once again, such as when companies talk about how much they loose to competition or piracy, or when American politics needs to push whatever agenda they want down our throats, they use numbers that upon closer examination they just don't add up.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/23/abc-news-polling-guy-rips-apart-game-addiction-figures/
to quote barbie 'math is hard' so most people are willing to trust the numbers handed to them through the media are correct, even when they add up to 120%.. (I've seen it happen). It's a shame it happens. use your head people, or at least a calculator.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Video Games and addiction. don't be mislead by so called experts.
The Following is a blog piece copied without permission from 'Say yes to no' which has as a mantra an idea I am 100% behind. As it turns out the site itself mostly just reiterates the obvious that parents should lay down rules, and that video games are kid-harming evilness, despite the fact that it is the parents who are letting them play it. If I give a kid a lump of drugs to take and permission to do so in my house, I am not about to harp on how the drugs did it when the kid is screwed up. It is a shame this is the exact thing people try and do when it comes to the various media the children consume.
So I can say you've been informed on what I am commenting on, here is the blog post originally found here
My comments follow bellow PLEASE read them they are the main reason I posted this!
***BEGIN ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS***
Video Game Addiction, What to Do?
“How do I keep my kids from being addicted to video games?”
This is a frequent question at any talk I give. Video games are a powerful, addictive technology that sits right in the middle of our homes, often right in our kids’ bedrooms. Are video games fun? Sure. Can kids learn anything from them? They are learning every time they push the "on" button.
“What should I do? My kids love video games. They could play for hours.” Video games are as common for kids today as TV was for the previous generation.
As parents we teach and guide our kids. We need to pay attention to and guide our kids to a healthy use of technology and media. Most games are fun, teach positive skills like problem solving, and even get kids moving instead of just staring at a screen. How do we make sure that video games are healthy recreation for kids and don’t turn into the horror story of addiction and violent game playing? Some kids (and unfortunately a growing number) get so involved with gaming that it takes on all the traits of an addiction.
The Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Fifth Estate is Canada’s version of 60 Minutes. Last Friday they ran a forty minute documentary on video game addiction following the tragic story of Brandon Crisp, a young boy whose obsession with video games eventually led to his death. I was interviewed as the expert.
This tragic story reminds us that we need to pay attention, be the parent and set the rules for video game use:
(Edit: if you have to, read the post through the link for these rules, its just translates to be a parent.. Except this one!)
8. Children should be playing in the 3-D world as much as possible. Keep the video game playing in balance. Children’s brains need experiential, 3-D play as much as possible.
(KJ - I think he would have come out better saying REAL SPACE or real world. What happens when video games go 3D? he'll look like he is saying something he didn't intend!)
Check out our resources on video game addiction at the National Institute on Media and the Family.
Many parents have told me, “If I only knew what was in the game, I never would have bought it.” Check out game content before you buy. It’s hard to rewind, once a child is into a game.
Dr. Dave
Monday, March 09, 2009
***END ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS***
He is right. Parents should police their children and its a crying shame people are too mentally challenged to do so these days.
BUT HERE IS WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE GET IT SO VERY WRONG.
As Ghost Tiger and I have discussed many a time, addiction should be made into a blanket illness in the DSM (the standard book of diagnoses).
The current situation requires new studies and investigations into whatever fad is happening that year to see if its 'addictive'. This however, is a waste of resources since a wide and varied list of things that are enjoyable are addictive, signifying that it is insanity to try and catalog everything while the issue is the brain and its handling of pleasure.
One can argue games should be treated the same as drugs because studies have shown brain chemistry goes through a response during game playing. This ignores the fact that EVERY action one goes through over the course of the day, and indeed, over the course of their lives, effects their brain chemistry. It ignores the fundamental structure of the brain and how it works. Even when one narrows the brain chemistry reaction to the pleasure responses, then its addiction to the pleasure responses, NOT to whatever is triggering it in the individual.
If I see and comment on someone showing signs of addiction, I shouldn't have to wait for the DSM to recognize it after studies have been done. The medical profession owes us (not the pharmaceutical industry) a more sane approach to this situation.
So I can say you've been informed on what I am commenting on, here is the blog post originally found here
My comments follow bellow PLEASE read them they are the main reason I posted this!
***BEGIN ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS***
Video Game Addiction, What to Do?
“How do I keep my kids from being addicted to video games?”
