? for what?


asking a valid %26amp; enquiring question.


no, worries we all get reported even if we state facts which are against their preferred orientation.


they don't get it now %26amp; won't get it tomorrow.


shrug your shoulders at least it's not your bum!
Reply:thanx i got my points back


%26amp; like i say i have so many now i really don't care!


cheers NSC Report It

Reply:yes well done you've cracked it.....the media made them gay, and even though you grew up with exactly the same media you did not....you grew up retarded, is there a cure for that?





and the anus is a 'sex orifice' as you say for lots and lots of people, not just gay men. are you asking cos you want to try it?
Reply:Gay people are born that way - it is not a choice!





Why is that so-called straight people are so curious about gays? Get a life and let us live ours! OK?





Mike %26amp; Nick
Reply:If you dont mean to be rude why call gay men buggerers!?! Im not being funny mate but you really need to get a life and do one!!!!!!!! I think a question like this is totally unnecessary! did you decide to be straight?? or is that just what you see as normal?? there is no norm and there is no wonder that there is so much hatred in the world with peple like you in it!!!! now get back to your straight box and leave the gay community alone!!!!

Why do Americans seem determined to divide the nation over partisan politics?

There has been a masive surge of name calling, and trash talking between Democrats and Repulicans. How is endless arguing over gay rights, abortion, social programs, foreign policy and any other issue the media tells us is important going to strenthen the nation?

Why do Americans seem determined to divide the nation over partisan politics?
because we're stupid. i hate the idea of 2 major political parties. part of divide and conquer ideology.


sad sad sad
Reply:Its called Divide and Conquer.We are weak alone,but strong as one people.
Reply:There are bigger forces at work here than the two parties. The Illuminati. check out this link.
Reply:Thank you!!!!! But it may be time for all of us to consider who is manipulating us to think this way? Approximately 2% of the world's population control in one way or another about 80+% of the world's resources. What better way to divert attention to this fact than to "spin" us into petty bickering?





The most important struggle in the world is that between the have-almost-all-of-its v. the rest of us. If we ever get wise, I think they are badly outnumbered.





question everything, no matter who says it. God gave us brains to use, so start using them.
Reply:The American mainstream has woken up to the hate on the far Right and now the losing right is having a fit.





As a former Republican I am amazed at how many conservtives openly avoid facts and speak in cliches they picked up on talk radio.
Reply:Petty bickering does divide the ranks...but bipartisan politics is actually designed to narrow our interests into one vs the other, and not allow for other candidates room.





Consider how efficiently it was manipulated when there were two members of Skull and Bones, cousins Dubya and Kerry, two cheeks of the same @$$ on the previous election.





Taught for generations that "Votes for an independant is like throwing your vote away", the voters believe this and choose the lesser of two evils, rather than actively seeking out any alternative, independant candidate.





Furthermore, the air time allowed for politics is highly dependent upon money. Yes, money - through donations, sock fund money, trusts, businesses - and business partners who enter into politics to forward their multi-billion dollar enterprises.





There are so many millions of layers upon layers of interrelated and inherent problems that have infected our nation - a nation founded by the finest ideals - that it is becoming increasingly difficult to form a solid solution.





Then - there's the mass media. ClearChannel Communications and Murdoch's other enterprises. More nested centers of multi-billion dollar businesses - it's all business.





Gay rights vs the Patriot Act. Social programs vs the Military Commissions Act. Show one problem, show one celebrity marriage/divorce/cleavage, and neglect to show matters being actively voted on - Net Neutrality....





Yes, we see it, after actively looking at it....just like the magician who waves his handkercheif in one hand, and the smart kid who watches the other hand reaching under the enclosed table, we see that there are mechanisms that we're not "supposed" to see...





The question *should* be...what do we plan to do about it?





Shutting up,


-the_kcar-

dentures

The South?

I need help with a research paper i'm writing:





How do outsiders view the South based on historical, cultural, and social grounds?





How is the South represented in the media and in art?





How would you compare/contrast different interpretations of the south, and how did these interpretations come to be?





How do race and/or gender affect how someone participates in a conversation about the South?





Why do these issues matter on a personal, cultural, and political level?

The South?
Look under the term "Redneck" and you will find what the stereotype of a Southerner is to most Americans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck





Good Luck!!!
Reply:How do outsiders view the South based on historical, cultural, and social grounds?


