<p>PEALS-05: ditto</p>
<p>The problem is that there are many black males who do not help the situation. They--themselves--perpetuate the stereotype that nick da man 08 and I find sickening.</p>
<p>It's unfortunate that we are often incorrectly grouped into those categories.</p>
<p>Yah. Those bad stereotypes roll everywhere. Like that stereotype about black girls and how they have so much 'attitude'. Letoya. Shenaynay, Monique (stereotyped as a fat black girl), etc.</p>
<p>Oh man, there's this white boy at my school who I don't know. He must have a thing for black girls but he always calling me Shenaynay. That's an American name. Black people are American. Rap, jazz, whatever its all American. And I'm not American. :P</p>
<p>quitejaded, where are you from originally?</p>
<p>"And in America, a lot of boys will date you just for sex. What is wrong about rapping about what you like?"</p>
<p>You obviously don't know a whole lot about women. On a moral basis, many people would be offended by rapping about graphic sex acts/physical attributes. So that's "wrong." </p>
<p>Secondly, I actually do NOT KNOW ANY GIRL who openly enjoys being called names and being seen as good for only shaking her booty. That's disrespectful and crude towards women--- i.e., "wrong."</p>
<p>And, lastly, just because it's a common trend in our culture (boys just wanting sex) doesn't make it JUSTIFIED or morally acceptable. Are you saying that because it's a common behavior/mentality, it's justified? Using that kind of oh-so-brilliant logic, it seems justifiable blacks be enslaved and horribly mistreated because it was a common trend in American culture.</p>
<p>All my family is Nigerian and I was born in Australia.</p>
<p>You called me a name because I personally don't see anything wrong with the freedom to express yourself? Well, then I am what you called me and a happy liberal one.</p>
<p>I don't like to be called names, but those people aren't talking TO ME. And there are beautiful songs about sex. Just because raps are not melodious doesn't make it bad. Its still sex. No matter what words you use. If you don't like it, that's okay. You don't have to.</p>
<p>Also, your moral beliefs are not EVERYONE's moral beliefs. Some people have no problem with being a slut. That's how they live their life and they aren't hurting anyone. Why is it wrong?</p>
<p>You're playing the right-winged card, my friend.</p>
<p>C'mon let's keep the discussion civil. I was enjoying this conversation until now.</p>
<p>Anyway, quitejaded, my parents are originally from Nigeria as well.</p>
<p>Wow! What tribe are they from? We're Igbo.</p>
<p>Yoruba Tribe hehe</p>
<p>I gotta say it. I think practically everyone on earth enjoys or would enjoy eating fried chicken. You could go into the depths of the Amazon rainforest and find a native tribe, give them some fried chicken, and I think many would like its greasy, crunchy, juicy texture. You could go into inner Mongolia, central Germany or the middle of the Middle East, and I am sure you will find people who would enjoy eating fried chicken immensely.</p>
<p>It is wrong to say all blacks love fried chicken because 1) that's an enormous stereotype and generality 2) many, many white, Asian, Hispanic, Arab, Indian etc people love/would love eating fried chicken, too.</p>
<p>At least the fried chicken stereotype deals with a common, beloved, iconic American food that generally everyone eats. Asians like me, however, suffer from crude and often false stereotypes about what we eat.</p>
<p>Yeah I swear people think Asians only eat rice. In addition, they deal with the "math and science" stereotype.</p>
<p>O_O NOT ONLY RICE! XD Rice and NOODLES! Don't get forget the noodles! ;-; Not only math and science....Philsophy! =] Chinese Philsophy! ^^</p>
<p>Don't worry. My family only eats rice :)</p>
<p>"I don't like to be called a *****, but those people aren't talking TO ME"</p>
<p>Right. So... they call OTHER women "*****es" and "ho"s, so that makes it okay. Just as long as YOU aren't the one being directly disrespected, foul language and disrespect toward OTHER women is justified. I suppose you are not a feminist. </p>
<p>That's funny. You called yourself a liberal, after all. I just guess the respect of women is not on your personal agenda, then.</p>
<p>"And there are beautiful songs about sex. Just because raps are not melodious doesn't make it bad. Its still sex."</p>
<p>Melody has nothing to do with it. I don't care what raps sound like. It is the emotional part of sex that is important. The problem that many have with rap is that it treats sex with no emotional ties. Women are there to physically service a man, and that's it. The man seems to not care less what the woman feels emotionally. They're treated like any other object used to satisfy a specific purpose, and then metaphorically just thrown away once they've been satisfactorially "used." Great.</p>
<p>"Its still sex. No matter what words you use"</p>
<p>Move beyond the physical. Physically, it's sex. But sex usually has emotional ties. The words you use ARE important, when discussing the emotional feelings the couple has towards each other. Sex is sex physically. But isn't it sad to think that that's all it is? </p>