This is a frequent question at any talk I give. Video games are a powerful, addictive technology that sits right in the middle of our homes, often right in our kids’ bedrooms. Are video games fun? Sure. Can kids learn anything from them? They are learning every time they push the "on" button.
“What should I do? My kids love video games. They could play for hours.” Video games are as common for kids today as TV was for the previous generation.
As parents we teach and guide our kids. We need to pay attention to and guide our kids to a healthy use of technology and media. Most games are fun, teach positive skills like problem solving, and even get kids moving instead of just staring at a screen. How do we make sure that video games are healthy recreation for kids and don’t turn into the horror story of addiction and violent game playing? Some kids (and unfortunately a growing number) get so involved with gaming that it takes on all the traits of an addiction.
The Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Fifth Estate is Canada’s version of 60 Minutes. Last Friday they ran a forty minute documentary on video game addiction following the tragic story of Brandon Crisp, a young boy whose obsession with video games eventually led to his death. I was interviewed as the expert.
This tragic story reminds us that we need to pay attention, be the parent and set the rules for video game use:
(Edit: if you have to, read the post through the link for these rules, its just translates to be a parent.. Except this one!)
8. Children should be playing in the 3-D world as much as possible. Keep the video game playing in balance. Children’s brains need experiential, 3-D play as much as possible.
(KJ - I think he would have come out better saying REAL SPACE or real world. What happens when video games go 3D? he'll look like he is saying something he didn't intend!)
Check out our resources on video game addiction at the National Institute on Media and the Family.
Many parents have told me, “If I only knew what was in the game, I never would have bought it.” Check out game content before you buy. It’s hard to rewind, once a child is into a game.
Dr. Dave
Monday, March 09, 2009
***END ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS***
He is right. Parents should police their children and its a crying shame people are too mentally challenged to do so these days.
BUT HERE IS WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE GET IT SO VERY WRONG.
As Ghost Tiger and I have discussed many a time, addiction should be made into a blanket illness in the DSM (the standard book of diagnoses).
The current situation requires new studies and investigations into whatever fad is happening that year to see if its 'addictive'. This however, is a waste of resources since a wide and varied list of things that are enjoyable are addictive, signifying that it is insanity to try and catalog everything while the issue is the brain and its handling of pleasure.
One can argue games should be treated the same as drugs because studies have shown brain chemistry goes through a response during game playing. This ignores the fact that EVERY action one goes through over the course of the day, and indeed, over the course of their lives, effects their brain chemistry. It ignores the fundamental structure of the brain and how it works. Even when one narrows the brain chemistry reaction to the pleasure responses, then its addiction to the pleasure responses, NOT to whatever is triggering it in the individual.
If I see and comment on someone showing signs of addiction, I shouldn't have to wait for the DSM to recognize it after studies have been done. The medical profession owes us (not the pharmaceutical industry) a more sane approach to this situation.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
P2P EATS BABIES, LAUNCHES MISSLES TOO!
Ok this isn't politcal in nature but it does need some rational thinking..
Recently a news piece is making the rounds about how data on marine one was leaked to iran, marine one being the american president's helicopter. The data covered the plane's layout its wiring, and its missle defense system.
The article, and the company responsible for the "discovery" of the data leak, refuse to mention what specific p2p network was used. Heres reuters take but there are many more hits for the story.
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0242383320090302
the company, called http://www.tiversa.com/ has made a niche market for themselves as the security experts on all matters P2P. This self imposed task, by which they hope to get rich I might add, is accomplished by monitoring peer to peer networks using monitoring software and then notifying people who have had content distributed in an infringing manner that it would have been easy to stop this behaviour if only they had hired them in the first place.
To scare companies into hiring them they like to lump all P2P together in the ability to give access of your entire hard-drive to the whole of the internet.
As it turns out this is false. By using weasel words like "most" and "virtualy" they are able to change the facts into this nightmare scenerio that requires all P2P to be stopped and banned on most if not all people's computer wether home or at work.
they are not the only ones though. Way back in May 07, 2008 Dan Kaplan wrote an article about McAfee announcing how they discovered "infection impacting hundreds of thousands of users whose machines contain poisoned media files" (I only mention the old article because it was featured beside the article on Obama's 'copter as related topic)
I implore you to not get your sole opinion from the article I am about to link to, I am only linking to it so that you have a refrence for the rest of my post.
http://www.scmagazineus.com/Fake-P2P-media-files-lead-to-adware-attack/article/109894/
media files do not harm your computer - its when you are dumb enough to click on a link or executable that the poster of the BROKEN file tells you will make the file work.
the article DOES go on to make that point.. albeit vaguely. But worst of all is when Minaxi Gupta, assistant professor of computer science at the Indiana University in Bloomington states:
“The only thing you can do [to protect yourself] is not join a P2P network and not download anything, or you can scan it to anti-virus when you get something,” she said. “Most people don't do that.”
