As a male, what keeps us from asking if the female was pleased has to do with our relationship with them. If we are dating them, I feel like we are more inclined to ask how well it was for her and what we can do to improve. If you are in a relationship with the person, then you are much closer with them and will feel much more comfortable asking how it went. If it was a one night stand and we are either never going to see them again or are never going to have sex with them again, we do not really seem to care how well they enjoyed it, as long as we enjoyed it. And if she enjoyed it, then she will probably want you to slam her again and again. And as a guy that is not in a relationship, you are most likely not going to mind this unless she is a troll. But basically, that is how it seems to go. If you are in a relationship, you want to better all parts of your relationship, including sex. And in a relationship, you are definitely more comfortable with the other person so you probably talk about sex a lot and how you can make it better between the two of you. As for a drunken one night stand, you probably do not care much about the person, and they probably know that, too. After having sex with this person for the first time, you probably do not even remember if you enjoyed it. You will assess how well you did that night based on her attractiveness alone because you probably will not remember if she had any sort of positive personality. If you remember her name or have her number and you can figure out how attractive she was, you can make your next move. If she is unattractive, you delete her number and avoid contact with her. If she is attractive, you will try to contact her and hang out with her again whilst trying to discover what sort of personality she entails. Now, if she has a terrible personality, you will sleep with her x number of times more based on her attractiveness. If she has a great personality and she seems to like you, you name her Slam Piece Number One. This could lead to a number of different paths, especially when you start to acquire more slam pieces. And you probably do not care about if any of them are pleased or not after sex because if they keep coming back to you, they probably are. Being in a relationship with a girl is in fact very different than having a girl or two or three as slam pieces. Also, females are all attractive in their own way and every guy is attracted to different girls; however, some girls just have the qualities to attract every guy.

I would most definitely feel more sympathy for Tammy if she was a Native American. However, I have no idea why a Native American would prefer to live in a trailer in the middle of nowhere with no clothes or car or anything at all. I feel like a Native American would much rather live with their tribe in their own culture, even if it is on a reservation. Although, Native Americans who live on a reservation probably have even less money than Tammy, or no money at all for that matter, they probably still enjoy their life more than Tammy does. The majority of Native Americans probably know how their life is going to turn out when they are young, and they are perfectly fine and happy with that. They have a great amount of people they love and people who love them all close by. Tammy does not really have that at all, even though she is one of twenty-two children. She does not have a husband, and her two kids do not seem to appreciate what she does with them as much as they should. However, she should keep up with her appearance a little better. She looks entirely homeless, but her children do not actually look that much better. Tammy’s race would not normally make me feel any more or less sympathy for her, whether she was African American, Asian, Hispanic, or Middle Eastern. However, I feel like being asked if I would have more sympathy for her if she was Native American is a different sort of question. And I do not really think it was a question that made sense to ask. Again, I cannot really see Native Americans wanting to try to pursue a life outside their reservation by moving from their loving families to a trailer surrounded by nobody in the middle of nowhere. If a Native American had some sort of connection to an adequate job they could thrive off of, then that is a different story. If Tammy was African American, Asian, Hispanic, or Middle Eastern, my sympathy would be the same as it is for her as a white person because we are all born into the same world. However, Native Americans are sort of born into a different world. They are born into a simpler world with more boundaries that I feel like they would prefer over a world below the poverty line with no great sense of family and love. Even though, the large majority of Native Americans are below the poverty line, and if they were born into a family on a reservation, they definitely would be, but they would have a life filled with love that they probably all enjoy living. They are not being discriminated against on their reservation, and they have what they need to survive.

