I have a bruise under my big toenail and a soccer game in two days? Can I/Should I play?
NO! Do not play! I had the same problem and i made the mistake of playing anf half way through the game i kick teh ball and my toe tail got ripped off! But it depends on how bad yours is, if it hurts to walk in soceer boots then dont play. If your toe is al ittle better i two days then but cloth and medical tape on it. But wearing old boots will not help, your toenail is going to fall off if you were any soccer boots But , like i said, it depends how bad it is.
Black dolls vs white dolls?
It seems stupid...but at the same time, it makes a lot sense... I mean, the color of a doll SHOULDN'T be a big deal, but in America color is everything. Color has our minds warped. Have you read about this study that was conducted where little Black girls, when asked which was more attractive, chose the White doll over the Black doll? I'm assuming that the mother in the store didn't want to buy her daughter the White doll because a lot of Blacks are very vulnerable to color complexes, as exemplifed in that study. There are already too many bad images and perceptions of being and looking Black so we have to teach them young that there's NOTHING wrong with the Black appearance (and even Black dolls lol). I'm going to buy my daughter dolls of every race, but the large majority will be Black.
Can two football/soccer teams wear the same color jerseys?
I notice Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United, and other clubs wear red jerseys. But I've never seen them play each other both wearing red. I understand home and away colors but what if one side's home color is red, and they are hosting their opponent whose away color is also red? Do they both wear red? Do you have to strictly follow the home and away colors, or can an away team wear their home colors? Or is there a rule where one team must change their colors if the other team's has the same color? If so, how do they decide? When Barcelona played United at Wembley, United had to wear white because Barca are red and blue, even though the blue on Barca's shirt was already enough to easily distinguish them from United's red. Is there a rule where the colors of both teams have to be totally different where not a single color can be shared in the case of jerseys with multiple colors or stripes? e.g. can a team with red and white stripes wear that shirt against a team in all red, or red and blue stripes? In the case of Wembley, neither side was host, so in the case where neither team has home advantage, how do they decide which team gets to wear their home colors?
Mesut Ozil: Do you find him handsome or ugly?
This is mainly directed towards women. I love Ozil, but every time I've been noticing a lot of times when I pull up his name on the internet, there are comments pulled by numerous people either talking about his supposed ugliness or his good-looking nature. This is kind of like a poll, so out of curiosity, what do you think of him? Handsome, or un-attractive? Also, does anyone else find that his skin-tone and hair randomly changes consistently? For instance look at his pictures in Werder Bremen, and then in FIFA 10.
Are there any naturally blonde haired light eyed Spanish people?
You haven't seen any so far? And where are you looking? In Spain there are many light eyed people, blonde hair is a rarer trait however I have cousins who are blonde haired into adulthood with blue/green eyes. I also know people who were blonde in childhood and their hair got progressively darker, like many other European children. Also, I am also related to Spaniards who are redheads. While the media outside of Spain has taken to showing Spaniards as dark haired/eyed and swarthy this is not realistic representation of Spaniards. For example Gerard Pique is a Spanish football player who has blue eyes and does not have a dark complexion. http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/pix/2009/0...
What is the relationship like in Latin American countries between people who are mostly of European descent and those mostly of indigenous or African descent?
Spain and Portugal created a complex legal system of rights depending on one's racial caste, based on how much white vs nonwhite ancestry. From most to least powerful, the Spanish terms.criollo- Europeanmestizo- Euro/Indian mixedmulatto- Euro/African mixedpardo- African/Indian mixedIndio-Indiannegro- African Spain's system got increasingly complex based on mixtures, eventually over 80 categories. For example, criollos could carry weapons and ride horses, which Indians and slaves were both barred from doing. Obviously this system meant white was preferred, and one could "marry up" by marrying a European. To this day there is a color preference in Latin American societies, really obvious when one sees Spanish language TV. One hears expressions like "Soy un negrito a ti?" (Am I a little darkie to you?) meaning "Am I someone you can ignore?" Indio is often an epithet meaning a hick or ignorant. "Muy negro" (very Black) means not just dark skinned but ugly. There were many slave revolts and Indian revolts under colonial rule and ongoing Indian wars, plus maroon communities of runaway slaves that sometimes had tens of thousands of people. When independence finally came to most of Latin America after Napoleon conquered Spain and disrupted Spanish rule, criollos revolted in part for local rule and in part to head off Indian or Black self rule. Criollos continue to hold most political offices and economic power. They pushed for education that promoted assimilation, took away Indian lands even more than Spain did, and Argentina even had an outright genocide policy. The legal caste system is gone, but the social categories remain. National gov'ts have sometimes been more repressive of Indians than Spain was. For example, Bolivia didn't allow Indians to vote until the 1950s, and Guatemala's military carried out outright genocide in the 1980s vs Mayan Indians (with US aid under Reagan, who defended the dictator as a "man of great integrity"). There have been great signs of progress. Three indigenous men became nat'l leaders, Chavez of Venezuela, Morales of Bolivia, and Humala of Peru. Land returned to Indian communities in the past two decades is equal in size to all of Mexico.