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14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 8 – Lesson 14: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I found this lecture to be very insightful as well. I never really thought about the bias white people had for their own family or people until after this lecture. It shocked me to realize and start thinking about how much this nepotism actually occurs. Nepotism has always been right in my face and I just never cared to think about it. I also found the facts of affirmative action extremely interesting. I never knew that mostly white women benefited from it. Knowing that, it’s just another roundabout way of white people maintaining wealth. This lecture changed some of my view points on affirmative action.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 8 – Lesson 14: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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When Richard asked how you think this unequal issue should be fixed, I thought about fixing the school system. To me the school system is the start of the line. To get everyone to the same starting line is a huge task. I can only think of one way to do this, and I know it’s not even close to the right answer, but it would be government control of the schools. It’s pretty much the idea that the one guy had at the end of the lecture. That everyone put their taxes for schools in one big pot controlled by the government so that all schools are proved the same amount of money. This is good because the starting line is equal, but it also brings down some of the advanced schools and thus bring down are nations select intellects. An extremely smart person couldn’t advance as far as he could now, then if he was in an extremely wealth school system. It’s a though issue.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 8 – Lesson 14: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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I really liked then how he showed the Obama quote. That Obama said you must include many more factors in affirmative action other than one simply on race. Because it is true that the issue is very complex and has multiple factors. How you go about saying which factors to include and how strong they should be seems like an extremely difficult task. I congratulate anyone who even attempts this task. I also think that affirmative action doesn’t even come close to balancing out the discriminating effects of nepotism, which is very common and happens in almost every family. This is why I now see it silly for a white male to be complaining about what affirmative action is doing. The affects are so little.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 8 – Lesson 14: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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I got to admit, I have always hated the idea of affirmative action. However, now given some facts from Richards I have a completely different view. I never knew that only ten percent was due to affirmative action in the country. And of that ten percent most of them are women, and most of the women are white. I never heard of these facts and I wonder why. Never have I seen affirmative action as a roundabout way of still helping out white men. Also, never have I thought about nepotism as much as I did today. Thinking back, I got my first job mainly because of who my parents knew. I had no experience or merit but my connections got me the job. So now that I know more of this, it would be ignorant of me to be so against affirmative action, because I have been just as unequally treated.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 7 – Lesson 13: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

I too found the lecture on immigration extremely interesting. Like you I never knew how much influence the business side of America had on our policies and government. I know see the negative effects of such a system on immigrants. Business in America could care less about illegal immigrants, and so you see the result of so many being in our country. I thought it was also very interesting to learn that this issue has been here since the start of the country. I never really put too much thought into it but I am glad that I have now.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 7 – Lesson 13: ... · 2 replies · +1 points

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One thing that through me off was when Richards said, that illegal immigrants pay taxes. I never heard of this before. I thought this was very interesting because illegal immigrants not paying taxes are one of my biggest pet peeves. I wonder what the reasons an illegal immigrant has to do this. I guess it’s just another way to get a job and make money. This was just very interesting to me because I never heard of it before. I really like though when Richards said that there is no real cut and dry answer. To stay away from people who think they got the answers all down. That holds so true to life as well. People that go around thinking they got it all down just end up looking like idiots eventually in their life. I mainly see these kinds of people in a church and in laboratories. This world is too complex and mysterious to think you got it all down. People who think that way are ignorant.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 7 – Lesson 13: ... · 1 reply · +1 points

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Looking back at what I learned in my history class, I know see how slanted it was. Slanted in the sense of making our country, The United States, look like the best thing to happen to this world. Never once did I hear something that my country did wrong. And if there was some historical event that was questionable in the text book, it was ether well explained why our nation did what it did. It was just a pathetic attempted to justify an action with words. But how can you blame our country for slanting our history. Richards was right when he said that no one was to be reminded of all the wrong someone committed. I try as little as possible to remember that this country was taken wrongly and violently. Who in their right mind would want to think of that every day?

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 7 – Lesson 13: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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Every one of Richards lectures gets me to think about something in a new way. This lecture on immigration brought new light on the issue for me. I was one of those people that argued between what democrats or republicans should do to fix it. Then finding out that these two groups really didn’t have much to do or power with issue completely altered my way of thinking. I see it now as an issue between business and government. It looks like today that business is winning and has most of the power. If government had control then there wouldn’t be any illegal immigrants and they would all be paying taxes to the government. Instead business has control and they want illegal’s for their improvement. I guess this part of the reason why our nation is in so much debt.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 7 – Lesson 12: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Hey man I couldn’t agree more with what you are saying. I’ve also recently been struggling with how cruel churches can be to people, especially to LGBT’s. It’s almost like people who go to church forget that they too are sinners and the act of going to church doesn’t make you better than other people. Growing up in the Christian church I have seen tons of this hate. But I can see how the church can be so hateful, because it’s filled with imperfect sinners, like me, who still have the ability to hate. It’s just saddening when an entire church congregation can come to this conclusion of hate and not just an individual person in the church.

14 years ago @ World In Conversation - Week 7 – Lesson 12: ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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I don’t see why a person with morals from the gospel, like me, would have a problem with LGBT getting married. Don’t take my word for it but I do think the government defines marriage as a union between man, women, and state. People who supposedly are Christians define marriage as the union between man women and God, not state. So this battle for marriage was already lost for Christians when state took over. Why in the world would a Christian care if the government changed it even more. A Christian’s main idea of marriage has to do with God and that ideology can be kept with Christians like me. Letting LGBT’s get married doesn’t take away anything from my Christian beliefs or any other Christian’s beliefs. And to say that morally LGBT’s shouldn’t get married is to say that no one should get married because we are all in the same boat and we are all sinners. That’s why I’m glad for Jesus my savior!

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