Modernization's Challenge to Traditional Values: Who's Afraid of Ronald McDonald?
http://www.deu.edu.tr/userweb/ceyhan.aldemir/dosyalar/inglehart,%202001.pdf
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Think Progress » Texas lawmaker: Asians should change their names to make them ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’
Think Progress » Texas lawmaker: Asians should change their names to make them ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’
“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.
The Happiest Places In The World - Forbes.com
The Happiest Places In The World - Forbes.com
Psychologists at the University of Leicester in Britain recently produced the world's first map of happiness. Using data from the emerging science of happiness, they created a color-coded atlas of bliss, a topography of the human spirit, from Swaziland to Singapore. Happiness, it turns out, is like oil. Some countries are awash in it; others are bone dry.
Area husband pretends to give a shit -- comic insight in competition with sociological insight
Area husband pretends to give a shit
After six years of marriage, Woodman said he feels that his willingness to pretend to give a shit about what his wife says is vital to the health of their relationship.
"If I didn't sit there in total silence, staring off into the distance but occasionally grunting out an 'Oh yeah?' or a "No kidding,' Jena would probably start to think we have a communication problem," said Woodman. "Sure, I could just walk out of the room when she starts barking out her meaningless ramblings, but that would be equivalent to just coming right out and saying that she's boring me."
"I pretend to give a shit because I care," Woodman added.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided.
Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere
Adults under 30 are essentially evenly divided: 37% prefer capitalism, 33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Thirty-somethings are a bit more supportive of the free-enterprise approach with 49% for capitalism and 26% for socialism. Adults over 40 strongly favor capitalism, and just 13% of those older Americans believe socialism is better.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Brenda Laurel on making games for girls | Video on TED.com
Brenda Laurel on making games for girls | Video on TED.com
A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world of girls (and shares amazing interviews and photos) to create a game that girls would love.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Census racial classification
Census 2000 Briefs and Special Reports Series
How are the race categories used in Census 2000 defined?
“White” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples
of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who
indicated their race or races as “White” or wrote in entries such as
Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.
“Black or African American” refers to people having origins in any of the
Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicated their race
or races as “Black, African Am., or Negro,” or wrote in entries such as
African American, Afro American, Nigerian, or Haitian.
“American Indian and Alaska Native” refers to people having origins in
any of the original peoples of North and South America (including
Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment.
It includes people who indicated their race or races by marking
this category or writing in their principal or enrolled tribe, such as
Rosebud Sioux, Chippewa, or Navajo.
“Asian” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of
the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. It includes
people who indicated their race or races as “Asian Indian,” “Chinese,”
“Filipino,” “Korean,” “Japanese,” “Vietnamese,” or “Other Asian,” or wrote
in entries such as Burmese, Hmong, Pakistani, or Thai.
“Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander” refers to people having
origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or
other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicated their race or
races as “Native Hawaiian,” “Guamanian or Chamorro,” “Samoan,” or
“Other Pacific Islander,” or wrote in entries such as Tahitian, Mariana
Islander, or Chuukese.
“Some other race” was included in Census 2000 for respondents
who were unable to identify with the five Office of Management and
Budget race categories. Respondents who provided write-in entries
such as Moroccan, South African, Belizean, or a Hispanic origin (for
example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) are included in the Some
other race category.
How are the race categories used in Census 2000 defined?
“White” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples
of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. It includes people who
indicated their race or races as “White” or wrote in entries such as
Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Near Easterner, Arab, or Polish.
“Black or African American” refers to people having origins in any of the
Black racial groups of Africa. It includes people who indicated their race
or races as “Black, African Am., or Negro,” or wrote in entries such as
African American, Afro American, Nigerian, or Haitian.
“American Indian and Alaska Native” refers to people having origins in
any of the original peoples of North and South America (including
Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment.
It includes people who indicated their race or races by marking
this category or writing in their principal or enrolled tribe, such as
Rosebud Sioux, Chippewa, or Navajo.
“Asian” refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of
the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent. It includes
people who indicated their race or races as “Asian Indian,” “Chinese,”
“Filipino,” “Korean,” “Japanese,” “Vietnamese,” or “Other Asian,” or wrote
in entries such as Burmese, Hmong, Pakistani, or Thai.
“Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander” refers to people having
origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or
other Pacific Islands. It includes people who indicated their race or
races as “Native Hawaiian,” “Guamanian or Chamorro,” “Samoan,” or
“Other Pacific Islander,” or wrote in entries such as Tahitian, Mariana
Islander, or Chuukese.
“Some other race” was included in Census 2000 for respondents
who were unable to identify with the five Office of Management and
Budget race categories. Respondents who provided write-in entries
such as Moroccan, South African, Belizean, or a Hispanic origin (for
example, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Cuban) are included in the Some
other race category.
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court decided that Bhagat Singh Thind, who was a high caste Punjabi Sikh, settled in Oregon, could not be a naturalized citizen of the United States, despite the fact that anthropologists had defined the people in India as belonging to the Caucasian race. The ruling followed a decision in Takao Ozawa v. United States, where the same court had ruled that a light-skinned native of Japan could not be counted as "white", because "white" meant "Caucasian". In Bhagat Singh Thind, the court seemed to contradict itself, ruling that Thind was not a "white person" as used in "common speech, to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man."
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204
Case citation
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(1923), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court
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decided that Bhagat Singh Thind
Bhagat Singh Thind
Bhagat Singh Thind, PhD, was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on "spiritual science" who was involved in an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain United States nationality law....
, who was a high caste
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Punjabi
Punjabi people
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Sikh
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, settled in Oregon
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, could not be a naturalized
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citizen of the United States
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, despite the fact that anthropologists
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had defined the people in India as belonging to the Caucasian race
Caucasian race
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. The ruling followed a decision in Takao Ozawa v. United States
Takao Ozawa v. United States
Takao Ozawa v. United States Case citation was a case in which the United States Supreme Court found Takao Ozawa, a Japanese man, ineligible for naturalization....
, where the same court had ruled that a light-skinned native of Japan
Japan
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could not be counted as "white", because "white" meant "Caucasian". In Bhagat Singh Thind, the court seemed to contradict itself, ruling that Thind was not a "white person" as used in "common speech, to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man." Using the "understanding of the common man" argument, it was therefore decided that Congress never intended for Indians to be able to naturalize.
Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965 | Chapter 10: U.S. vs. Bhagat Singh Thind
Echoes of Freedom: South Asian Pioneers in California, 1899-1965 | Chapter 10: U.S. vs. Bhagat Singh Thind
Bhagat Singh Thind, a native of Punjab, immigrated to America in 1913. Working in an Oregon lumber mill he paid his way through University of California, Berkeley and enlisted in the United States Army in 1917, when the United States entered World War I. He was honorably discharged in 1918. In 1920 he applied for citizenship and was approved by the U.S. District Court. The Bureau of Naturalization appealed the case, which made its way to the Supreme Court. Thind's attorneys expected a favorable decision since the year before in the Ozawa ruling the same Court had declared Caucasians eligible for citizenship and Thind, as most North Indians, was clearly Caucasian.
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