So here are the facts.
Its when your employers are using OUTDATED P2P software instead of Torrents, that the contents of your hard-drive can be served on platter so to speak to the rest of the world. With torrents, you only serve what you create a torrent file for so since you have to select the contents you are sure to witness what is going into it. It was Kazaa and Napster and their spin-offs that had a "pick a directory" mentality to what data of yours to serve.
so. As a company, inforce a scan everything for viri policy, a policy against any codecs, dlls, or un-scanned executables being installed by anyone other than your company's I.T. guy and you will be fine.
Its when you freak out over the three letters P2P that you might miss out on some usefull collabrative software that just so happens to fall under that header. Also if you follow the above ideas you can save yourself the trouble of hiring a firm whose sole job is to spook you into hiring them.
Recently a news piece is making the rounds about how data on marine one was leaked to iran, marine one being the american president's helicopter. The data covered the plane's layout its wiring, and its missle defense system.
The article, and the company responsible for the "discovery" of the data leak, refuse to mention what specific p2p network was used. Heres reuters take but there are many more hits for the story.
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0242383320090302
the company, called http://www.tiversa.com/ has made a niche market for themselves as the security experts on all matters P2P. This self imposed task, by which they hope to get rich I might add, is accomplished by monitoring peer to peer networks using monitoring software and then notifying people who have had content distributed in an infringing manner that it would have been easy to stop this behaviour if only they had hired them in the first place.
To scare companies into hiring them they like to lump all P2P together in the ability to give access of your entire hard-drive to the whole of the internet.
As it turns out this is false. By using weasel words like "most" and "virtualy" they are able to change the facts into this nightmare scenerio that requires all P2P to be stopped and banned on most if not all people's computer wether home or at work.
they are not the only ones though. Way back in May 07, 2008 Dan Kaplan wrote an article about McAfee announcing how they discovered "infection impacting hundreds of thousands of users whose machines contain poisoned media files" (I only mention the old article because it was featured beside the article on Obama's 'copter as related topic)
I implore you to not get your sole opinion from the article I am about to link to, I am only linking to it so that you have a refrence for the rest of my post.
http://www.scmagazineus.com/Fake-P2P-media-files-lead-to-adware-attack/article/109894/
media files do not harm your computer - its when you are dumb enough to click on a link or executable that the poster of the BROKEN file tells you will make the file work.
the article DOES go on to make that point.. albeit vaguely. But worst of all is when Minaxi Gupta, assistant professor of computer science at the Indiana University in Bloomington states:
“The only thing you can do [to protect yourself] is not join a P2P network and not download anything, or you can scan it to anti-virus when you get something,” she said. “Most people don't do that.”
So here are the facts.
Its when your employers are using OUTDATED P2P software instead of Torrents, that the contents of your hard-drive can be served on platter so to speak to the rest of the world. With torrents, you only serve what you create a torrent file for so since you have to select the contents you are sure to witness what is going into it. It was Kazaa and Napster and their spin-offs that had a "pick a directory" mentality to what data of yours to serve.
so. As a company, inforce a scan everything for viri policy, a policy against any codecs, dlls, or un-scanned executables being installed by anyone other than your company's I.T. guy and you will be fine.
Its when you freak out over the three letters P2P that you might miss out on some usefull collabrative software that just so happens to fall under that header. Also if you follow the above ideas you can save yourself the trouble of hiring a firm whose sole job is to spook you into hiring them.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
interesting discussion about a lego game version of a clockwork orange here -
http://blog.pjsattic.com/corvus/2009/01/a-lego-orange/comment-page-1/#comment-82921
corvus is worth watching and I will have to start following him over at -
I am reprinting a very insightful post by another blogger because I think this info should be known and passed around as much as possible.. If the author requests I take it down I will, but the odds of that are slim since nobody reads my blogs. I paste it here in case it goes down on his page for some reason.
the original can be found at: http://klausler.com/cargo.html (if you take off cargo.html you can read about his life programming cray super computers and riding a BMW motorcycle)
Principles of the American Cargo Cult
by Peter Klausler
I wrote these principles after reflecting on the content of contemporary newspapers and broadcast media and why that content disquieted me. I saw that I was not disturbed so much by what was written or said as I was by what is not. The tacit assumptions underlying most popular content reflect a worldview that is orthogonal to reality in many ways. By reflecting this skewed weltanschauung, the media reinforces and propagates it.
