The saddest part may be that the whole free-for-all obscured a legitimate question. Namely, "How can we reconcile my security needs with the religious requirements of my neighbor and his friends?"
I'm not sure there was ever a chance for that discussion to be the focus given the way the letter itself came about. I mean, would this even have been an issue without her "digust" for their lifestyle? Not the security issue, which is real, but the reason the writer couldn't just deal with it civilly in the first place.
How rational can comments be when you start from "how can I get over my abhorrence for these people crossing my path in the first place to swallow my disgust and speak to my neighbor? Or should I just have them evicted?"
Squeee! I almost missed my stop with the sparkysquee! Squee!
Yay, for babyfras!!! We welcome our new Buffista babylord with open tentacles!
YAYAYAYAYAY!!! Go Sparky and DH! So happy for y'all. I love starting the morning with a squeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
Hey, has anyone talked to Teppy lately? I realized that I haven't seen her on here in a while and knew she was having a rough time. If you're out there, hi Tep!
Congrats, Sparky!
Total tangent:
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What exactly is meant by 'Hispanic', or 'Latino'? I mean, my understanding is that these words are interchangeable, and my assumption (and I sincerely apologise if this is coming across as offensive, because I'm not trying to be disingenuous here - this just isn't a UK thing) is that it's not so much an ethnic grouping as it is a cultural (linguistic/religious) grouping? Only that seems not to quite be the case. Could someone explain this to me? Does it boil down to biracial? I know that we've got a number of Buffistas of Hispanic extraction - can someone clarify this for me?
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She was taking a bit of a break, but yeah, it's been a while since I've seen her here or lj.
She responded to a post in my LJ this morning.
Fay, Hispanic is an ethnicity, not race. But, I'm going to leave more information up to people who actually know something about this.
You see, that still doesn't help me, vw. What do you mean by the words race and ethnicity?
