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Well, Polio gets brought up a lot, but honestly it is great odds compared to a ton of diseases that can cause all sorts of nasty long term effects. Mumps can cause deafness, pertussis can cause pneumonia (early childhood pneumonia is linked to COPD later in life), encephalopathy, and death. Last year we hit a new record for childhood flu deaths of 172 (this is hyperbole).
I am not telling people what to do, but as a nurse, get your children vaccinated. Don't be lazy and live in a fucking echo chamber. If you distrust vaccines, do the research. If that doesn't convince you, talk to someone who experiences what happens when you don't vaccinate.
Also: the rate of autism diagnosis increased for two reasons: people have more access to medical professionals to make these diagnosis (prior to that many people with possible autism went undiagnosed). Two, professionals are more apt to correctly diagnose these issues with more experience. People forget we used to chain mental health patients up in asylums not that long ago. Humanity always needs a scapegoat.
Also read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down it really will open your eyes to how different cultures view diseases and the impact parents have on their children's health outcomes. No, don't blame the parents after reading it.
A reply to the down-votes you are getting for stating a fact:
It is distressing in particular that many people refuse to acknowledge that over 50% of murders in the US are committed by the black minority (around 13%), as if it were some kind of embarrassing chronic racial failing instead of a consequence of lack of education and the breakdown of the family dynamic - and other issues. On a related note, how ironic is it that black Americans were growing richer as a group from the 1930's until momentum slowed dramatically in the 1960's - after the civil rights era? (Am reading black scholar Thomas Sowell's book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals")
We cannot fix the problem by pretending that our reality is only racist hate-speak. This willful ignorance I find rather terrifying because it is being manifested with such vehement, unreasoning anger.
I spent this last January in the Dominican Republic which is largely black and mixed race. Was great to be around black people who felt free to just be people and without all the silent undercurrents of fear, resentment and blame that we have in the states. The Dominicans I met live in the now, take you at face value, and were just wonderful people: cheerful, kind, hugely family oriented and as a group, amazingly good looking. But they are incredibly poor. I really don't know how they do it; they were inspiring.
Edit: Excellent series of essays on origins and ramifications of southern and northern, black and white cultures, plus more:Black Rednecks and White Liberals.
There's actually a decent amount of Academia dedicated to figuring out how the Irish transitioned from identifiable ethnic minority to other white people. The most famous example is about how the Irish came to become oppressors, which is oF cOuRsE synonymous with white.
But the most profound way in which they became what was... they assimilated.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up. Shouldn't HR be telling your boss to apologize to you? You merely pointed out the situation. Your boss is in the wrong.
You're probably not going to get away from the burden she is placing on you. I guess you could write that you want to move past this situation and that it is a moment for everyone [meaning her] to be their best selves. And then maybe ask what she thinks about reading Ijeoma Oluo's book or Ibram X. Kendi's book together as a team book club? Make sure to say it can't happen without her leadership or vision or whatever quality she wants the most and ask if she thinks everyone on the team can use toward as their DEI goals for the year?
You may want to check out the non-fiction book, When The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down (https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Catches-You-Fall-Down/dp/0374533407)
Story of a Hmong family's interactions with the American healthcare system. (It's more compelling than that might sound...) I think it was a bestseller when it was published ~20 years ago.
I'm a white woman, so I may be wrong here, but I don't think it's as simple to style black hair. I can easily switch my hairstyle - even if I have loads of product in my hair I can jump in the shower before a show and throw it into a braid or pony so it's out of the way. I also wash my hair nightly so it regularly gets redone.
From what I understand about black hair, it takes much longer to style and stays set for longer. It's less likely she did her hair specifically for the ballet (especially if she also got last minute tickets). Assuming that the hair style was a conscious, specific choice for the ballet, and that she could've styled it differently or fixed it in the spur of the moment is a little racially insensitive. And because there's a *lot* of racial issues surrounding hair, it is a race issue even if you would've said something similar to a white women.