Southerners are some of the most stereotyped people in America. Historically they are less educated (think mainly agragarian society during the industrial revolution) their schools were not as good as the north, as a whole their cities were more spead out and the lack of unity and cetralization wreaked havoc on their education system. Culturally you could look at anyone and say they do weird things. But southerners eat strange things like grits and spam and collards and okra and jesus christ the sweet tea. They also say things like "mash the button" "cut the light on" and call a tobaggan a hat when it is clearly a sled.


Socially there is still hatred and segregation in the south. It is not by any means as pronounced as say 50 years ago, but some blacks in the south to this day hate white people. For no other reason than because they are white. It is very strange.





How is the South represented in the media and in art? OK just think Dukes of Hazzard, The Andy Griffith Show, King of the Hill. Southerns are portrayed as yee-hawing, racist, stupid, alcoholics on the negative side of it. Their positive qualities very hospitible and friendly.





How would you compare/contrast different interpretations of the south, and how did these interpretations come to be? Well I think since the Civil war the south has always been the wild child atleast in the mind of southerners. They are the rebels, the ones who didn't win, but dammit if they had the resources and another crack at it they would... blah blah blah, so yeah I would blame the civil war for most of it. But since the south was mainly an agragarian society for so long, a certain slowness did develop in them. Maybe it is all of the sunshine or lack of cold weather, but the south as a whole is not in a big hurry. They talk slower down here... and talk substantially more! They seem to always have time to discuss things. There are also historical reasons for the "baptist bible thumping movement" view and the specifics you will have to look up, however I do know there were two big religious movements where some groups went out and conjured up some new members, in cluding the Baptists. The people who lived here didn't have much religion to speak of so they took it gladly and thus the south filled up with evangelical christians. The Blacks and their hand clapping was a child of their native religion combined with a form of christianity and this too has profoundly affected the Southerner's religious cast.





How do race and/or gender affect how someone participates in a conversation about the South? Race is a big one for obvious reasons. (the whole slave thing) Gender is tougher, it may be influcenced by the whole southern girls are easy idea. Or just the idea that southern accent implies low IQ.





Why do these issues matter on a personal, cultural, and political level? On a personal level we should strive to look past someone's eating habits, accent, and world view to see that they are a person and just as what they do seems strange to us, we may seem slightly foreign to them also.


Culturally although we come from pretty much the same background, historically the south has grown up almost completely differently than the north despite being separated by a few hundred miles and this difference has been reflected largely in their culture (once again think slave holding farmers vs. blue collar mill workers).


Politically it has been tough for southerns. They are cast as historically conservative repblican with a crazy streak. (think george w.) and add an accent commonly associated with bible thumping and stupidity, that doesn't make for a good career in politics... unless you happen to be running in the south. ha
Reply:Get on your search engine and find your own answers. You will learn more that way.
Reply:Oustiders view the south as a cosmopolitan melting pot on the basis of the south's long history of tolerant multiculturalism.





Southerners are represented in the media as the well educated, cosmopolitan, tolerant renaissance people that they are.





The only interpretations of the south that matter are from those people who actually live in the south. If you've never lived there, you don't know squat.





African Americans and other people of color obviously have a more positive opinion of the south.





Take a good look at answer #1

My Madrassa (Islamic Seminary) education helped me develop a very high moral values and fine character. for u?

my early years in madrassa, a tiny religious school adjacent to our mosque helped me become a human being of a fine character and inculcate a high moral values. with the break of dawn we proceed to mosque for our dawn prayers and after some refreshment proceed to madrassa. along with holy Qur'an and Prohetic hadeeth (prophet's sayings) we were trained in leading purposeful life in line with islamic teaching.





this education helped me in keeping away from GAMBLING, ALCOHOLISM, ACCEPTING INTEREST FROM BANKS, PROSTITUTION AND WOMANIZING and other social and moral evils. But lately some politicians and media are accusing madrassas as breeding ground for terrorists which is nothing but TOTAL and DELIBERATE LIES. This is nothing but a deceiving ploy by Islam bashers and haters who cannot digest that a muslim can keep away from evils and lead a refined and clean life.

My Madrassa (Islamic Seminary) education helped me develop a very high moral values and fine character. for u?
I don't doubt what you are saying in the least.