I call this worldview the American Cargo Cult, after the real New Guinea cargo cults that arose after the second world war. There are four main points, each of which has several elaborating assumptions. I really do think that most Americans believe these things at a deep level, and that these misbeliefs constantly underlie bad arguments in public debate.
I. Ignorance is innocence
Complicated explanations are suspect
The world is simple, and there must be a simple explanation for everything.
Certainty is strength, doubt is weakness
Admitting alternatives is undermining one's own belief.Changing one's mind means one has wasted the time spent holding the prior opinion.
Your opinion matters as much as anyone else's
When a person has studied a topic, he has no more real knowledge than you do, just a hidden agenda.
The herd should be followed
The contemplative lemming gets trampledPopular beliefs must be true.No bad idea can survive.People are generally smart.Even if a popular belief doesn't pan out, at least you'll be in the same boat as everyone else.
II. Causality is selectable
All interconnection is apparent
Otherwise, complicated explanations would be necessary.
The end supports the explanation of the means
A successful person's explanation of the means of his success is highly credible by the very fact of his success.
You can succeed by emulating the purported behavior of successful people
This is the key to the cargo cult. To enjoy the success of another, just mimic the rituals he claims to follow.Your idol gets the blame if things don't work out, not you.
You have a right to your share
You get to define your share.Your share is the least you will accept without crying injustice.Celebrate getting more than your share.
III. It's not your fault
If it's good for you, it's good
Society is everyone else.
Good intentions suffice
You can always apologize.
There is no long term
Don't miss an opportunity.
Consequences are things that happen to others
Only you can hold yourself accountable. Don't let others make you do that.If somebody starts the blame game, you can still win it.There are evil people and institutions, and surely one of them is more responsible than you are.
You are not the problem
An ugly image means a bad mirror.
IV. Death is unnatural
You're special
Bad things shouldn't happen to you.
Pain is wrong
Life should not hurt.It's a Whiffle World.
Tragedy is a synonym for calamity
Bad things are never consequences of one's own action or inaction.
There will be justice
Bad people get punished.You, however, will be forgiven
the original can be found at: http://klausler.com/cargo.html (if you take off cargo.html you can read about his life programming cray super computers and riding a BMW motorcycle)
Principles of the American Cargo Cult
by Peter Klausler
I wrote these principles after reflecting on the content of contemporary newspapers and broadcast media and why that content disquieted me. I saw that I was not disturbed so much by what was written or said as I was by what is not. The tacit assumptions underlying most popular content reflect a worldview that is orthogonal to reality in many ways. By reflecting this skewed weltanschauung, the media reinforces and propagates it.
I call this worldview the American Cargo Cult, after the real New Guinea cargo cults that arose after the second world war. There are four main points, each of which has several elaborating assumptions. I really do think that most Americans believe these things at a deep level, and that these misbeliefs constantly underlie bad arguments in public debate.
I. Ignorance is innocence
Complicated explanations are suspect
The world is simple, and there must be a simple explanation for everything.
Certainty is strength, doubt is weakness
Admitting alternatives is undermining one's own belief.Changing one's mind means one has wasted the time spent holding the prior opinion.
Your opinion matters as much as anyone else's
When a person has studied a topic, he has no more real knowledge than you do, just a hidden agenda.
The herd should be followed
The contemplative lemming gets trampledPopular beliefs must be true.No bad idea can survive.People are generally smart.Even if a popular belief doesn't pan out, at least you'll be in the same boat as everyone else.
II. Causality is selectable
All interconnection is apparent
Otherwise, complicated explanations would be necessary.
The end supports the explanation of the means
A successful person's explanation of the means of his success is highly credible by the very fact of his success.
You can succeed by emulating the purported behavior of successful people
This is the key to the cargo cult. To enjoy the success of another, just mimic the rituals he claims to follow.Your idol gets the blame if things don't work out, not you.
You have a right to your share
You get to define your share.Your share is the least you will accept without crying injustice.Celebrate getting more than your share.