I know that it wasn't your intent, but the impact was racist. And there's not really anything you can do to fix the past, know better, do better.
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ETA: I highly recommend So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo. From a book standpoint, it's really well written and such, it's just a good book. But it's also brilliant and has many, many lightbulb moments. It puts everyday racism in the context of history and systematic oppression and is really helpful in getting a better understanding of some seemingly minor interactions.
Dude. I'm trying to help you and provide some information but you seem really dug into the "I'm not a racist" knee-jerk defensiveness. I might suggest a couple of books if you really care about learning about this stuff. These should get you started.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Talk-About-Race/dp/1580056776
https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/B07D6XQQRY
Since you set it up, I highly recommend the book "Why are the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?"
>Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash. As The Redneck Manifesto boldly points out and brilliantly demonstrates, America's dirty little secret isn't racism but classism. While pouncing incessantly on racial themes, most major media are silent about America's widening class rifts, a problem that negatively affects more people of all colors than does racism. With an unmatched ability for rubbing salt in cultural wounds, Jim Goad deftly dismantles most popular American notions about race and culture and takes a sledgehammer to our delicate glass-blown popular conceptions of government, religion, media, and history.
Buy and read this book. Then read your posts here again and you'll understand what people are getting at. It's not that people don't want you to do your best to be an ally. It's that you're kind of coming into a black space to tell black people about how not-racist you are. It's good that you're speaking out against racism, but coming to the black section of reddit is kind of preaching to the choir. Reddit in general has a racism problem, so it's best to spread these types of messages in those spaces.
Even just reading the first few chapters will give you an idea of what people here are saying.
Read the book. It’s white supremacy with nicer shoes and darker skin.
One book that really resonated with me and my own experiences was Julia Serano's <em>Whipping Girl.</em> There's a lot of stuff that critiques feminism and talks about how masculinity and femininity are treated in society, but for you the most interesting parts will probably be her personal anecdotes. The most important thing you can take away from it is that everyone has a radically different experience.
When did your character realize they were transgender? When and how did they transition? How supportive or hostile was their environment, and how did they feel about themselves? Keep in mind that being transgender affects so many parts of your life, but in the end it is only one part of you. Trans people are people, just like everyone else, and we come in all different types and flavors. We can be introverts or extroverts, kind or cruel, insightful or oblivious, artists or accountants, saints or sinners. Figure out who your character is, who the playwright has written her as and how you are interpreting her, and then figure out how being a transwoman has shaped and influenced her. And after you've done that, I would go to your trans friends and ask if your interpretation has any unrealistic or offensive stereotypes. I can't imagine them being upset if you're sincere and coming from a place of respect. And if you don't feel comfortable, you can always ask reddit.
shemale...
I can call myself that... I dunno if you should...
Read Whipping Girl and give us an essay with your thoughts first.
The Irish weren't always considered white. I haven't read the whole thing, but this book, How the Irish Became White, is pretty interesting.
I can't speak for BBES, but respectful allies are usually welcome.
If you want learn more than you'll get out of a Reddit thread, I find So You Want to Talk About Race? is a great primer for people who want to understand, and are looking for a place to start.
Great question! I haven't seen it come up as an answer yet, so I hope I'm providing new information here.
There is indeed a peculiar tribe in the Amazon that is known for its almost total lack of rituals or traditions.
This is the only source I could find real quick on the Pirahas and burials.
With that said, I'll give my two-cents on them and hope that someone here can back me up.
Throughout the 70s and 80s, a Christian missionary was assigned to the Pirahas to (1) convert them to Christianity, and (2) learn their language and culture.
He wasn't successful with (1) BECAUSE of (2). During his time with the Pirahas, he came to the conclusion that they are a people without rituals, gods, myths, and therefore could not be converted.
I'd highly recommend his book if you're looking for something about peoples with "non-cultures." It has the perfect mix of linguistics, anthropology and personal accounts of his time with the Pirahas.