Love and blessings Don
Reply:Sir,


Sounds good, but I have to wonder about your question. The last words of it, "for u", could be taken as a Freudian slip revealing your desire to impose your beliefs on the rest of us!





I, by the way, do share many (but not all) of your moral standards. Despite the impression the media presents I believe too that not all madrassas are breeding grounds for terrorists but promote consideable (but not all) civilized behaviors. I also share the popular Islamist view that it is criminal of western governments to support oppressive dictatorships in Islamic countries in order to try to ensure cheap and ample oil supplies. I even believe that the criminality of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in their unjustified and pre-emptive war in Iraq is no less than that of the Islamic criminal-terrorists who also blow up innocents.





Now, in the (frustratingly) small ways at my disposal I try to influence my fellow citizens to bring Bush-Cheney to justice. Its a matter of trying to remove the beam from my eye before trying to remove the mote from my brothers - or maybe it might better be expressed as cleaning up my own back yard before complaining about my neighbors. Can you do that with the Islamist terrorists?





Salaam
Reply:You may be right when you said that you were able to excercise control within yourself because of your islamic upbringing, The soul within you is picking up everything from the external world that reflects your soft soul, we all hear and see what we want to hear and see, if every islamic person were like you, soft, wonderful, proper living ethics, mindful of your choices then why would someone bash or hate islam??? This is something that perhaps need focus on your part. The basing is not when something is good? The world supported the monks because no one took alms, they just walked, the world remembers Gandhi because he strongly believed that all world conflicts can be resolved thorugh non violence. Their acts are reveared by all. No one talks against his teaching or role modeling. people know of British rule as bad.


Its the same situation here, the same muslims who believe the same text are justifying their acts of violence as sanctioned by god who also sanctioned everything that you follow, What is your answer to this. They quote from the same text the right to kill the infidels, destruction of all religions, why is there a sectionist attitude prescribed is Allah Sectionist??? Isnt this contradictory to you??? All these good and bad behaviors originate from the same text! What can you do about this state of affairs??? why is it that you truned out to be so good and why is it that others are so angry and want destruction??? Is the text feeding everyones mental makeup? Is it why people do what they do because it has allah's sanctions???





You perhaps can spend time thinking and developing your reasons on this??/ Don't you think something is seriously worng some where??/Figure it out for yourself, why is it that media is able to read things which you are not reading that is there in the text??? Are you in denial????
Reply:ok
Reply:That is very hurtful. I'm sorry.
Reply:Okay, then. You and your culture go your way and I'll go mine. I love to drink and chase women! I just don't want you and your buds telling me I can't. And that little thing about blowing up women and children....how come more moral Muslims such as yourself aren't out in the streets protesting against the wackos that are giving your people such a bad name?
Reply:i agree that there is a lot of ISLAM bashing, generating distrust, and i don't doubt that you are a good person, but, don't you give yourself enough credit to think that you would be a good person without your education?

Ladies would you like it?

Ladies,





Would you like it if all the Asian men just left the country? We Asian men try hard to make it in America, yet no matter how much we try we are always considered foreign. Is social status really that important to you? Thanks to media which is geared towards mostly white consumerism, we are considered the lowest status in the dating scene.





This is not about me being rejected by American women, I'm just tired of being treated as a foreigner in my love life, work life and out in public. I'm thinking of leaving this country. Your insight is appreciated. Thank you.

Ladies would you like it?
well, the one place in america where asians are dominant is.. HAWAII. its nice here and people are friendly and you wont be looked down on because you are asian. peace
Reply:maybe if you drived better....
Reply:If any of my friends had seen this question first, they would have IMMEDIATELY called me and said "One of your boys is asking a question and you HAVE to answer it.."





I'm not Asian, and I think Asian guys are very attractive. I judge people on a lot of characteristics, but my knee-jerk reaction to a lot of Asian guys is that they tend to be a lot smarter than average. They tend to be a little more ambitious too. At least, that's my perception. (And good looking. DO let's not forget that many of them are good looking.)





