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Post by
OverZealous
I love that people don't get so serious in the RB; it's a welcome break from the rest of Off-topic's discussions and debates.
:)
Post by
ElhonnaDS
Did you edit it to add a smiley face? lol
Post by
MyTie
Maybe it's just my personal experience, but my college was extremely culturally and ethnically diverse, and it was one of the things they promoted the most. I had a lot of friends not just of different ethnicities and religions, but who had come to the school from different countries and so had a completely different culture.
And no matter what cultural events were going on, I almost always got an invitation and was almost always was made to feel like a part of the group. Chinese Student Association doing Chinese New Year? El come we need you to help us make dumplings. Diwali time- El, do you have a sari or do you need to borrow one? We need a soprano for this Russian song for the international festival- El, you sing, right? Hey El, you're going to come root for Sri Lanka at the cricket game tomorrow, right? Stuff like that.
I actually got an award my senior year for the graduating student who had done the most to bridge cultural gaps during their college career. My friends said it just meant that I had hosted the parties that had gotten people from more countries drunk at once than anyone else :/
My military base in Alaska was host to the largest military areal exercise in the world once a year. During that time, military from all different countries from literally everywhere we had allies with airplanes came. The base was flooded with thousands of cultures. I loved it. I took out a different culture each year I was there. I kind of adopted them. I'd give them rides wherever they wanted, took them to the different restaurants, introduced the to the US, as best as I could. I think the most fun I had was with the Germans. Anyway, I understand what you mean. I love different cultures. At the same time, I don't see what that has to do with people who don't. If people don't want to get along with other cultures, but want to hole themselves up on a male only golf course... that's kind of their choice. It doesn't make them wrong and it doesn't make me right. Multiculturalism is fine, but it isn't something that you can force down people's throats.
Post by
OverZealous
Did you edit it to add a smiley face? lol
Never
:)
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909566
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
@ MyTie- Not on a personal level, no. But I believe that a business shouldn't be able to discriminate against customers or employees based on race or gender. And I think that those that do should be boycotted, especially by the groups that they are discriminating against. Maybe the law doesn't need to force the Augusta club to change- but I don't think a rich, successful woman who has takes a position that has for every male predecessor been gifted with a membership in this club, and who is denied said membership because she is a woman, should continue to give that organization her company's money. It's one thing to say they have the right to discriminate. It's another to say that people of the specific group they are discriminating against have no right to get upset or pull out funding because of it.
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909566
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
...She's the CEO of IBM.
Post by
MyTie
I think RB is not so subtly hinting they would like to go back to talking about anime and how much they wub eachother zomg beiber lol roflmao.
Anyway. I think we fundamentally agree more than disagree. Wanna call it quits? Or, do you want to fight over the dragon cartoon some more? Remember how much I love to fight.
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909566
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Post by
Milayu
I think RB is not so subtly hinting they would like to go back to talking about anime and how much they wub eachother zomg beiber lol roflmao.
Anyway. I think we fundamentally agree more than disagree. Wanna call it quits? Or, do you want to fight over the dragon cartoon some more? Remember how much I love to fight.
Feel free to ignore them. I actually enjoy conversations like this in the RB.
Post by
Patty
Best map ever.
I keep re-looking over battles in the books and being like "OH, so they went from here to there to over
thar
!"
Post by
ElhonnaDS
...She's the CEO of IBM.
dafuq kind of code name is that for a kitchen?
Clearly you've put her in her place. I'm sure that wherever she is, making decisions for one of the most successful companies in the world, she's feeling the sting of the opinion of her rightful place in society, from a man who cleans toilets for a living.
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909566
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Post by
Azazel
She probably has an office in the kitchen.
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909566
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909566
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Post by
ElhonnaDS
...She's the CEO of IBM.
From Urban Dictionary
CEO 390 up, 79 down
(1) Chief Executive Officer
(2) The Big Cheese
(3) The person in charge of a company who has no other qualifications but thinks he or she does.
(4) See also: #$%^&*!, idiot, pain in the ass, obstacle, bottleneck, waste, or worthless.
The CEO just took away all of our 401K funds!
Aww- does that make you feel better? That other angry people put some nasty stuff into an online resource about CEO's. Because I totally think Webster's is thinking about adopting that definition.
Post by
Milayu
Just report him and move on, Elhonna.
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909566
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