If I was in a position of power, I would always help the United States of America before anyone else. If there are people struggling in the United States, then they should receive the help before other countries. I am not entirely confident that this would keep the world afloat because we do give money to many other countries keeping them alive. I do not know if we donate it or lend it to other countries, but nobody seems to really care. We’re in so much debt that it does not really matter anymore. We’re going to fall off some cliff one day, and all the people in poverty in the United States will die or something. Only the wealthy people will be able to survive in this country if the rate of our debt continues to increase at this alarming rate. However, the example given in this video is not a good one for me. Unfortunately, I do not really care about the Native Americans. Obviously, I am educated in the history regarding them, but I just have no sentimental feeling toward them. I actually feel like we should not help them at all. If they cannot help themselves, then that is their fault. The world is changing, and I am not sure if they are. I actually do not really care about anyone who is unable to make a living for themselves. People come from other countries because they know they can do something for themselves in America. Why can the impoverished Americans not realize this? Sure, some money can be spent to help them get schooling, but that is all I would be willing to give. We should spend our money to improve the overall quality of life. As a nation, we spend our money on different things than what state governments and city governments spend their money on. What is that exactly? We should not hand out government subsidies and other things that are useless wastes of money. Great companies will find their own ways to thrive. Bad companies will not. A company is not good because it has been around for a long time. It has been around for a long time because it is good. And if that company is unable to make it another ten, fifty, or hundred years, then I guess it just is not that good anymore. But there will be new companies to replace it. New companies that understand the mistakes of the old that will last without any help from the government. To conclude, I do not think we should hand out money to anyone. We should not hand out money to other countries, and we should not hand out money to our own people. But if we are going to spend money on anything, it should be to improve the quality of American life.

Inequality vs unfairness is a touchy subject, because it is a very thin line between racial arguments and unfairness as a whole. What exactly is unfairness. I believe it is the favoring of one group over another to such a degree that one group is so overshadowed that they do not stand a chance because of the oppression. It is interesting though because when we oppressed racial groups, we were one being unfair. However, when we try to make up for our deeds, and then favor this once oppressed group so much becomes now unfair to the once in powered group. This is why there is such an outcry against programs such as affirmative action and racial favoring programs. How do we make up for our sins of the past. We have to understand that it can be very difficult to actually do such a thing, because by favoring one group, one will always be oppressed.
Unfairness and equality to me fall in a very close category. I think unfairness is sometimes unintentional while inequality is intentional. However, one falls into the other and when one is present, the other appears as well. To do away with one we have to do away with both and right now this is no small feat. We need to start communicating and talking about the touchy subjects that we shun because they may be awkward or uncomfortable. Until we do this, both of these two things will continue to be present in our society. WE need to start clean. I know we do owe something to the oppressed, but starting clean is the only way to please all groups and therefore, we may not ever be able to fix the damage we have done. We can though remember and learn from our past to build a better, stronger country that everyone is equal in. This is possible and we are getting closer to achieving such a peace, but more effort needs to be put forth by all groups.
So is inequality and unfairness the same. Yes and no. They both occur together but are slightly different as described above. They both are harmful to our society as a whole and even though inequality may always exist, we are not minimizing it as much as we can. More effort needs to be put forth by our government to action and create programs to benefit everyone. This is possible and needs to be done to become a country of unity and one piece. Inequality can be minimized if we try and put more effort in. then we can see unfairness diminish and more happy countrymen. This is the dream and we are so close to achieving this goal. That people do not know this is a tragedy.

I believe that America should continue to give aid, especially after realizing how small a percent of our GDP goes to foreign aid in comparison to some other countries. However, I feel as though much of our foreign aid is going to the wrong countries and for the wrong reasons. Also, I feel as though many of the government subsidies to various groups of people in the United States are a waste of our money, especially the one that we talked about in class that gives money to rice farmers so that they can export rice to Haiti to sell for cheaper than the Haitian rice farmers. This hinders the profitability of rice farming in Haiti, and rice farming is all many Haitians have to survive. We should shut down many of the rice farms in America so that we are no longer granting them government subsidies. This will also help out the people and economy of Haiti a great amount. Even though this will put many American farmers out of work, it will begin to help the world economy a great amount.
If we discontinue foreign aid, many countries will fall apart. Even though we give a smaller percent of our GDP to countries for foreign aid, we still give the most foreign aid to other countries because our GDP is so much higher than most other countries in the world. This is a lot of money that we give out to just immediately stop giving. I do not really support foreign aid because I love America, but the fact that some other countries survive on our aid alone makes me love America that much more. I guess that means it is alright.
Continuing to give out foreign aid is our only true option. The world economy is barely afloat today. Many European countries are falling apart now, and I am not sure how much aid we give to European countries or if we give any at all, but our aid is important to the governments and economies of many important countries. It is also extremely important to the liveliness of third world countries. If some of these countries did not receive our aid, the people, the companies, and the society of these countries will most likely die. Stopping foreign aid should not even be a question, and I do not think it is. However, this is a sociology class, and it is something very important to think about.
Stopping all foreign aid and giving out more foreign aid are both things that we should not really do as a country. These actions should be evaluated and attacked in the right ways so that we can help the world economy thrive for centuries to come.