There's exceptions of course, and I don't think ALL Asian guys are smart or attractive. But a lot of them are, to me at least. So if you're feeling rejected by American women, you may need to broaden your circle a little :)
Reply:Once foreign- always foreign. I've been treated the same way because of my foreign accent. If you can't accept the fact you are different you should stick with your people, or leave the country and go back home. Otherwise you will always be unhappy. Good luck.
Reply:asians guys are good!
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Reply:If you're thinking about leaving the country because you're Asian maybe you should consider that girls might not like you for other reasons too (no offense). Most people are not racist but you need to just ignore the people who are. America is a great country and if you leave it you may have trouble trying to get back in. Don't go without seriously thinking about it.
Reply:truthfully i'm seriously attracted to Asian guys! not gonna lie y'all are definitely cuties! don't leave the country because of this! the perfect girl is right around the corner i swear! this country isn't much for the whole acceptance thing..... like me and purple in my hair.... but still don't let thick headed pigs push you away! this country has so much to offer and amazing diversity is just one of those things!
Reply:no. i love asain guys
Reply:Who cares what America rates people as


if you love an American you do, if you love a asian, you do.


Being a different race shouldn't matter..Who cares what America says :p
Reply:What kind of question this that? NO. I don't want you guys to leave, I have a few Asian friends that I love love love! Social status doesn't mean anything if you're happy together. lol, I highly doubt you're considered the lowest in the dating scene, I personally think Asian men are very attractive. I think it sucks you guys are treated as foreigners, but you know that happens everywhere. If I moved to an Asian country, I'd always be considered a foreigner. So, don't feel bad, and hey chin up, I'm sure you have a lot to offer someone, so don't give up :)


Best wishes.


Jenxx.
Reply:noooooo asian guys don't leave.. i love asian guys :)
Reply:noo,come to germany,that´s better than america, lol ^_~
Reply:Stop being dramatic. You need to surround yourself with more open minded women. Why would you want to be with a woman who doesn't accept you? Maybe try online dating and chat rooms geared towards the liking of Asian men. Don't bet a quitter, everything will work out :)
Reply:I don't want you guys to leave, I am friends with many Asians in school.
Reply:Honestly, i kinda prefer Asian men than western. I usually get attracted to them especially asians with Chinky eyes and good sense of humor.





You shouldn't think of things that way.
Reply:Um, I don't know anyone like that so I can't say why you think you're the lowest status in the dating scene. Maybe you alienate youself by expecting people to treat you differently? Maybe you should move to a different area of the U.S.A.? I don't have a problem with Asians, nor would I have a problem with dating one if I were single and met someone who shared the same goals/beliefes etc...

Does patriotism mean that we should follow along with the mass opinion of our country...?

...if that mass opinion means that we’re made to look like warmongering fools by the rest of the world? Or is America’s Political Ideology truly that black and white. In other words can a person be behind the country but not necessarily for the government's views, especially when the government is demonstrating blatant stupidity all around. I’m not asking this in regards to any one subject, you can easily fill in your own blanks. War, Immigration, Medicare, Social Security, Educational Funding, Civil Rights, Homeland Security, The Media, Corperate Corruption, etc… Do I have to follow along with the popular political opinion in order to be a patriot or does having a difference of opinion brand me as a terrorist. And how is this different from McCarthyism?

Does patriotism mean that we should follow along with the mass opinion of our country...?
I think being a patriot means standing up for what you believe is "right" for the majority of people. Like the Minutemen are doing. A lot of people disagree with them, but they feel what they are doing is what needs to be done to help secure our country. (Personally, I agree with them). But others feel they are not needed/wanted, etc.





You never have to follow popular opinion. Just get ALL the facts before you make any decisions. Don't just listen to the news. There is always more to the stories that what they tell you. Make up your own mind. God bless! And, OH!, don't forget to vote EVERY chance you get.
Reply:Thanks!
Reply:No it doesn't. It just continues to be the accepted way of doing business.Make a stand for free thought not tunnel vision. Peace.
Reply:That's why this country is so great, everyone can have their own opinions.
Reply:patriots stand up for what is right not what the government tells us is right. this corrupt system is about to come crashing down and we will need all the patriots we can muster to rebuild this great nation.
Reply:patriotism is doing what is the best for your country, even if it goes against the public opinion.
Reply:Have your own opinion, but keep an open mind.


Grey is a very good color, and few things are ever as black and white as one might wish.


