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anthropology is the study of human beings. archeology is the study of humans physically ( ie. ancient human bones, tools and other artifiacts that track humans evolution and migration). and archeologist and an anthrpologist are people who study these disciplines. aracheology is a subfield of anthrpology. other subfields include linguistics (language) and cultural anthropology.

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Anthropology is the study of man. Archeaology is a subset discipline dealing with past cultures through studying artifacts.

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Why has using porn become “normal” to the point where if someone is against it they are considered a “prude”? Is the internet to blame for this? Or is it the fact that the standards of intimate relationships have changed? Or is it something else?

The Internet has made it easy to get, which does help the usage become “normal,” but I think it’s more a by-product than anything else. Pornography has been around for hundreds of years actually. The difference is, now you’re considered weird to not support it, at least if you’re a man (and it’s becoming increasingly so for women).

Morals have changed. In most cases, moral standards have been lowered, or disappeared completely. I think that has more to do with it than anything.

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I think its a natural outcome of the ‘everyone take care of themself’ direction sexuality has gone.

There was a time when wives and husbands were considered responsible for each other’s sexual needs. In practice, I think wives were expected to satisfy husbands far more then the converse, which is a shame - it should go both ways. However, in recent decades, we’ve moved to a model where ‘if both people want sex, they should have it, nobody is expected to have sex, everyone can take care of their own needs’.

So basically, from a ’sex is normal’ model to a ‘masturbation is normal, sex is a fun thing that happens’ model.

Note that I’m not against masturbation, I’m just not sure that a relationship is best sustained by independant masturbation. Masturbation has always - and will always - involved a lot of fantasy, and frankly porn is just an aid to that, one that is now easier to access. Married men might not have gone to the trouble of buying and hiding porn, but now can just download it.

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Because the media (meaning t.v., Internet, papers, mags… all press) is on a mass mission to de-sensitize our country and using porn and porn-like materials in commercials and prime time t.v. shows, the news, books, is just another building block to accomplish it. There are even elements of sexuality in children’s cartoons. They have people brainwashed into thinking that those of us who find this unacceptable are “prudes” or “cry babies”. But the truth is that it is just another lane in the highway of “Anything goes land”. They are just prepping you and molding you to except yet another form of inappropriateness that they will eventually Begin to display

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The labour force in Australia is defined as all those persons over the age of 15 (the people of working age population) who are employed plus all of those who are actively looking for work. The percentage of the working age population in the labour force is defined as the participation rate. The factors affecting participation rates are varied and many. I have included an example in the follwing:

A study was undertaken to examine the influence of various demographic, educational, and economic factors on the labor force participation rates in Ghana. 1960 and 1970 census data were used for the study. Female participation rates in Ghana were seen to be high relative to many countries, although they are considerably lower than male rates. Female participation rates are only moderately affected by age with peak activity occurring at rather advanced ages. Women in the northern areas and in urban areas have lower participation rates. In fact, due to the inhibiting effect of school attendance, participation rates for both sexes were lower in urban areas. Participation rates were positively associated with migration rates for males and negatively associated for females. Childcare was found not to be incompatible with female economic activity. Female rates increased between 1960 and 1970.

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I am in no way a racist but… are blacks abusing the fact that they were enslaved over 100 yrs ago? They have affirmative action, BET, Ebony magizine, among other things. If whites were to do this, acusations of racism and images of the KKK/ Nazis would flood the media… If (and most likely, when) Obama gets elected President, do you think anything would change?

Slavery happened longer than 100 years… 400+, and it happened in more places than just North America. And yes, it was a devastating thing. There was more to it than people being made to work for free. The slaves were taken from their land, stripped of their culture, language, and every other thing humans have a right to, and take for granted. Families were split up, people were killed, lynched, (over little petty sh!t) just so the people around them would “know their place”.

The slaves were made to feel that “white is right”, and that mentality still exists. That’s why a lot of Black people, especially women, look down on nappy hair (which is how Black hair naturally is) - getting perms and dyes to look other than themselves. That’s why people whose hair straightens easily are said to have “good hair”. These are all parts of black inferiority complexes - passed down from generation to generation.

