11-21-2018, 09:44 PM
(11-20-2018, 08:28 PM)pbrower2a Wrote:Well, she looks like a Hispanic woman to me. I didn't know she was half African American and half Asian Indian instead. Did she grow up in a wealthy blue neighborhood or did she grow up in a typical American neighborhood? Was she fed with a silver spoon or a cheap Gerber spoon or a cheap run of the mill baby spoon that was also used by other brothers and sisters too? You seem to know more about her than me and seem to have more interest in finding out her actual ethnicity then me as well. Next time, I'll just refer to her as the brownish chick from California instead.(11-20-2018, 01:30 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(11-20-2018, 09:35 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(11-20-2018, 02:55 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(11-20-2018, 12:15 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Another point, is that Kavanaugh portrayed HIMSELF as a horrible person, by the way he behaved, and so did the Republican senators who defended him. This circus should have caused more people to vote Democratic. While it may have done so, a little bit, in the blue states, as part of the 38-seat turnover in the House, in the red states the loonies voted to put more loony Republicans in the senate, rewarding Kavanaugh and the loonies already there for their horrible behavior with 2 more seats. It's like giving more candy to a crying baby.
A horrible person like myself would have completely flipped it around and began persecuting Amy Klobuchar and the black dude and Hispanic chick who didn't seem to know what country they live in or the basic laws and the Constitutional that relate to the country that they claim to be associated with but are some how still unable to relate with most of it.
I notice an attempt to develop some style. A little self-effacing humor. That is very American -- especially Silent. That sort of humor is heavily fossilized now.
Kavanaugh inappropriately accused Amy Klobuchar of being a problem drinker by asking the impertinent question, to effect "Isn't everybody?"
"Dude" and "chick" reduce people to their sexuality, so avoid using them in a professional context or relating them to a professional context unless they are in fact used. Formalities matter greatly in the Senate, where people are not identified as "the black dude (from New Jersey)" or the "Hispanic chick". I don't know of any Hispanic females in the Senate. Biracial Americans like Cory Booker and Kamala Harris are Americans in ways that I am not.
Parts of America are difficult for many Americans to relate to. If I am in Appalachia I am obviously a tourist. Its cultural norms are foreign to me.
Well, the black dude from New Jersey and the Hispanic chick from California and the Caucasian chick from Minnesota are supposed to be members of a political wing of a national party that no longer views issues or judges people or makes their decisions on the basis of ones race or gender. The Silents had class and got away with it by doing it with class. Well, we've moved beyond that as a society. Class no longer matters, the tolerance of society pertaining to what is viewed as acceptable or willing to live with has greatly increased to the point that just about anything goes these day. The social protections that women once grew up and learned to understand and learned take advantage of or enjoyed as women are disappearing and women are no longer being judged on the basis of their gender. Unfortunately, Amy Klobuchar ain't quite up to par with me or my values and if we were to ever meet she'd find out how far she was/is behind ordinary purples (men and women alike) like me. Bob doesn't seem to understand that there's two groups of progressives, a blue group that's fighting like crazy to protect itself and the systems they use to control and a reddish group who is working to break the cycles that has been trapping people and holding people back for years. BTW, according to you and your views of those who live in your area and view of those around you, you live in a poor God forsaken place like Appalachia.
Kamala Harris has a black American father and an India-born mother. She is not Hispanic.
Having class? Do you mean in the sense of socio-economic status (SES) or in showing off one's real or imagined economic success? Or is it cultural identity? SES applies to educational and vocational achievement, Showing off economically might impress someone like the late Paul Fussell if one spends money or time on some leisure activities and material objects than on some others. Being a high roller in Vegas and spending a lot of time there is less impressive than being heavily involved in the art scene in Boston. A sail boat may be similar in cost to a motorcycle, but riding the freeways on a motorcycle is less impressive than sailing around Cape Cod in a wind-powered wooden boat.
Having a bachelor's degree from Harvard is more impressive than having a PhD from a diploma mill.
Paul Fussell is no longer around to discuss the matter, but Donald Trump has great wealth but behavior characteristic of the sort of person who typically wins the Super Duper Megabucks lottery. He is vulgar in the extreme, as I showed on another thread.
You have me pinned down well on the sort of place in which I live. Maybe I have left too many clues. It was a good place to live when anyone with a good work ethic could get a well-paying job in a factory. That ended about 50 years ago. The factories, the most reliable means of escape from poverty, are no longer around.
OK, so what would I do if I had such money? Early? Grad school of some kind. I would have a passport full of endorsements from interesting places. House full of souvenirs? How impressive is a coffee cup with the name "PARIS" across it, the Eiffel Tower substituting for the A? You would tire of it, too. All that I envy about the rich is their foreign travel and their economic security.