circlesky88
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Should we start another thread for religious discussion?
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I think that's probably true, but I don't remember ever hearing that it was any kind of requirement for group membership.
Possibly although it's so inextricably intertwined with current politics that expecting there to be no spillover seems optimistic.
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My first experience with divisions among Latinos was when I moved to in California, and workers in our distribution center were divided into Mexicans and Salvadorans who hated each other. They simply couldn’t or wouldn’t work with each other. They had sort of self-selected so the Mexicans worked in shipping and picking orders while the Salvadorans had congregated in packaging. There was a Nicaraguan woman in customer service who strongly felt she was above both of them.
Yes. Religion as the main conversation is definitely not why I come to this thread.
circlesky88
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Spillover I understand but not pages and pages of theolocigal discussion on a FAFO thread.
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About 20 years ago I participated in a study of a chicken processing plant in North Carolina that employed almost solely Guatemalans...but the management knew enough to hire Mexicans to be the managers and Puerto Ricans to manage the Mexicans (partially because those from the PR were perfectly bilingual and could, in turn, most easily communicate with the English-Only speaking higher ups). I also noted during that study that in the local soccer league (and this was 20 years ago when most were new to the US) tended to be divided up by nationality or even former hometown. Lots of the rivalries and conflict tended to surface in those contests on Saturday and Sunday but also old animosities were brought back up.
I remember even longer ago...say, the late 1980s, in Chapel Hill. I was tending bar around town in those days and was known as a guy who could speak Spanish (or at least in those days I thought that I could -- thankfully it has improved since). A CH Policeman that I knew came by where I worked to ask me some questions about a fight that had broken out in, of all places, La Terraza, one night when a Latin American music band had played. The bartenders there said that all seemed fine and the all of a sudden all hell broke loose...I asked around among some of the dishwashers that I knew (many from Mexico and Central America) and was told that some guys had entered the bar and soon realized that some of their old enemies -- from their youth back home -- were there. So the fight didn't really break out "all of a sudden" but had actually started years before.
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The apostle Paul used the division between the Pharisees (who believed in resurrection) and the Sadducees (who did not) to advantage when brought before the Sanhedrin for inquisition. Like Christianity, Judaism is not homogenous.
In my experience, Reform Jews resemble mainline Protestants to the extent that both groups subscribe to a muted post-millenialism: the messiah arrives only after we work to make a suitable world for him. This post-millenialism is muted because Reform Jews and the 27 remaining mainline Protestants don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about messianism. The idea has been thoroughly secularized into the basic maxim to do good.
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IMO trying to manage where conversations go amongst diverse groups of people is like herding cats...probably just easier to take the paddles in and just go with whatever.
I appreciate and invite both discussions but the FAFO thread is lost and highjacked (unintentionally). I’d hope to get back on topic or start a new thread.
If you guys hadn't been fucking around so much, you wouldn't have had to find out.
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Seriously, I thought we had one, but i could be remembering the old boards.
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I feel bad for the kid, not so much for the Trump voting mother.
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Arkansas to appeal Individual Assistance denial for March 14 storms
Following the round of severe weather and tornadoes that the state of Arkansas was subjected to, Governor Sanders applied for Individual Assistance (IA) through
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Following the round of severe weather and tornadoes that the state of Arkansas was subjected to, Governor Sanders applied for Individual Assistance (IA) through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
On April 11, the State of Arkansas was notified that their request was denied. Their request for Public Assistance (PA), however, is still being processed.
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I started a new one at "Religion in the USA".
Sounds like Musk's efforts are having the desired effects.Arkansas to appeal Individual Assistance denial for March 14 storms
Following the round of severe weather and tornadoes that the state of Arkansas was subjected to, Governor Sanders applied for Individual Assistance (IA) through
Following the round of severe weather and tornadoes that the state of Arkansas was subjected to, Governor Sanders applied for Individual Assistance (IA) through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
On April 11, the State of Arkansas was notified that their request was denied. Their request for Public Assistance (PA), however, is still being processed.
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4thgenheel
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lol'ing at the nica woman.
heard lots of bad things about nicaraguans from ticos when i lived in costa rica.
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That's a tough one.
There's documented studies about isolation's negative affects.
It's also commendable that they adopted a child with so many challenges.
But she should have known trump doesn't give a fuck. He made fun of a reporter that had challenges.