I believe that being patriotic is holding love and respect for the spirit of your country. If you disagree with an action/decision made by a representative of your country, you should respect their office even if you do not respect that person, and civily make your arguements known.
Reply:Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Check this site out, you will find a lot of answers for your questions. WWW.currentissues.tv

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My Madrassa (Islamic Seminary) education helped me develop a very high moral values and fine character. for u?

my early years in madrassa, a tiny religious school adjacent to our mosque helped me become a human being of a fine character and inculcate a high moral values. with the break of dawn we proceed to mosque for our dawn prayers and after some refreshment proceed to madrassa. along with holy Qur'an and Prohetic hadeeth (prophet's sayings) we were trained in leading purposeful life in line with islamic teaching.





This education helped me in keeping away from GAMBLING, ALCOHOLISM, ACCEPTING INTEREST FROM BANKS, PROSTITUTION AND WOMANIZING and other social and moral evils. But lately some politicians and media are accusing madrassas as breeding ground for terrorists which is nothing but TOTAL and DELIBERATE LIES. This is nothing but a deceiving ploy by Islam bashers and haters who cannot digest that a muslim can keep away from evils and lead a refined and clean life.

My Madrassa (Islamic Seminary) education helped me develop a very high moral values and fine character. for u?
WHATS U QUESTION?


WHERE DID SADDAM LEARN TO SLAUGHTER MUSLIMS?


WHERE DID ALL THE DICTATORS RULING MOST OF MUSLIM COUNTRIES LEARN TO TORTURE THEIR FELLOW HUMANS?
Reply:Fine, no doubt ., in line with Islamic teaching .?


Elaborate the basic tenets of Islam.other than those that are listed which are quite common in all religions without exception.


People know that a Muslim cannot keep away from the teachings of Islam under any circumstances and will do away with all Islam bashers as commanded by Muhammad the supreme commander of Allah!
Reply:Muslim learning can help keep you away from evils and lead a clean life.





Muslim learning can also promote terrorism, and hate.





It all depends on the Imam.





Without a central leader to guide Islam, it is destined to have many more wide variations of teachings, leaving individual Imams as the sole authority to teach.





I hope the moderates prevail.





Good Luck and God bless you.
Reply:YOU ARE GIVING US YOUR TAKE ON MADRASSA'S BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE IN ONE (YOUR WORDS) TINY RELIGIOUS SCHOOL. DO YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT ALL THE RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS ARE OF THE SAME QUALITY AS YOURS. PERHAPS THERE IS NO ONE IN YOUR SCHOOL THAT TERRORISTS ARE INTERESTED IN BUT WOULD YOU STRAP A LOAD OF PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE TO YOURSELF AND DETONATE IT IN A CROWD OF JEWS IF YOUR TEACHER TOLD YOU IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO DO? ANSWER PLEASE. YES OR NO?
Reply:Well, what ever you learn whether it is madrases, yoga centre or church every thing will depend upon the intention... remember if you learn for to help the whole humanity one or other day it i will surely come out............. but for the worldly cost it will like the water in pot putting hole every thing in vain....though i have seen many guys studying well reputed institute, but still manerless and show off, god created every thing for the making not specific for Muslim or non Muslim, we humans did not understand god and we blame on each other................learn and teach as well teach and learn.....don't worry about any one..... if you are truthful and right you will receive always Divine help.......
Reply:Dear friend you are the pleasant exception. And virtues have more to it than what you have listed. Better you come out of illusion and stop protecting Madrassas.
Reply:so when do you practice bomb making and shooting??
Reply:Awesome!
Reply:Are u suggesting that other faiths do not have the same values?


If yes , your Madrassa has already brainwashed u.


Again why do u declare that all the Madrasses i n the world do not preach negative things. This kind of lie only harden the views about any thing Muslims say.


If yr M taught u to be every thing that u are then full marks and hearty congratulations to u and yr M.But then do not spoil it all by absurd declarations!


I notice u left out the most evil quality being honesty! That makes every thing else suspect.


If y see no diff in a case like Hiroshima and the likes of sadaam, yr madrassa has indeed brain washed u and should be considered a terror cell.
Reply:I am glad you are being helped morally. I am sure that all Islamic religious school do not breed terrorists. But all it takes is a few bad ones, to hurt the reputation of the majority that are good. Extremists are hard to weed out. We have our own extremists in our country. We live in a world with so many problems left unaddressed, that it is a fertile ground to develop terrorists. Hopefully moral people like yourself, will be able to help address some of these issues in a constructive manner, so that the future of this world will be brighter.