<p>"Also, your moral beliefs are not EVERYONE's moral beliefs"</p>
<p>No. When did I say they were? Did I say "ALL people believe that it is crude to call women cruel names"? No. Are you reading into something that I didn't write?</p>
<p>"Some people have no problem with being a slut. That's how they live their life and they aren't hurting anyone. Why is it wrong?"</p>
<p>They aren't hurting anyone? Physcially: what about STDs? AIDS? Is it okay to be slut, even if you have gnorrhea? Or AIDS? A person might enjoy being with sluts because they'll get satisfied physically. But what if the "slut" gives them a disease? Or what if someone unwillingly becomes pregnant? Is it still justified? Is it still "not wrong"?</p>
<p>Are you insinuating that no harm will come to anyone, even if they have loose sexual habits? That's ridiculous. I thought everyone took a sex ed class, like, in the fifth grade. Or do they skip those where you live?</p>
<p>Emotionally: many will hurt themselves. Having sex with anyone for the sake of having sex (i.e., being a slut) displays the respect one has for himself or herself (i.e., not much).</p>
<p>"You're playing the right-winged card, my friend."</p>
<p>No, I don't think so. Most of my friends are fierce Democrats/liberals-- pro-abortion, anti-death-penalty, anti-war, anti-Bush etc-- but they also recognize the danger and crudeness and wrongness of disrespecting women and condoning "slut" behavior.</p>
<p>You obviously don't.</p>
<p>"Don't worry. My family only eats rice"</p>
<p>Everyone eats rice. :) Rice is in sushi and in gumbo and in European dishes and in Indian dishes and in Nigerian dishes etc.</p>
<p>It's universally good, like fried chicken. :P</p>
<p>PS: quitejaded, I'm sorry I called you names. I still disagree with you very much, but I regret going after you like that and getting too insulting. I'm sorry. :)</p>
<p>I knew a girl who thought that Asian hair was so perfect and straight like that cuz of all the rice they ate :P</p>
<p>Speaking of Asian girl obsessions there is a girl at my school who draws asian faces for fun in class. "Such beautiful faces" she says.</p>
<p>It's bad to mix the good genes with the bad genes, that's why.</p>
<p>Dang.. do ANY of you date just because you love someone and think you would marry them some day? You seem way too conserned with the appearance or the background of the other. A relationship isn't about yourself. It's about the two of you, and not just about what YOU want. Some of the things you all have brought up shouldn't even come into consideration.</p>
<p>Let me give my opinion on this matter....</p>
<p>Someone mentioned earlier that rappers like 50 Cent and others seem to perpetuate and induce the negative stereotypes of the race on an aggregate level. Fist, music, like any art form, is a form of conveyance on a perceived reality...for the most part. 50 Cent is only giving society his own myopic critique on civilization. Apparently, America is buying it as well and so are a prodigious amount of supposedly "pure" white people. Blacks are not the majority in hip hop music consumption. This type of skewed actualization sells. People, as a whole, like this music. Ironically, the music with the least relavence is invited by most consumers. So, in a sense, we are all a victim of permeating said stereotypes....only we think we are doing so innocuously. </p>
<p>Second, as a black person, it is unsettling to read people type that "black men are nice" or "black men are rude." Folks, this type of finality (positive or negative) is unacceptable. There are outliers in every race and this kind of multifarious distinction is what makes all races eqaully altruistic and becoming.</p>
<p>yeah, Asians do have really really nice hair... I think I may have had an extreme infatuation with a friend due to the way his ohsoperfect hair swooshed as he walked down the hallways. Then he shaved it off :/</p>
<p>Last year, 3 guys from Africa moved to the US and started going to my school. One was from Mali, one from Senegal, and one from Cameroon. When each of them first got here, they were all kinda alike, they stood out because they couldn't speak English very well, their clothes were kinda different, etc. However, the guys from Mali and Senegal became friends with people that were academically inclined and were "proper," I guess you could say, and they soon became like their new friends. They were very sweet, hardworking guys. The guy from Cameroon, on the other hand, happened to become really popular with the "gangsta" crowd in our Health class because... well, I suppose it was because he was African. When he first came to the US, I talked to him, and you know, he was very shy, but he seemed like a really nice caring guy. But after hanging out with his new friends, he started mimicking their style and gangsta ways, and he turned into a really mean "pimp." I thought it was interesting.</p>
<p>I'd date a person regardless of race, but I don't know about religion. I guess as long as he didn't require me to conform to whatever he followed, I'd be cool with it.</p>