Read his fantastic book: Black Rednecks & White Liberals.
How many 500+reviewed books on Amazon do you see which have a full FIVE STAR RATING?!
After those ~250 pages, his world is your oyster.
One of my favorite positions of Dr. Sowell's is his lengthy discussion on how "minimum wage increase" theories predominantly affect minorities (particularly blacks) most. In a bad way.
ref: Dr. Thomas Sowell is black — inb4 "racist"
I know this is a liberal subreddit, but Thomas Sowell has a great book about this exact topic. Black Rednecks and White Liberals It's an easy read and I think he does a great job breaking down how classism has evolved in America over the last 100 years or so.
I'm not trying to trash rural culture, I do believe we might have different conceptions of what redneck culture is. In my case I'm going off this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Liberals-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031436
Don't Sleep There are Snakes by Daniel Everett
Dr. Everett went to the Amazon jungle in the 1970's to learn the language of the Piraha people in order to put their language into writing and then translate the Bible into that language. He eventually got his PhD in linguistics.
The Piraha people have so sense of time - no past or future. They only use "within our senses" or "not within our senses". If something is not within their sight or sound or smell, it doesn't exist for all intents and purposes.
Dr. Everett may be a good place to find more information for your research.
edit: spelling
https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/publications/se/6206/620204.html
I'm just basically spamming this today, aren't I... Sigh
https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Became-White-Routledge-Classics/dp/0415963095
I'm actually just tired of this conversation with people. Every single person has an opinion about race and God damn near no one has ever read about it.
Gender doesn't exist, but sex does. Sex is not a social construct. One could argue that race is a social construct, see "how the Irish became white".
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rednecks-Liberals-Thomas-Sowell/dp/1594031436
sowell's thesis is that black american culture has a lot in common with white redneck culture, in ways that keep both groups from easily joining the elite white institutions.
Yes, if I remember correctly, this is noticeable in the Pirahã community, which you can read about through Daniel Everett's research. The following book is a good entry point, but you'll have to search around for the bit where he discusses how the community treats children as independent adults, with little to no protective behaviour.
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386120
>There is also a tendency among the wealthy or "successful" in a minority community to believe they got their position on their merit (where merit has been decided by the shapers of the culture, in this case white people). This ignores the fact that to maintain their self-perception of superiority they will align themselves with the "dominant" forces against those they seem lesser.
True. See also: How the Irish Became White
>A doctor consistently performing hysterectomies on captive patients that are (illegitimately imo, but that's another discussion) wards of the state is terroristic
It's some Nazi-level shit
That could be true but I have to say I can't judge it. I mean I'm from Germany and I have to say, bit ashamed of it, that I was long time not interested in politics and just started end of last year to inform me - I mean last year I didn't even know what Karen, besides of course being a name, means^^
True and she even showed some good beginners books - I bought this one
https://www.amazon.de/You-Want-Talk-About-Race/dp/1580056776
My english is not bad but I liked that this wording is not too complicated - I'm working in stem field and some speeches of someone with Master in Politics, social work, gender mainstream and so on are pretty hard to understand if you don't know the vocabulary. Does that make sense?^^
Yeah that idea was so stupid and all those hatred "memes" with her looking like an old nazi propaganda. Disgusting. She is beautiful.
EDIT: But I have to say, that poem I needed to hear twice^^
EDIT2: Please dont get me wrong but I saw a lot of youtubers collecting for black trans. Do they need more help than white, asian or native american trans? I just want to understand^^
> wave of guilt and shame (all directed inwardly
> recommendations of useful sources, blogs, books, articles, etc. that maybe helped them come to terms with their identities
A book I found super useful to reassure me that internalised guilt and shame were mainstream, what the origins and causes were, etc, was: Julia Serano "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity", second edition, 2016.
Hope this might be useful for you!
I'm reading this. I feel like it's the ultimate self-help book. Anyone can be better.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Talk-About-Race/dp/1580056776