Dying is a very difficult topic to talk about and especially to think about. There is not one person that is truly not afraid to die. We know nothing about life after death. The tests that Sam told us that scientists have been running are not really enough to make an assumption. Only ten percent of the people tested were able to remember anything that happened when they were “dead.” I do not really understand how you can remember anything when you are dead because your brain is not functioning. The fact that only ten percent of people remember anything makes me think as though they are just dreaming. But are we also currently dreaming? I have listened to many podcasts and watched numerous documentaries on DMT, which is a natural drug that is found in all living things, including us. It is released every time we go to bed at night, and a ton of it is released when we die. This makes me believe that we just enter a dream that becomes extremely vivid, much like the life we live now. When you take DMT as a drug while you are not sleeping, it sends you on a five to ten minute trip that can feel like a lifetime or more than a lifetime. And many people believe that that experience is the afterlife, and that it is just a continuous cycle. Many also believe that we are also supposed to be taking this drug all the time. It is a natural hallucinogen that does not harm the body in anyway, but it makes us feel like we live a whole other life in ten minutes. I personally have no opinion on that, but it is quite an interesting idea. Why is this drug that we already have inside of us the most illegal drug in the world? I feel like there is something we do not know. However, all this being said, I am still afraid of death. But learning what I have in just the past few weeks has caused me to become much less afraid. If we do not learn more about what is actually going to happen when we pass away, if anything at all, then maybe DMT is something to think about. Everyone could be on DMT right now in another life, but living in this one to maybe learn something essential that we can apply in our actual life. Who knows? I cannot even begin to think of taking DMT while already on DMT. It is too much to really think about. I feel as though if DMT was not so illegal, then scientists would be able to conduct tests on the drug and discover if there is a relation between the drug and the afterlife.

I am Catholic so I believe that God exists; however, I do not really believe in creationism. I am more of a person who believes in theistic evolution. I do believe that God is there, but I feel as though he just set things in motion, and then nature took its turn in developing the universe. Knowing this about myself, it is still extremely difficult to know how I would react to discovering that there is no God. I feel like my biggest worry would be that there is no Heaven or place to go when we die. Death is something that is incredibly tough to think about. And although I am not super religious (I only actually go to church on Christmas and Easter), I still believe in my religion for the most part and that there is a heaven to go to after we live our lives. However, I feel as though Hell is a place that was created by humans to scare people into doing good things. Purgatory I do not really have an opinion on. I cannot say that I believe in that either. So how would I react? I would be worried. I am assuming that no God means a God of any religion. This means that there would be mass riots and destruction of all things, especially churches and holy places. The world would turn into an enormously frightening place for quite a long time. And I would be worried for it. People who spend their entire lives devoted to their religion and God will have nothing to show for it after they die, and this information will kill them inside. There might be mass suicides. I do not think so much of my religion because people will want to fully live out their lives knowing that there is probably no Heaven if there is no God. But this is something that is interesting to think about. Knowing that there is no Heaven, will that make a person want to do more during the life they are living? Dying without leaving some sort of trace of yourself in the world will have to hit many people especially hard knowing that there is no Heaven to go to afterwards. This may be a good thing for many people then. They may gain the mindset that they have to wake up every day and do something important for themselves and others. I cannot say if knowing there is no God would change my life dramatically. I guess it would because it would definitely change the world dramatically. The very thing that has caused the majority of all wars may just disappear overnight. That would definitely change the world, but how?

