Christmas Wishes and Good Books

[0ne0fthew0nders]

Merry Christmas all!!  I hope your holiday was fabulous and full of love! I often realize how lucky I am to have the things that I have...but once again my mom was an angel and got me so many beautiful gifts.  I loved all of them..I got lots of clothes, lots of books (yay!), some movies, an AIDS bracelet, two beautiful spiritiual journals each

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[djdig]

A professor asks her students to answer the statement I am_______ with as many descriptions as they can think of in 60 seconds. She noticed that "students of color usually mentioned their racial or ethnic group such as I am Black, Puerto Rican, Korean American." White students occasionally mention maybe being Irish or Italian but very few mentioned the fact that they were white. She noticed a similar pattern in terms of gender, religion, and sexuality. Women usually mentioned being female while men rarely mentioned being male. Jewish students often identified themselves as Jewish while most Christians did not identify their religious affiliation. And those who were comfortable admitting their sexuality identified themselves as gay, lesbian, or transgender. The professor knew most of her students were heterosexual and yet none identified themselves this way. She found that it appeared that elements of their identities that were shared by the dominant group were so taken for granted by them that it went without comment.Very