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Jan. 29th, 2007 06:37 amSo I didn't update last night on my spending for yesterday, because, hehe, there wasn't any. Saturday doesn't count, but I was thinking it did, and I went grocery shopping, the bill was $46.53 and it is enough dry/frozen groceries for two weeks, and I go back once a week to pick up veg/fruit (although this time of year I don't buy a lot of fresh veg/fruit, but I did get some frozen berries).
So, I have some questions to ask everybody that might be something that could ruffle a lot of feathers, but I want to know your answers, and I want to know your answers HONESTLY, so go ahead and answer annonymously.
I do not see myself as a prejudice person, and I do not see myself as someone who harbours subconscious prejudices, but I was fortunate enough to grow up in a household with parents of different ethnicities, in a state that has a lot of white/black/Puerto Rican/Asian citizens. It wasn't strange for us to do part of our grocery shopping at Stop & Shop and then head over to the Filipino market in East Hartford as well.
I moved to California when I was 13, and while I've witnessed some racial prejudice there, just as one would also sometimes see in Connecticut, it wasn't overly abundant there either. In Connecticut I was too young to see/notice sexual identity prejudices, but I got an eyeful and earful of it in California, after coming out about myself not being entirely straight. Prejudice to the point of having to change high schools, and prejudice enough to sometimes hiding my sexuality. It's not a fun thing, but you know, for the most part I haven't gotten it too badly.
Now, Idaho is a little different. There isn't a lot of over the top prejudice, although you can sometimes see it. There are a lot of racial ignorances, and gender identity and sexual preferance ignorances, but it's more often curiosity that prejudice. People ask a lot of questions. And funnily enough, it's often the same questions over and over, so people all want to know the same things. That's fine.
With the upcoming elections and some of the candidates revealed, I have some worries. People keep mentioning "Obama would be the first black president" or "Hillary would be the first woman president" and all the hype that goes with those things "Is the country really ready??"
I have some major problems with those statements. The first being that if those facts need to be pointed out, and if those questions need to be asked...there is underlying prejudice in those statements. Why do those things need to be pointed out, and why do we have to be "ready" for it. Aren't we all equal? Can't we just look past that and ask ourselves "Who is the best for the job?"
So I want to know from you guys, what are your prejudices? Be it racial, gender, religous, sexuality, I want to know. Go ahead and answer, click annonymous if you want.
So, I have some questions to ask everybody that might be something that could ruffle a lot of feathers, but I want to know your answers, and I want to know your answers HONESTLY, so go ahead and answer annonymously.
I do not see myself as a prejudice person, and I do not see myself as someone who harbours subconscious prejudices, but I was fortunate enough to grow up in a household with parents of different ethnicities, in a state that has a lot of white/black/Puerto Rican/Asian citizens. It wasn't strange for us to do part of our grocery shopping at Stop & Shop and then head over to the Filipino market in East Hartford as well.
I moved to California when I was 13, and while I've witnessed some racial prejudice there, just as one would also sometimes see in Connecticut, it wasn't overly abundant there either. In Connecticut I was too young to see/notice sexual identity prejudices, but I got an eyeful and earful of it in California, after coming out about myself not being entirely straight. Prejudice to the point of having to change high schools, and prejudice enough to sometimes hiding my sexuality. It's not a fun thing, but you know, for the most part I haven't gotten it too badly.
Now, Idaho is a little different. There isn't a lot of over the top prejudice, although you can sometimes see it. There are a lot of racial ignorances, and gender identity and sexual preferance ignorances, but it's more often curiosity that prejudice. People ask a lot of questions. And funnily enough, it's often the same questions over and over, so people all want to know the same things. That's fine.
With the upcoming elections and some of the candidates revealed, I have some worries. People keep mentioning "Obama would be the first black president" or "Hillary would be the first woman president" and all the hype that goes with those things "Is the country really ready??"
I have some major problems with those statements. The first being that if those facts need to be pointed out, and if those questions need to be asked...there is underlying prejudice in those statements. Why do those things need to be pointed out, and why do we have to be "ready" for it. Aren't we all equal? Can't we just look past that and ask ourselves "Who is the best for the job?"
So I want to know from you guys, what are your prejudices? Be it racial, gender, religous, sexuality, I want to know. Go ahead and answer, click annonymous if you want.