III. It's not your fault
If it's good for you, it's good
Society is everyone else.
Good intentions suffice
You can always apologize.
There is no long term
Don't miss an opportunity.
Consequences are things that happen to others
Only you can hold yourself accountable. Don't let others make you do that.If somebody starts the blame game, you can still win it.There are evil people and institutions, and surely one of them is more responsible than you are.
You are not the problem
An ugly image means a bad mirror.
IV. Death is unnatural
You're special
Bad things shouldn't happen to you.
Pain is wrong
Life should not hurt.It's a Whiffle World.
Tragedy is a synonym for calamity
Bad things are never consequences of one's own action or inaction.
There will be justice
Bad people get punished.You, however, will be forgiven
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
word of the day.
Placist:
While looking for software to monitor bandwidth usage my wife, Ris bumped into a person bitching about the chinese people he had to share his bandwidth with, finally ending with the wish he could say "go back to china". He doesnt say that 'cause that would be rude nevermind the fact that he is a Chinese man born there in Aussieland. Ris read that and piped up "ya, you aren't a racist you are just a placist. feh." then she gave me a look like, holy shiznit I just invented a word and I love the sound of it.
Placist:
While looking for software to monitor bandwidth usage my wife, Ris bumped into a person bitching about the chinese people he had to share his bandwidth with, finally ending with the wish he could say "go back to china". He doesnt say that 'cause that would be rude nevermind the fact that he is a Chinese man born there in Aussieland. Ris read that and piped up "ya, you aren't a racist you are just a placist. feh." then she gave me a look like, holy shiznit I just invented a word and I love the sound of it.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
backlog of political rhetoric by me
I had mixed in my blog my love of media and my political points of view before spliting them. Here are the all the blog posts I felt that were misplaced on my other blog. the cleaned up version of Kaneda Jones' Mediaverse can be found at http://kanedajones.blogspot.com/
Now that blog can be (mostly) politics free and this kinda stuff can live over here.
heres all the political stuff from over there:
two hypocritical sides of the same fucked coin.
Thursday, December 25, 2008 3:32 PM
the right wing promote their ideals with a percieved push for individual freedoms,while they are actually quite monolithic and demanding that you toe the party line.the left wing promote their ideals with a percieved push for a collective concern for others,while they are actually quite full of individualists who argue and fight amongst themselves.
a prime example of using promotion to compensate for what is actually lacking. No need ever to promote what is readily visible to the public ;)
answers to stupidity 1st edition
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:21 AM
I wish my mind kept a list of all the stupid things I see everyday but daaaang that would be a long list. I had more to say but so far I'll keep it to these two.
-----------------------------
case one: my own stupidity.
-----------------------------
Someone asked me recently why I made the assumption that they were a potential "runaway train" (my words to them) when it came to their behaviour with me in regards to a 'potential' friendship. I got this question after explaining that they seemed quite level headed which was a suprise to me after seeing them elsewhere on the intarwebs being quite the firebrand. I pointed out at the time that it was just because passion in one area made me assume passion in all areas.. turns out that with deeper thinking I realize there were other additive factors. I realize now that it was also the swiftness of replies in messages and the directness.
Here is the interesting thing all you who read this should consider though..
Does someone who can be prompt and explanitory deserve to be lumped in with the emotionaly unstable? I think Society at large has trained us to be delicate when it comes to interactions with other humans to the point where we all are supposed to hide our real intent, then hint at that intent vaguely, in fear that the direct aproach might offend. My best friend Ris has always been hated for being to direct (I myself love her for it) and it was a shame I did not think another person was acting in that way. Someone send you a few emails or IMs in one day? So what.. consider the fact that maybe they just want an answer. heh.
maybe I wont hear from them again, or maybe I am getting a taste of my own medicine - slow replies. *sigh* oh well, such is life.
------------------------------------
Case two: someone elses stupidity.
------------------------------------
Anne Coultre recently went on "the view" to promote her new book and Barbera Walters read a quote from it in distain. The quote was about black celebs (she had a list but I can't find the quote so no list for you feh). These black celebs, Obama included, had white mothers and black fathers.. had their black fathers run away from parenting and the white mothers raise them, and then still self identify as black. Anne had the idiocy to ask why identify with the race that left you? Why dont these individuals identify as white?
fuck is she dumb. I don't know if she is only dumb when its convenient or by her own nature.