Can someone break down this question into simple terms? Mind too simple.?

"Explain how social concepts of desire and belonging are used in media and visual production to construct the consumer."





Yes. I need someone to dumb this question down for me.


To be more specific, I don't understand what "construct the consumer" means. How do we make a consumer? What does this question want from me?





Thanks in advance.

Can someone break down this question into simple terms? Mind too simple.?
What is in commercials that shows how people can be popular and have their desires fulfilled by using a product?





Write about how beautiful ladies are in beer commercials, slim guys who have lost 300 lbs are eating at subway, etc. People see the commercials and want to buy the products in order to feel more socially acceptable.
Reply:How the Consumer's Mind set is changed by them is the question
Reply:when you construct a consumer to me means-you make the consumer want to be or to have what your selling.


like the models they use to advertise lip stick they use girls with thick full pretty lips.


If you notice that your are on the inside looking out


you rarely see yourself but what you see around you is what you want to become.


media and visual aids are highly used to deliver that concept.
Reply:why do advitisers put so many prodctson tv radio etc and what are the benefits and outcomes
Reply:it means for advertising they use gathered information about groups in society what appeals to them and then they use that in their commercials to appeal to the consumer and to construct a consumer means to make one, meaning there is a person out there that is not a consumer by making a commercial that appeals to their wants and desires it will make them a consumer
Reply:a person is not a consumer until he or she buys something or takes part in consuming





a social concept of desire may be the same as keeping up with the jone's or the neighbor next door i.e. if everyone had an ipod your child would make you buy him one too and with media and visual it is like getting a stupid kid or parents to buy a stupid kid a slinky toy that does nothing much at all but the catchy song and visual affects make it desireable
Reply:How does the media use coverage to exploit social concepts of desire (like what is hot to buy, what is in, like a commercial). And also of belonging such as you see old navy commercial you want to be like them so you go to the old navy store and buy what you saw on tv. or the campaign commercial about to stop smoking it is the TRUTH they advertise it as. So the TRUTH is trying to influence people to not smoke and they are trying to get you to get with thier group, a non smoking group.
Reply:I think it would mean influencing the customer. For instance, if certain advertisements successfully influence us to the extent that we decide we want to start buying those products, we have, in effect, been made a customer for that particular product.


Does that make sense? :)
Reply:"Explain how common notions of needs and wants are used in media and advertising to influence the consumer."





"Construct the consumer" probably means: to "make" the consumer do something different, or to change their mind.





The question wants you to explain how certain human desires (needs and wants) are used (or exploited) by the media and advertising to change a persons perception of a product/service, or to make a person buy a product/service.
Reply:explain how society understands the idea of desire and belonging and how those understandings are used in the media and in visual production in order to define the idea of what a consumer is...?





that's kinda what I'm getting out of it.. I'd suggest asking the person who gave you this promt to clairify, but if oyu can't I hope I dumbed it down right..





is this for an advertising final or something sheesh! : )

MAY anyone HAVE A LOOK AT MY ESSAY AND TELL ME WHERE ARE MY MISTAKES(HONESTLY)?

How an AUBG education will broaden your global perspective and cultivate your capacity for social responsibility?


/essay/











There is always the moment in your life where you are in front of the dilemma should you continue fighting for your dreams and ideas or should you leave them and enjoy life the way it is. You realize if you keep going, if you don't give up you may help a lot of people, even change the world. You remind yourself that you have been through all these wearsome wars, not only with the others, but with yourself. You understand that sometimes you were against your desires, against yourself. You are confused, you are not sure if you are going to succeed. When i am in font of such challenge(trial) i tell myself: "I don't think it would be easy, but i am sure it would be worth it!"


