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<p>Well, her generalization is probably a little more accurate. Almost half of the Texas Board of Education were creationists!</p>
<p>And also, there are plenty of hicks and industrialists in CA too, so you could come over and feel at home, although you would have to start paying an income tax.</p>
<p>@Zelda Fitzgerald Okay so it was an exaggeration, but people were seriously saying that tornadoes were reason enough not to live in the Midwest. Regardless, tornadoes kill an average of 80 people a year. LA had a great year for safetyâŠwith just under 300 homicides. I get it, itâs a huge city, and I donât even live in the Midwest, but Iâm just putting other peopleâs arguments into perspective.</p>
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<p>There is a difference between being a creationist (which, essentially just means that you follow one of the worldâs major religions-Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc) and believing that people rode around on dinosaurs a few thousand years ago.</p>
<p>Oh boy, Iâve debated a few creationists in my time, and for the record, they are completely bonkers.</p>
<p>They are religious pseudo-scientific crazy people from my POV.</p>
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<p>The guys on the board almost voted to âteach the controversyâ in Texas schools. These guys werenât just religious. They were unhappy with the implications of the theory of evolution and our scientific knowledge about natural history and sought to discredit the science by political means. </p>
<p>One of the implications of the science is that the earth is not a couple thousand years old. This definitely bothered Don McLeroy of the board, who has publically admitted that he thinks the earth is that old. He probably thinks that man hung out with dinosaurs thousands of years ago or that there is no such thing as a dinosaurâthe dinosaur bones were put into the soil by God.</p>
<p>Iâm doing pretty fine with the new rate hikes. Actually, I have a yearly NET income of about $75k for attending school here at California, after tuition and fees are paid. </p>
<p>You said campus spirit is lacking here, but you relate that to sports only. The spirit here is high particularly to prestige and academics. Your friends anecdotal information is not facts, so donât state it as such. And, if they are friends with you, that pretty much explains a lot of things about their social lives. </p>
<p>Itâs California, and close proximity to LA and SF has a large party/social scene, which you can do year round, unlike cold states where you get 2 good months a year. Thereâs more to do than large college cities/towns where all they do is drink inside on the weekends and doing beer bongs and keg stands at frat houses bro!!! </p>
<p>This thread has gotten sour because of all the bias and homers towards their own schools. Obviously, you have to validate your school and your choice somehow, but padding oneâs own school so hard that you can try to brain wash others into thinking it as well is distasteful. Sad really.</p>
<p>I donât give a flying ***** what school people choose â you choose what you like, what you can afford, what you got into or a combination of the three. Someone who goes to Middle of Nowhere U would definitely think their school is better than Urban D1 College if thatâs the only college environment/living environment theyâve experienced. </p>
<p>âCompleteâ is relative to oneâs taste. A lot of people have made sound, thorough decisions as to which schools they believe meet the OPâs criteria â but a lot of you here have stooped to making broad generalizations, personally attacking other posters, throwing in schools that arenât notable by any means because itâs your alma materâŠ</p>
<p>âŠand then, there was this racist, bigoted nugget that Iâm happily reporting to the mods:</p>
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<p>Iâm sorry, person who wrote this, that you are small-minded and live in a whitewashed, secluded bubble where the mere thought of coexisting with Hispanics and âwomen who donât shave their legsâ is frightening. </p>
<p>Homogeneity is frightening, living under a religious nation-state is frightening, resorting to racial stereotypes is frightening â diversity, on the other hand, is what is supposed to make college/America/democracy/whatever an eye-opening and beneficial experience. I am sorry that your environment has brought you up to think otherwise. </p>
<p>A diverse environment isnât one where the ruling parties try to impart religiously-motivated rules and regulations upon the constituents. Try as you may to dispute it, places where this is happening (ie: Minnesota, to bring up a recent example) are really âbackwardsâ because theyâre actively working agaisnt the rules written in our countryâs constitution.</p>
<p>Weather facts are one thing; California is mild, Michigan gets cold â we canât dispute this, as much as some people here have tried. However, bashing a region because of its ethnic makeup is just plain low. âOoooh! Mexicans! How scary!â I bet youâre one of the people who hates the fact that Obama is in the White House because heâs African American, too.</p>
<p>Also, just because I think youâre a pathetic moron â I suggest you read the news. Race riots? Hah! I donât think youâve tried to figure out whatâs happening in California since 1992. Last time I checked, wildfires affect other states, too â and Iâve never heard of a California wildfire escaping the forest region and burning down downtown Los Angeles. </p>
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A lifelong California resident (who shaves her legs)</p>
<p>Zelda, Iâm pretty sure that the person that wrote that was being satirical.</p>
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<p>Youâre right-Iâve only lived in three countries, including one in the Middle East, and several different states. I obviously have never been out of my comfort zone. You know me all too well.</p>
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<p>And yet you happily stereotype and insult those whom you disagree with. Pot, meet kettle.</p>
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<p>Iâm just glad that I live in a state where kids are still allowed to display the American flag at their schools. In California, kids can and have been disciplined for having the audacity to display our nationâs colors.</p>
<p>Youâre right though-Iâm no Obama fan, but it has nothing to do with his race. Thatâs just your stereotyping again. </p>
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<p>I take it you donât read too much:</p>
<p>[Oakland</a> riots after verdict in police shooting of Oscar Grant | World news | The Guardian](<a href=âhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/09/oakland-riots-oscar-grant-shooting-verdict]Oaklandâ>Oakland riots after verdict in police shooting of Oscar Grant | US news | The Guardian)</p>
<p>I guess you missed the fire in 2007 that burned down 2,000 homes in San Diego and killed 15 people as well-</p>
<p>[October</a> 2007 California wildfires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=âOctober 2007 California wildfires - Wikipediaâ>October 2007 California wildfires - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Seriously, you make it too easy. Please, at least try next time. K thanks.</p>
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<p>This is an important part of Cuseâs quote that you missed. I donât think that Cuse literally believes what he said there, although his usage of âsuburb of Mexicoâ as a derogatory remark is a little telling.</p>
<p>Yup, my comment was meant to be taken as tongue-in-cheek. Merely responding to one set of bigoted generalizations with another.</p>
<p>Well the American flag is the universal symbol for terrorism! And thank God, whomever that may be, we donât pollute our schoolchildren with such garbage. Good thing we donât have to live in a state that is still living in 1850âs, such as nor Cackalacky</p>
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<p>Canât tell if you are joking or not. Pretty funny though, if you are. :D</p>