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'We're a culture, not a costume' this Halloween
CNN ^
| October 26, 2011
| Emanuella Grinberg
Posted on 10/26/2011 11:21:29 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
(CNN) -- Thinking about donning a kimono to dress like a geisha for Halloween, or a Mexican mariachi suit?
Students from Ohio University have a message for you: "We're a culture, not a costume."
With ethnic and racial stereotypes becoming increasingly popular Halloween costume themes, members of the school's Students Teaching About Racism in Society are launching a campaign to make revelers think twice before reducing a culture to a caricature, the group's president said.
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cultures; halloween
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To: Immerito
Hmmm....that explains why my goats have been huddling in their goat house in a decidedly conspiratorial manner.
[but what of the Pythons...informants?!?]
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posted on
10/26/2011 8:05:19 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
To: Immerito; MeganC
Meat is meat and dogs can digest rotten carrion.
:)
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posted on
10/26/2011 8:06:02 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
To: Immerito
No...*this* is cruelty to Dobermanns.
....:-P
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posted on
10/26/2011 8:09:06 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
To: ConservativeStatement
OU the #1 party school in Amertca.
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posted on
10/26/2011 8:12:20 PM PDT
by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: Salamander
“Perhaps if I lie perfectly still, she’ll have pity on me.”
Maybe that should be the theme of the next Freepathon—donate or the doberman gets it. ;-)
“Open your wallet or the doberman gets a wallop.”
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posted on
10/26/2011 8:47:02 PM PDT
by
Immerito
(Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
To: ConservativeStatement
According to the Department of Cultural Awareness, cannibal or zombie costumes are no longer acceptable.
The department made a statement last week, revealing the zombie and cannibal communities have sought restraining orders against several major costume manufactures in California, in an effort to avoid stereotyping minority cultures.
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posted on
10/26/2011 8:55:40 PM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Salamander
Obviously. They “keep it on the down low” quite literally.
:-)
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posted on
10/26/2011 9:09:32 PM PDT
by
Immerito
(Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
To: Oztrich Boy
1. Snookie is Chilean.
2. Guidos are not, and have never been, cool.
3. Only one person on that stupid show is from NJ.
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posted on
10/26/2011 9:20:47 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
To: Immerito
Shhhhhh......it'ssssss a sssssssssssssssssecret......
49
posted on
10/27/2011 12:18:58 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
To: Immerito; TheOldLady
Hey TOL!
There’s yer next FReepathon “donate-or-else!” threat post idea....LOL
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posted on
10/27/2011 12:21:20 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Can't sleep....the clowns will eat me.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Students. Get over yourselves, you ignorant fools. Sit down and shut your yaps and open your eyes and ears for ten years or so until you unlearn all the marxist propaganda you’ve been lapping up like cyanide-laced kool-aid all the years of your so-called “education.”
Seriously, you don’t know a damn thing that’s worth knowing.
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posted on
10/27/2011 4:00:30 AM PDT
by
TheOldLady
(FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
To: NavyCanDo
Your post is worthless without pictures. ;-p
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posted on
10/27/2011 4:31:29 AM PDT
by
TheOldLady
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To: Salamander
Many thanks to Salamander and Odhinn
Click the pic and donate
or the Doberman gets it!
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posted on
10/27/2011 5:04:18 AM PDT
by
TheOldLady
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To: KarlInOhio
Ah, well let's hope the yoots don't wear togas while they are killing brain cells.
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