Desiding to continue education is a big step in everybody's life. It is an enormous change - you know you have to be careful because chosing a university is like chosing your future home for the next four years. As far as i know, everyone wants to have cozy home with trustworthy family, that can induldge to provide the necessary opportunities. I considered a lot of universities and i dare to say AUBG is the most appropriate and the best "home". I have observed AUBG in the last few years and now I'm sure it provides everything what young people need to prove theirselves. When i came on the open-house week before three years, i was impressed by the traditions AUBG has managed to save through all this time. Since then, I am sure every other college or university should reflects the opportunities AUBG gives. I have always dreamed to study in the AUBG. I am sure that it's experienced teachers and modern material base would help me develop my skills in the mass comunications field. Of course, you can't chose university only because it has the nessecary material base or good hostel - chosing the best university is connected with hard work and realized efforts. Nowdays, the televison is the best informing media, has became a manipulator all over the world. I really want to study journalism, because i want to reflect? people's voice, to show we should be tolerant to each other. There are things we should change for sure - we need to rebuild those parts of society which slacken our pace. I have been working in our local television as a newscaster. This job helped me realize i am a part of the society and i should take an active role(part?) in social life. I have interviewed many people from different parts of our municipality and i understood that there are still a lot of political, economic and social problems because of the wrong information shown by the media. I think there are still people who are afraid to show their critical attitude to the economic affairs and the ups and downs of the international market. I really want to be part of the worldly class of people who work hard to provide everyday knowledge and facts. I also undrestood that i can't build career only on knowledge - career means knowledge acompained by aggregate of clear aims and actions which will lead to my profecional realzation. A successful career for me doesn't mean just an idea for the "perfect life" - it is a process, connected with the accumulation of your intelectual baggage. Finding the best university that saticfies our criterias lay the stronghold of our future career and life. I chose to study journalism in AUBG because i know that this is the profession which would never leave me indifferent to the society that surrounds me and because as every young person I hope and expect, that my future education in AUBG will help me develop parallel to the responsibilities i undertake.

MAY anyone HAVE A LOOK AT MY ESSAY AND TELL ME WHERE ARE MY MISTAKES(HONESTLY)?
there are a lot of spelling mistakes which u can correct by running it thru spell check.but if u expect people in this forum to rephrase or change words it will b difficult.try giving it to friends or family who are good in creative writing to do that.
Reply:Go here to find my suggestions for corrections:





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1...





Good luck in your future endeavors. You look like a go-getter. I'm sure you will be quite successful!








PS Don't forget to vote for a best answer!
Reply:I think if you provide us with an abstraction it would be better.I think they don't read the whole essay if YOU DON'T


PROVIDE THEM AN ABSTRACT.

Is america in threat of -sliding- into fascism?

My boyfriend has to write a traditional college research/thesis paper. and he has said he wants his thesis to be something like Is america in the threat of sliding into fascism, OR





the thesis point my other friend came up with: American corporations influence produces fascism through modifying society's perception with marketing and media control.





How does it affect government and social policy?





some key points considering to research: Emphasizing exactly how corporations are stimulating society towards fascism,





* conservatives advocate more corporate power through business..





* what keeps the poor poor, and the rich rich. What allows martha stewart for example for embezzling to get a slap on the wrist, no jail time. but mugging might get you like 2 years hardcore prison time..





What I want to know is: What thesis could relate fascism and america, what examples can be provided/ researched. and just anything ideas in general on the topic fascism.

Is america in threat of -sliding- into fascism?
Well you could go ahead and state that the only way people give up any freedoms is due to fear. You then go into the fact that since our foundation, political parties have been using propaganda to incite fear of the opposing political party. This then translates into votes and therefore control over the government....where individual rights are widdled down to create the ideal society that the political party believes is correct. Democrats and Republicans both have done this....just in different avenues of focus.
Reply:Facism, such as the distrust and de-valuation of Arab life, and a war on Iraq, which had NOTHING to do with 9/11? I know some Americans who weaer Maple Leaf badges, and pretend to be Canadian when they travel, as the US is so badly-received throughout much of the world.
Reply:don't be silly of course not america is totally into rugged individualism and laisai faire
Reply:Sorry, we're already there. Happened on Nov 22, 1963. If you seriously research it, you'll find its true.
Reply:wont happen...we have too many checks and balances...what this is is a college level assignment given by a liberal(ultra lib it sounds like) professor in an attempt to make the student believe America is dirt or bad....no...we arent going Facist unless,of course,some liberal leaning hack like Obama or Klinton get into office this year...and that wont happen either
Reply:Martha Stewart was not convicted of embezzling, sh was accused then cleared of insider trading but cleared. She went to prison for lying about a crime that was never committed.





Instead of using the Stewart case as an example of how the corporate machine keeps the little man down, use it as an example of how corrupt officials can use their power to destroy anyone. If someone as Rich and powerful as Martha Stewart cannot defend herself, then what could be or fate.





You should focus on how people use class warfare as a tactic to gain power.

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