Each had a dark enough complexion to get themselves lambasted in the media and society in general if the dared to call themselves "white". Society inforces this rule, just look at coverage of Tiger Woods.. I see white golf announcers call him black a billion times more than I see him talk about being black. Society also goes out of its way to ask where you decended from country-wise if you are white but fail to do so as often with people of any color.. assumptions get made. I cant believe the amount of people I know who can't tell the diffrence between korean, chinese, japanese, and the long list of small pacific islands.. (thai, singaporians, etc)
So to summarize, if you aren't the whitest white to other whites, you ain't called white by the so called civilized world. I mean, Anne, ask yourself if you ever saw a guy identifing as white who didnt look white to you.. prob not.
its called pragmatism. So why dont they identify as white? Cause you wouldn't let them if they tried.
Now that blog can be (mostly) politics free and this kinda stuff can live over here.
heres all the political stuff from over there:
two hypocritical sides of the same fucked coin.
Thursday, December 25, 2008 3:32 PM
the right wing promote their ideals with a percieved push for individual freedoms,while they are actually quite monolithic and demanding that you toe the party line.the left wing promote their ideals with a percieved push for a collective concern for others,while they are actually quite full of individualists who argue and fight amongst themselves.
a prime example of using promotion to compensate for what is actually lacking. No need ever to promote what is readily visible to the public ;)
answers to stupidity 1st edition
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:21 AM
I wish my mind kept a list of all the stupid things I see everyday but daaaang that would be a long list. I had more to say but so far I'll keep it to these two.
-----------------------------
case one: my own stupidity.
-----------------------------
Someone asked me recently why I made the assumption that they were a potential "runaway train" (my words to them) when it came to their behaviour with me in regards to a 'potential' friendship. I got this question after explaining that they seemed quite level headed which was a suprise to me after seeing them elsewhere on the intarwebs being quite the firebrand. I pointed out at the time that it was just because passion in one area made me assume passion in all areas.. turns out that with deeper thinking I realize there were other additive factors. I realize now that it was also the swiftness of replies in messages and the directness.
Here is the interesting thing all you who read this should consider though..
Does someone who can be prompt and explanitory deserve to be lumped in with the emotionaly unstable? I think Society at large has trained us to be delicate when it comes to interactions with other humans to the point where we all are supposed to hide our real intent, then hint at that intent vaguely, in fear that the direct aproach might offend. My best friend Ris has always been hated for being to direct (I myself love her for it) and it was a shame I did not think another person was acting in that way. Someone send you a few emails or IMs in one day? So what.. consider the fact that maybe they just want an answer. heh.
maybe I wont hear from them again, or maybe I am getting a taste of my own medicine - slow replies. *sigh* oh well, such is life.
------------------------------------
Case two: someone elses stupidity.
------------------------------------
Anne Coultre recently went on "the view" to promote her new book and Barbera Walters read a quote from it in distain. The quote was about black celebs (she had a list but I can't find the quote so no list for you feh). These black celebs, Obama included, had white mothers and black fathers.. had their black fathers run away from parenting and the white mothers raise them, and then still self identify as black. Anne had the idiocy to ask why identify with the race that left you? Why dont these individuals identify as white?
fuck is she dumb. I don't know if she is only dumb when its convenient or by her own nature.
Each had a dark enough complexion to get themselves lambasted in the media and society in general if the dared to call themselves "white". Society inforces this rule, just look at coverage of Tiger Woods.. I see white golf announcers call him black a billion times more than I see him talk about being black. Society also goes out of its way to ask where you decended from country-wise if you are white but fail to do so as often with people of any color.. assumptions get made. I cant believe the amount of people I know who can't tell the diffrence between korean, chinese, japanese, and the long list of small pacific islands.. (thai, singaporians, etc)
So to summarize, if you aren't the whitest white to other whites, you ain't called white by the so called civilized world. I mean, Anne, ask yourself if you ever saw a guy identifing as white who didnt look white to you.. prob not.
its called pragmatism. So why dont they identify as white? Cause you wouldn't let them if they tried.
My new politcal home
I recently entered into blogging and tried to create a blog that would be a balance of all of my interests.. only to realize people hate to be exposed to to many non-related things at once.
I will migrate all my politics here and hopefully find readers interested in either supporting or tearing apart my ideas. heh. cross my fingers.
I will migrate all my politics here and hopefully find readers interested in either supporting or tearing apart my ideas. heh. cross my fingers.
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