And don’t look at the Civil Rights (60’s) and Black Power (70’s) movements as the answer to all of our problems. Yes they helped, but were not the “end-all” of racism, bigotry, sexism, etc. in America. The leaders of these movements were systematically killed (look up Fred Hampton, and John Africa), locked up (look up Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Huey P. Newton), and the list goes on. J. Edgar Hoover (director of the CIA during the 60’s and 70’s) even went as far as to have millions of dollars of heroin and other drugs sent to major cities, targeting neighborhoods where black organizations were influential. And if you take into account that this was a time when a lot of soldiers were coming back from Vietnam, with disabilities, PTS, etc. its easy to see how drugs were able to have a devastating affect on the community. (This is important because drugs have always been present in the black community, but they had never had the effects that we see today, to this degree - especially since Ronald Ragaen and the Iran-Contra Affair.)

And even though they were wrong to a degree - the Jena 6 case, as well as what happened (and what’s happening) in NO are clear examples, with a modern context.

BET is in no way anywhere near a positive thing. All it does is help to spread stereotypes, and self-hatred. Affirmative Action is in no way a end-all solution either.

I could go on and on, I can’t even cover everything without almost witting a book. But the main thing is that they were broken down mentally, for generations. No we’re not physically in chains anymore, but the mental affects of 400+ years of that bullshit still exists, and yes, it does still have an affect. That’s just like if you abuse a child, or if someone goes through a traumatic experience, that child/person will still be affected mentally by those events well after they have been removed from the situation. And yes, there are a lot of black people who play the race card, and have no idea what they’re talking about.

No the “race card” does not apply to every situation, and no black people are not totally innocent (as we see today).

It may not look like it from your point of view, but there is way more going on than what it appears. Just because people aren’t calling us “ni99er” to our faces, or killing us out in the open (outside of police officers) anymore doesn’t mean that racism doesn’t exist. And no, racism is not THE problem, but it is A problem. The main problem is classism - sexism, ageism, racism, etc. are all related to, and a result of, classism.

Self-Hate - Black Doll/White Doll experiment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWEXJ-Qd1…

1) I’m Black.
2) I know when and when not to play “the race card”
3) Don’t accept anything at face value

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I think it’s important to remember that no individual or group of people can speak for their race. Not all Black people want or ask for race-based programs, and not all of them feel like they benefit from them either. Furthermore, the people who do believe in those programs and special interest things are addressing the legacy of slavery, not just the historic institution. Things didn’t become magically equal after the freedom of the slaves or desegregation (which was not as long ago as we like to believe), and there are still many instances of subtle prejudice and discrimination. We can’t help but internalize this culture’s racial hierarchy, even if we don’t personally believe it to be valid.
I think it’s great that Obama is trying to talk to the Americans as intelligent, equality-minded people, because the only way that real equality will happen is by the joint efforts of people of all races. But even in the most perfect society, there will always be people (of all races) believing that they are not treated fairly and demanding more.

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i found the Sacajawea dollars werent very popular, the u.s mint has come out with new president dollar coins hoping americans will actually use them. they last longer and will hold more worth over a longer time.

what do you think about using coin instead of paper?

The main economic reason for creating dollar coins instead of dollar bills is that while the coins are more expensive to make, bills don’t usually survive more than a year in circulation before they have to be replaced while coins typically last decades, so the total cost over the lifetime of the currency is less.

The reason I think the coins consistently fail in the US is because the government is too spineless to say, “we’re making the decision to do this, so from now on we have coins”. Instead they slowly release coins in small batches, making sure they stay weird and unfamiliar for as long as possible. Couple that with a natural American distrust of government changes to anything and it’s no wonder they fail when they’re introduced like that.

I was in Canada when they released the loonie ($1) and later the toonie ($2) coins, and they simply said, “we’ve made the decision to switch for economic reasons”. Loonies were put into circulation and after a little bit banks stopped giving out $1 bills and instead returned them to the mint for destruction so within a year the coin was the only game in town. Within a year, vending machines had caught up, someone invented the “loonie catcher” as a convenient way to carry the coins, and all was well.

If the US really introduced the coin and stopped printing the bills, the coin would gain acceptance because it would have to. So long as it keeps making half-measures people are always going to stick to the familiar.

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The government has been TRYING since the 1794 to get people to use the dollar coin without much success.

Dollar coins have been minted in the United States in gold, silver, and base metal versions. Silver dollars, the first dollar coin issue, were minted beginning in 1794.

A QUOTE from a coin magazine.

“Political pressure, not public demand, brought the Morgan dollar into being. There was no real need for a new silver dollar in the late 1870s; the last previous “cartwheel,” the Liberty Seated dollar, had been legislated out of existence in 1873, and hardly anyone missed it”

Now almost 140 years later the Susan B. Anthony and Sacajawea is on the way out ( Few knew it was here)
and they are trying the Presidential dollar. “Remember the old Eisenhower dollar coin”.

