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[primallivingston]

Conversations w/ Kaydee

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[nevergoinoutofstyle]

Maybe she snapped 🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️ @taylorswift

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Facebook’s Secret Weapon

By Barry of NotReal News Silicon Valley buzzes with speculation this week as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces a new social media platform: Rantbox. In an interview with tech reporters Zuckerberg said this: “Well, we were looking at the core demographic of Facebook and how people use this amazing social network. While most people use Facebook to connect we stumbled upon an…

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[warlockglock72]

Oh fantastic. I’m going on facebook again. 

[theinsyder]

Frustrated artiste tears into celebrated host Mzazi Willy M. Tuva

Frustrated artiste tears into celebrated host Mzazi Willy M. Tuva

Regarded as the ‘parent’ of urban music, Mzazi has been on the front line helping artistes get out there to their audience. He has many projects running. Besides his radio and TV hosting jobs, Mzazi has Mseto campus tour where he takes with him artistes to perform and spoken word artistes around universities and colleges, then he recently began thye mzazi foundation and a new initiative of giving…

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[abbyhathorn]

Five Year Blogiversary!

WoWzA! Can you believe it has been FIVE YEARS? Man…five years. That’s a long time… *stares off into the distance* It’s kind of amazing what can happen in five years…

VIP is turning the big FIVE, and I do not want to let five years of hard work and dedication go to waste. The blog only turns five once, and after over 1,000 posts…I think that is something to dance about *happy dance* SO, let’s…

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[space2think]

The Time I Lost It On Facebook

I can't be expected to hold it together all of the time.

It was a few days before Christmas and I was really feeling every symptom of my illness. I don’t know if it was the stress or the weather, maybe a combination of the two but I was literally a mess. I had tried desperately to get to Target early that morning. I had a few last minute gifts I HAD to get and groceries. My body was cooperating at all and by the time I dragged myself to the store it…

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[aqua-fire-chick]

Person(+30yrs older than me): This post is EXACTLY what is wrong with most of the liberal minded folks around. This post lists the women as Thai-American, Latina, Somali-American, and Indian-American. They are listed as hyphenated Americans. It's time for them and anyone else who wants to live in this country to make a decision. Do you want to be an American or a Thai? Do you want to be a Latina or American? Do you want to be a Somali or American? Do you want to be American or Indian? Make up your mind, you can't be both.

Me:I don't see it that way. Honestly, there is a part of your home culture that is lost if you give it up. Hyphenating is a way of preserving your home culture, values and characteristics. When I traveled around outside of the USA I was confronted with the American stereotype of being rude, abrasive and egotistical. I shocked people in the way in which I acted. I could not and would not ask some person to give up their heritage or ethnicity. If you ask someone what they are, they say Irish, Italian, Polish, British, German, Swedish no one questions it. But if they say Egyptian, Arabic, Samoli, Mexican, Latina/Latino, Japanese, Chinese, Thiaaianese, Korean, Sri Lankan, Nigerian, Indian, Pakistani, Syrian and people freak out. America was supposed to be something of a combination not cut and dry, black or white. Without variation life is tasteless, we need differences to support each other and learn to relate to people differently than ourselves.

Person: The problem I see with hyphenated Americans is that many of them seem to feel that the country other than America is as important or even more important than the the U.S. The U.S. is and always has been a melting pot, the difference is that back when my grandfather came to this country, immigrants took the attitude of "We are now Americans." Many of them, when their children would speak in their native tongue they would be admonished "we are now Americans, speak the language of this country", that seems to be happening less and less. There is no way that ballots should be printed in any language other than English. Government business should be transacted in English, translations could be provided as a courtesy at times. The English only policy would of course be waived for tourist info and instructions to legal immigrants trying to find ways to meld into our society. I'm not saying that as immigrants families should NOT teach their children the parent's native language (I wish I had learned German, my maternal grandfather's native language, as a child), but they should be taught that English is the language spoken in public. I feel very fortunate when I travel to foreign countries that English is so widely spoken, but, I don't expect everything to be translated for me. I am a visitor to that country and it is great when they can accommodate me by knowing my language. But, if I were to take up residence in a foreign land I would be expected to learn the language.

It pains me to see, as I drive down the street, flags from other nations flying on house fronts rather than the American flag. I have seen news stories of students in the U.S. sent home because they had American flags on their shirts, and it would "offend" the Mexican students. That is totally wrong.

Rant over...for a while.

Me: But it is so much more than a language thing. The US does not have an official language, by doing those things as a nation we deliberately exclude others. You should have a choice to display/show off your heritage or not. We accept it with European descendants but not folks from anywhere else.

Person: Language: I have just a big of a problem with the employees at the airport speaking in their eastern European languages as I have with Spanish or Arabic at other work places.

Me: (In my head).... Cues Hamilton Soundtrack... I AM NOT THROWING AWAY MY SHOT!