More difficult than it looks.

Making a collectivist game/tv show is a lot harder than it sounds. There can't be a winner and everyone must be included. Since we live in a individualist culture, we're used to playing competitive games with a clear winner. It just feels weird to be out of our element, trying to think of a game that makes no sense to us.

Cultural Differences like South Dakota

Recently, a few of my friends went on the Pine Ridge break, and they came back in a culture shock. Their stories about how open the land was, and how the skies were so clear reminded me of my family's house in Virginia. It's all open there, you can see mountains for miles and miles. You can see galaxies at night; it's crystal clear. Like Pine Ridge, in some parts of Rocky Gap, poverty is evident. Many live in small trailers that become damaged in just about every storm. The closest Wal-Mart is about 30 miles and the gas station is about 5.
I'd love to go to SD next year, but I don't think it'd have the same shock on me as my fellow peeps.

Classy People on the Internet

Paul Iacono’s (he plays RJ Berger in "The Hard Times of RJ Berger" on MTV) came out as gay recently.

Although there have been many supporting comments, there are the maliciously, non-sensical ones.

Here are some of the many outrageous comments on facebook:

• wowoow no longer my fav show fuck
• Wow way 2 ruin a show fag LOL
• I quit watching this show.
• He always looked like a queer
• that’s disappointing…faggot!
• Why are they lettin so many fags into show biz?
• Well can’t watch that show anymore… Damn it was funny

I wasn't aware that someone's sexuality affects the way they act or the show they are on. This must be new !!
It's sad that it's the 21st century, and there are still people like this in the world, spreading hate just because they think their opinion is more relevant and right than other's.

NYPD Stereotyping

In 2011, 87% of people stopped by the NYPD were black and Hispanic.

Adding to that, only 12% of those stopped were actually arrested. But, why were blacks and Hispanics targeted more over the whites? It's just the typical stereotyping of blacks and Hispanics that they commit all the crimes and are the bad guys. I think the police have forgotten that white people commit crimes too! While they're wasting their time stopping "suspicious" people, they're probably missing some real criminals who are probably white; they'd never suspect them!

"And who was it that got stop-and-frisked the most? 92 percent of those stopped were males, and 87 percent of those stopped were black or Hispanic, a glaring disparity considering blacks and Hispanics make up only 59 percent of the city’s population."

These statistics just show that America is so hung up on stereotyping races for something that a small sliver has done.

“It is not a crime to walk down the street in New York City, yet every day innocent black and brown New Yorkers are turned into suspects for doing just that. It is a stunning abuse of power that undermines trust between police and the community.”




Link to article: http://www.thelifefiles.com/2012/02/14/87-of-people-stopped-and-frisked-by-the-nypd-are-black-and-hispanic/