I doubt this new coin will have any better luck but maybe. We need a usable dollar coin.. but don’t replace my dollar bills.

http://www.coinresource.com/guide/photog…

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As TK said, it’s a measurement of Consumer’s Willingness to spend their money and is going to be affected by their feelings of job security, prices (especially oil), news reports, etc. The University of Michigan I believe publishes an index, as does the Conference Board.

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That is a very good question, as consumer confidence is down to 50.4 %. Too bad they don’t say what the questions of confidence are. It’s also bad that it doesn’t end at 100%, as one confidence level was 111 %. Just another contrived figure. Have your own confidence and don’t worry about it, I guess. Be prepared for all contingencies.

Have you made the choice to be childfree ?if so why or when did you make this decision?for me i was 14 and it came as a natural choice for me how about you,people said i would change my mind but im 28 now and i still havent.

Yes. I don’t think I ever consciously made the choice, I have just never liked the idea of being a mom. I never even wanted to play with dolls as a kid, although I used to assume that when I got older my maternal instinct would kick in and I’d want some. It just never did. Luckily I found a guy who also has no desire to be a parent.

People said I would change my mind, too. I also get called selfish a lot. Some people just cannot wrap their minds around anything “different”.

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Yes I am. And I made the decision when I realized I really didn’t have what it took to be a good mother. I wasn’t and am not selfless enough.

I only wish more women would think long and hard about it before becoming mothers…it isn’t a job for everyone, just because you have the ability, physically, to give birth…

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I was child free up until age 38, when I got pregnant by accident.

I adore my daughter to pieces, and can’t imagine life without her. It’s an overwhelming love no one can explain to you until you experience it.

HOWEVER…it’s a ton of work and it’s certainly not for everybody, so I respect the choices of people who choose to remain child free.

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I was 16 when I decided to be childfree. I’m 18 now and I have yet to regret making that decision. I’m childfree because I don’t trust myself to be a good mother, and there are too many other things I want to do with my life.

Feminism at its core is destructive to the women that serve it!! So it stands to reason that it will destroy everything it comes in contact with. A real man is NEVER going to put up with the disrespect that flows from a feminists mouth and a feminist doesn’t have the balls to be challenged by a man who won’t put up with her crap!! Therefore relationships… ruined.
So the only men that fems can find are those who have been emasculated by feminist mothers that have been beating them down since birth. And because the relationship is unbalanced its doomed to fail also.
So in conclusion… feminism sucks all the way around…

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Feminism doesn’t destroy male/female relationships. It’s when people are self righteous about their beliefs that does, which some feminists are. These people have given feminism a bad name, but people forget, without feminism women wouldn’t be able to vote or wear pants or own property or earn money.

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Since when? They seem pretty good to me. They also seem pretty good to every feminist here who is either married or in a relationship.

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Feminism is a sexist, bias and divisive ideology that create division between men and women.

I don’t understand it…we’re paying more than $4 a gallon and are quickly sliding into a really deep recession here in America, but India and China aren’t exactly big oil-producing nations!

Why isn’t their economies slowing to a grind as well?

Consider this though, China is Communist, the “State” buys the gas, thus fixing the consumer price any where they want. Since they buy in such great quantity, they can do as they wish. India is staffing the world’s Internet services and paying their people dirt. A bicycle in India is a prized possession. There are far fewer people over there that own vehicles. We on the other hand, have vehicles that sit in the garages and are used during the summer, that’s where the rub really is. If a “Big Boy Toy” tax was instituted I bet gas wouldn’t be as hard to get or cost nearly as much. Did you know, at least 25 cents per gallon is just sales tax? And there’s federal taxes and profit mark ups as well? Profit driven everyone of them.

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I think your premise is kind of off. Yeah, the economy is in bad shape, but it isn’t simply gas prices rising by $1/gallon up from where they were last year. The typical American uses about, what, 20-25 gallons a week. So it’s about 50 dollars more per weak for the average family. This is a difference, but you can adjust to it. And many are. But, to be outraged is simply to admit to prior ignorance. I think you could see this coming for years.

Their economies are not slowing to a grind because they are not the same economies as us. Gas prices are affecting the economy, but not as much as insufficient demand. The Fed doesn’t lower interest rates so people can barrow it for gasoline! LOL, it’s to increase investment spending which is the primary source of economic growth.

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The goverments are subsidizing it and keeping the price down artificially.