It was extremely exciting to begin to uncover the culture of an Iranian person in class last week. It is not really at all what I expected. I expected to see a place that was more impoverished and war-torn than I did. When I think of the Middle East, I just think of tan deserts and broken buildings with militaries covering the streets. I did not expect anything that would be even remotely similar to America, but that is indeed what I was beginning to see. And that is something that is very cool. Talking to our Iranian friend helped me realize this even more. He was shocked by what our opinions of Iran and the Middle East were which, in turn, shocked me, because I thought my opinions were at least remotely correct. But they were not. Iranians go out every day and do the same daily and weekly and monthly activities that we do, for the most part. They have to. And that is just not something that I can say that I expected. I never thought of the Middle East as just another normal area where people are living their lives. I thought of it as a place where people are struggling with street bombings and military characters all throughout the towns and cities. However, even though, I am beginning to discover that this is not really what Iran is like, I do not know that I am really motivated to go out to Iran and live life there for a while. Sure, it would be cool to say you did something like that. I am sure that it would create many great stories that many people would not expect to hear after a trip to the Middle East, but I do not see a real reason to go. Especially as someone who is not going to be doing any sort of research or journalism on the true everyday lives of Iranians. Our Iranian friend did a great job of opening my eyes up to the facts that I did not know about that Middle East, and I feel as though that is something great in itself. He definitely has a passion for spreading knowledge about things he is passionate about. I am thankful to have this new found knowledge of Iran. This perspective that I did not have before and did not ever imagine being real. That is something truly great. But I do not think I will ever really be inspired to go to Iran. It is just not a place I really desire going. Having the knowledge that it is a different place than I thought it was is important to me, and I am glad that I now have it; but I am happy in America, and I think that I will stay here.

If I were to somehow discover that my child was gay before he discovered it himself, I would most definitely not tell him. I think it would be important for my child to explore this idea without the help of anyone else. However, if I know for a fact that he is gay, and he never comes out to tell me, then I will feel like I am doing something to make him afraid of telling me. I would want him to live in a household that would feel comfortable for him to come out in. If he was taking longer than I think he should to come out, then I would definitely do my part to make him feel more comfortable and maybe hint towards the fact that I suspect that he might be gay, but I would not directly tell him that I know. When I do have a kid, though, I will never outright assume that he is gay. It will probably take a while for me to realize it because it is not something that I would really be expecting. At a young age especially, boys may enjoy partaking in activities that girls would normally do, and girls may enjoy partaking in activities that boys would normally do. Children have to explore what they like to do and what makes them who they are. I don’t really have any clue as to when a child may find out that he likes the same sex in a more physical way. I don’t think that I really knew what being gay was until I was a little bit older. This would give me another reason not to tell my kid that he was a gay if I knew a little earlier on. I feel like if I discovered that my kid was gay at an early age, it would be weird to tell him that because he may not really know what that means quite yet. I’m also not really sure if a parent can know that their child is gay without them coming out. They may be able to suspect that their child is gay, but I think that is about it. And if a parent does suspect that their child is gay, they should probably make the home more comfortable and open for the child, if it is not already like that. If I ever suspected that my child is gay, I would definitely not force them to partake in activities that they are not interested in, especially if they are more masculine activities dealing with the wilderness or sports. However, I’m sure a lot of gay people like another man who is in good shape and whatnot so maybe I’d actually be helping him out a bit.

How a person acts and conducts themselves in everyday life is far more important than the color of their skin. There are various stereotypes for each race that are in all of our heads, and many people will fit their own stereotypes. For example, black people being loud and good at basketball or Asians being good at math and poor drivers. But this definitely does not mean that all people fit these stereotypes. A person cannot judge a person based off the color of their skin even though it is done every day. Once you see how a person lives their day to day life is when you can judge them and decide whether or not they fit any positive or negative stereotypes related to their race. What also defines a person is their culture and how they participate in it. A white person can live in a black area and develop a more stereotypically black culture that they learn and live out more than a black person might. And a black person can live in a white area and develop a more stereotypically white culture that they learn and live out more than a black person might. This goes for any race. Race does not always equal what a person’s identity might be. If a darker person develops vitiligo, which is a disorder that causes a person to lose the pigmentation in their skin, and appears white, it definitely does not mean that they are. What matters is how they were brought up and how they currently act. What a person is wearing is also important. When a person puts on any sort of clothing they are expressing themselves. They express who they are and how they were raised in the world. They do not necessarily express whether they are a person who is positive or negative, but they do express what they know to be true about the world. Another thing to think about is biracial people. A person can have a black dad and white mom, but what do they classify themselves as? What race do they appear to be to other people? Usually darker complexions take over visibly, but that does not mean that the person is going to act like a stereotypical person of whatever darker complexion they are. They could be raised in one culture or another. If they live in a black neighborhood and have black friends who act like stereotypical black people, then they are probably going to act that way themselves. If they live in a white neighborhood and have white friends who act like stereotypical white people, then they are probably going to act that way. How a person should be perceived is based on how they were raised and act today. And that is what matters.