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grades as of now
Steel Drum Band A+
English 10 A+
Latin II B- if I'm lucky
World Studies. A++
Chemisry. Got A's the first 3 quarters, now have a C- for the last one, cause teh teacher screwed up. Figure i'll get a B last nine weeks, and an A or A- as a final
Jazz Band A+
Algerbra II B
Concert Band A+
Health A+

GPA (cum. for all high school classes taken 3.58)
not good, considering that that makes my class rank barely over 50%...my high school is super competitve.

a frenchman, a preist, a rabbi and a blonde all walk into a bar. the bartender says, "hey! is this somekind of joke?"

keep that up and I'll kill you

okay, cool. thanks

hey, can you fix mine now flippy?

Just b/c Mitar is having some trouble doesn't mean he has to take it out on us. sorry Mitar for your loss, go in good health, but, I must agree with m0ds. Don't come back until you have matured a little. You might have more fun with other 12 years olds (if you are 12) in say, CS forums.

no, the cowboys never realyl wanted multiculturism. Right from the get-go, most ameicans thought that the indians were "savages", and not as human as they were. Any trading that went on was just a cover for their ultimate goal: to conquor their land, so America would reach from sea to sea.

What you have descibed is something called imperialism, where one culture feels it is better then another, and trys to conquor it. This is NOT multicultialism. The former is one destoying the other and plundering it. The later is mixing of the two, and providing an free exchange of ideas, inventions, and such. The former is horrible for society, and is a byproduct of ignorance. The later can only do good.

The cowboy/indian problem was worsened by a lack of multicultualism. The only times cowboys or indians appeared in each other's cultures were when they were demonized.

maybe. I but remember being in middle school when it was on the news, and then I think he tried to make a comeback into the NBA. I could be wrong. maybe he knew about it before the news story broke and such.

edit::: no actually, you were right. I was wrong. My bad.

firstly jimi, not to move off-topic, but could you please try a little harder on your typing? Your typos and misspellings make it hard for me to read what you write.

anyways, back to what you said. at least, what I think you said. What nations tend to do for other, more developing nations is provide loans, or trade, rather then give outright dough or food. (although groups not international groups, like the UN or the Red Cross, which are composed of several different cultures across the world trying to help everyone, often do) Giving loans, or trading, (food for oil, for example) makes sense both economically and politically for both nations. Both America and the nation is question get something out of the deal. America gets the product, (dimonds, oil, clothes, etc.) and the other nation gets food, and hopefully, people to teach them and help them get back on their feet. Also, having an unstable, starving nation is not good for the international community, as those are the types of places where terrorists tend to come from, or rebels and civil war.
Indifference from the more prosperous nations to other culture's plights cause anger from people. Those who have the most, can share the most.
Aid to developing nations will make them more stable, and help them get on their feet, not cause riots and crime like you suggest. where has that happened before? which nation in Africa attacked a world power due to cut-off aid? Starving nations in the middle east attack America not because we dont aid them, but because the country has been unable to hepl itself, and radicals have come to power with religous hated towards the west, caused partly by their inabilty to communicate with them. Something that could be fixed by multicultalism.

hahahahahahaahha! that's great dave

what I ment in by countries disapearing, is that their population would have decreased so much, and that the % infected would be so great, that government would be almost impossible.


also, magic johnson learned he had HIV a lot sooner then that, I think closer to 5 years ago. I was in 6th or 7th grade then

Jimi, which undeveloped nations/cultures are you refering to? Some examples please

of course remexior. I think that gov. aid ought to be used to educate these people about how exactly they get AIDS, as the current rate of infection is so high, that some countries might cease to exsist in 10 years

that, and you can't catch AIDS nearly as easily as SARS. AIDS can be prevented by a simple lifestyle, (don't use needles, don't have sex with untested person)

hey there! grab a slice, a cold one, and enjoy teh show

I wouldn't worry too much over something like this that you really can't control. It just gets you depressed. Wash your hands, don'e eat crap, live healthly, and if you die of SARS, hey. you did all you could do.

Sponge, you are correct that at first, there would sitll be conflcit. However, one has to look at the alternitive. If we were to completely remove other cultures from our own, thus creating serveral tiny groups of cultures, momentary peace might occur. But as time gows on, people will begin to wonder why they aren't living together. People would think that if both races were equel, there would be no reason to stay seperate. This sort of attitude creates culture-hating of an even larger scale. Then, whats to stop one race from trying to destory another "inferior" one?

Communication is vital to keep these sorts of radical, misplaced thoughts in check. Its a lot easier to hate somebody when you have never met one, only hearing horror stories about them.


where the crap is my partner?

9/11 was not caused by multi-culture. It was caused by a fanatic who had a haterd for America and the west which was unfounded. Jimi, are you suggesting that america should not have let the terrorts learn to fly because they are Arab? That doesn't really make sense, since America was built on the notion that all men are created equal, and that no race be better then another. If the terrrorists couldn't fly, they would find some other way to exploit america's weaknesses, like driving a truck, or car bombs. Car bombs have been used by terrorists forever.

Also, the whole anlantic ocean thing. Since the invention of the airplane, having a huge chunk of water seperating you from other countries doesn't hepl much...all you have to do is fly. Also, the revolutionary war took place on the american mainland. how did the brits get here? By boats. Lots of boats. If America wan't afraid of being attacked now, we wouldn't have bothered to fight any wars.

Also, the military might of America didn't happen over night. Americans didn't invent gunpowder, the Chineese did. We didn't invent the tank, or the AK-47, but we use them. The atomic bomb was developed in America....by an itailian and a German. Without the inventions and ideas of other cultures, we would have be nothing.

Heck, look at me. I'm using AGS...developed by a non-american. See, if I refused to interact with people of other cultures, I wouldn't even be here.

I am afriad that I must beg to differ with your comment about how people are programmed at birth to hate certain people. Humans are not born hating. Humans are only born knowing how to cry. Humans are taught to hate by their enviroment, usually by their family or mis-guided peers.

Hate is usually becuase of a misunderstanding, (i.e Hitler hated the Jews, b/c he felt the was a worldwide plot for the jews to overthrow the rest of the world.) Interaciton between people sets away these myths, and hate disolves. A man might have a black man, or a Mormon, or what have you, but by interaction and humaniazation, (where one sees that the object of his hate has many things in common with himself), hate disapates.
By having different cultures live, and work together in one society, what they share in common is learned, which leads to a construtive living and working conditions.

first of all, I'm going to assume that by evil, adnail ment me again, as thats whats on the schedule.

It is imperitive for a nation, or any society, to be able to have different cultures, for political reasons, economic reasons, and more the progrssion of the society itself.

Firstly, let's take a look at the political aspect. For simplicity's sake, Let's take this from the presepective of a country. Many nations have tried to purge themselves of other cultures, in an attempt to achive some sort of complete solidarity. Like, , China, until the 1970s. China tried to eliminate the influence of other cultures, (namely the west). By locking itself away from the rest of the world, China suffered huge retartations in growth in techology, economic growth, and medicene. It's huge population starved. Eventually, they learned that they had things to learn from other cultures, namely the west again, so it could feed its people, and succede in world affairs.

Secondly, there is economics. This closely is tied with the the first. When a society stays withen itself, products produced or ideas created by others are not used. The inabilty to work with others prohibits one from being able to make the most amount of money, or to prosper.

Finally, and most important, is for the society itself. We learn to tolerate and understand others by being around them. If we all sat around and talked and learned about other cultures, bigotry and hate would be afar less prevelant. The culture of the society would be enlightend, and it would be a far better place to live.

We need other people to survive. No man, or society, is an island.