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Originally Posted by Aleta
InDebtInDC: You sound like a very angry person
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I am angry at ignorance. Right now I'm treating you like somebody who flick me off because I'm doing the speed limit in the right lane. Doing the speed limit in the right lane is my right. You shouldn't get upset at other people when they're asserting their rights.
You're free to practice your own traditions, but don't get high and mighty and say that your tradition is better than anyone else's simply because they are your own. They are your traditions, and are no more or less legimitate than anyone else's tradition.
That "do what you want in your own country" attitude can also be turned around on you because unless you are native Indian, if I went back far enough at some point you were an immigrant as well. And even if you were native Indian you migrated here from somewhere else earlier. There was life on this continent before your family landed here.
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Originally Posted by Aleta
I don't consider slavery a tradition. Those are causes and alot of people don't believe in most of the causes you spoke of.
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Main Entry: tra·di·tion
Pronunciation: \trə-ˈdi-shən\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English tradicioun, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French tradicion, from Latin tradition-, traditio action of handing over, tradition — more at treason
Date: 14th century
1 a: an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom) b: a belief or story or a body of beliefs or stories relating to the past that are commonly accepted as historical though not verifiable
2: the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs by word of mouth or by example from one generation to another without written instruction
3: cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs, and institutions
4: characteristic manner, method, or style <in the best liberal tradition>
While I don't disagree that slavery is a cause, slavery rests on the premise that people of different skin colours are different and not equal.
Slavery meets all definitions of a "tradition" as posted above.
We live. We die. Get over it. If the OP wants to ask for money, and as long as she doesn't blow it, let her ask for it in the way she feels is best.
The entire focus of this thread is wrong. We should be helping her:
a) get as much money as possible;
b) manage the money she does get; and
c) make it grow for her.
This is the saving advice forum, not the social etiquette forum.