But it's a cultural event that's been around since 1966!

Posted By: sm on 2005-12-17
In Reply to: and don't flame me.. .I know Kwanza is a cultural event, not - religious...nm

http://www.kwanzaaland.com/

How did it come about then that a "holiday" that was "invented" less than 40 years ago (apparently to create a semblance of culture for the otherwise cultureless) has become more acceptable to acknowledge one that has been around for 16 centuries!

http://wilstar.com/xmas/xmassymb.htm

It's so condescending and ridiculous that if it weren't so darned outright offensive it would be laughable.

But it isn't.

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I don't celebrate and/or believe in Kwanza, Hanukkah, Ramadan, etc. - I'm tolerant enough to let them celebrate as th
- Don't you feel guilty for being a white Christian? - sm
  - Frankly, this all sounds hateful. sm - mt
    - It doesn't sound HATEFUL to me, this person is just saying that suddenly - nm
      - Forced to conform? It's a holiday show with music. sm - MT
    - :::huge applause for you::: nm - Becky
  - I'M not - susanna
- Live and let live. Don't force your lifestyle on me. - my motto
- my children are minorities - sm
- The kids' "holiday" programs at school were full of African and - I agree.
  - I agree with you. It's very VERY offensive! - sm
    - Maybe you should homeschool your kids if you don't want sm - MT
  - Nothing said is the same as condoning - Anything said?
    - Write the representatives of their state because the holiday program wasn't exclusive? - what?
- and don't flame me.. .I know Kwanza is a cultural event, not - religious...nm
  - But it's a cultural event that's been around since 1966! - sm
    - collective work and responsibility? - HAHAHAHa
      - LMAO! - nm
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and don't flame me.. .I know Kwanza is a cultural event, not
nm

I started my "career" in 1966...

at a local hospital; even back then MTs were not appreciated within those hallowed hospital halls. Just a few months after starting at the hospital, I was snatched up by a most wonderful orthopaedic surgeon; did well there. Then around 1969 decided to go to Miami of all places; found a large, (for that era in time), MTSO, was hired immediately made exceedingly good money, was promoted to manage their largest office on Biscayne Boulevard. The money was good and the "wine was flowing"; could buy most anything I wanted and pay cash! Started my own MTSO in Atlanta, Ga. in the early and mid 1970's and did very, very well and paid the MTs very well...all were happy! Sold the business and moved back to care for my dying father.

Now, the late 1980's is when I saw the first signs of gangrene setting in. Was working for an MTSO out of New York, R&R Transcription, (I was in Florida).....at first things were going very well, everyone including the MTSO making good money. Next think you know, R&R decided to keep changing the way we were paid....(a good sign they are trying to reconfigure so the company gets more)...one time it was paid per line, then they increased the number of characters needed to constitute a line...then it was pay by the page.....then it was pay by the minute....then back to pay per line but without a lot of exclusions!!! Just like gangrene, it will consume and destroy the entire body unless the infected part is amputated!! So here we are...Yes, I'm still an MT and still enjoy it; but I most definitely look back and wonder how in the world we could have let this happen. Oh for the "good old days"!!

It is a cultural difference
and if you are going to stay friends with a German woman then you are going to have to accept the way they address you and everyone else. I have a friend who is like this and it makes me crazy, along with whacking the dog on the head as well as her son who is 6'4" but is just too nice to clout her back. She nearly marches around the house .. ya-vol.

Sometimes cultural differences....sm
Can give the wrong impression. I've personally met Indians and Pakistanis, physicians and otherwise, who are absolutely delightful--IMO, far nicer than New Yorkers and other damyankees who tend to be what a southerner or East Texan would consider rude, abrupt, and plain downright hateful. I think those yankees just often have to live in an environment of wall-to-wall people and thus erect bobwire boundaries that a Texan or Oklahoman cannot understand or forgive. Just keep 'em away from me, I have little tolerance for their cold behavior. On the other hand, some yankees are the best, nicest people you'd ever hope to see.

India is wall-to-wall people too. It's not fair to form one's opinion of people by their nationality or ethnic background, just because of a bad experience with a few or a certain number.

1966 Chevy Corvair - rootbeer brown.
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If they are like wedding announcements, you do it AFTER the event - sm
if you are inviting people to attend then I would think 3-4 weeks prior to the event.

Were documents signed initially that focused on such an event?
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