Why do white people have such a hard time respecting cultures and identities of others?
(I’m a white Mediterranean)I’ll tell you a funny story: I’ve arrived in London all happy about living within hundreds of different cultures, and with an extremely negative view of who has something against, for example, “black people”. This also due to the fact that, back in Italy, I did have friends of different ethnicities.Now it’s my 2nd year in London, and I perfectly understand all these hard feelings about 3rd world cultures: they are NASTY. The level of ignorance and impoliteness is something completely alien to a civilized country such as Italy, in which I grew up - and trust me that I’ve seen some in there (I grew up in rural Italy, with some “friends” ending up in jail for armed robbery). For instance: young single mothers. I’ve worked as sound tech in many London venues, and I would estimate a 80% of the black female bartenders (around 20 years old) that I’ve met were single mothers. The black girls without kids were actually kind of an exception…! This is absolutely crazy - and, yet, “common” within certain cultures.Another example: I always thought that the “black criminal” stereotype was kind of a brotherly joke just to poke fun to each other - until I’ve noticed how 90% of the crime I’ve witnessed has been carried out by people with dark skin complexion. And even in general, it is good advise to stay away at night from crowds of black folks (advice gave me for the first time, hilariously enough, from a Pakistani friend).I think everybody knows about this, but chooses to willfully ignore so to jump on the high horse and use it for political purpose. It’s almost as if there’s a competition for who can show love for the most repelling stuff, so to demonstrate how compassionate and worthy of respect are they.A positive note: one fine day, I’ve worked at a Vietnamese party. Outside me and some colleagues, there were only vietnameses - hundreds. They were so nice to each other and us, so correct, that whilst the party was going on, I started to feel bad thinking about how their country had to go through a terrible event such as the Vietnam war. Somewhat asking myself “How could someone want to bomb people like these?”.And, also: Japanese people. I think I can summarize what kind of people are they with the fact that, almost every time I saw them at a restaurant, they cleaned their table and brought their dirty dishes to the counter. Which made me think “From 1 to Japanese, how polite are you?”
How can one stop thinking about sex all the time?
The time you started analyzing yourself and undrstand that you're doing something wrong , from that moment you made yourself prepared to quit it. Don't worry old habbits never goes too fast. Just don't force extremely to quit in a day because you can't. These habbits take longer time to quit than to adopt.My friend you become addicted to it and whenever you in a need to see porn your dopamine act as it works in an alcoholic person. You feel like one porn is not much or you can't go for sleep if you don't see it. Just like an alcoholic person who thought one shot is not much.If you now made yourself to quit do these things: 1. Whenever you want to watch just avoid looking at your phone and pc and try to talk to your friends on something else or sit between your family or watch songs.2. Never think that one clip is not much because it won't let you out of it.3. Stop looking at random girls more often. Try to avoid who is passing by. That is not a girl who make you excited but its you who allowing your mind think about those thoughts.4. If you can't ignore girls try to figure out the worst things in that girl. Their rudeness, bad attitude, ignorance , arrogance etc.I think it will help you to get it over in months. if you still watch porn in weeks, that'll be acceptable but don't let your mind to repeat it again.
Do people actually enjoy reading classic books like Moby Dick? Or do they like them simply because they are "classics"?
Classic books are a piece of art. Like most paintings, pictures, sculptures and songs, the content isn’t always apparent, and most people don’t keep that in mind.Imagine it like this:You are in a museum, trying to get to a certain exposition. You don’t quite know what the theme is, but you have heard excellent reviews about it. The thing is, when you get inside you realize you are on your own. There are no guides, no audio guides, no artwork descriptions, nothing.Then, you see this:Guernica (Picasso) - WikipediaYou remember that the exhibition is about war. However, this doesn’t look like war. It doesn’t look like anything at all! Well, there is a broken sword in there. Is that it?You spend several minutes examining the piece, in the meantime a group of, what it seems like, history professors or art historians pass by, amazed at it. Completely blown away. “Why are they so excited about this? It does not make any sense” you think with yourself.What I am trying to say is that without context or connection with classic works, you won’t enjoy it. Most of the classic books were written a few hundred years ago, by someone with a totally different background and culture from yourself. You won’t enjoy it if you don’t understand it. It’s natural that this occurs.To enjoy a classic workpiece we need one of the two things, connection with the subject/content or an understanding of it. We need to establish a common ground with what was written. That can be a connection with a character, or an experience or even with the time period. Something that we can relate to within the book.Without that, we should be able to grasp why a book is considered a classic. If we understand it, we can start to make sense of it. So, reading the history behind the book, reviews and critics, allows us to read it with the previous knowledge required of us.If you get a book and blindly start reading it, you are going to have a hard time. Don’t get me wrong, I dislike some of the classic books I’ve read. However, by trying to understand them I can still appreciate them even without liking it.
Hurricane Catarina?
it's called Cyclone Catarina. Cyclone Catarina was an extremely rare South Atlantic tropical cyclone. Catarina hit southeastern Brazil in late March of 2004, and though not the first southern Atlantic tropical cyclone, it was the first positively identified hurricane-strength system in the basin. Formation: Catarina developed off a cold-core stationary upper-level trough became established offshore southern Brazil on March 12, 2004. Whether Catarina was a result of global warming is still debatable. There have been claims of global warming, but none has been solidly proved, as yet. Typically, tropical cyclones do not form in the South Atlantic Ocean, due to strong upper level shear, cool water temperatures, and the lack of a convergence zone of convection. Occasionally though, as seen in 1991 and early 2004, conditions can become slightly more favorable. Formation of another storm in the same region with similar intensity is extremely rare, because at the time, it was the 'strongest ever'. However, there have been other similar but less intense South Atlantic storms like the Angola tropical cyclone of 1991 and another cyclone in the same area in Brazil in mid/late January of 2004. References: http://www.answers.com/topic/south-atlantic-tropical-cyclone http://www.answers.com/hurricane%20catarina http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/G7.html