When you are the future a lot rides on your shoulders. Do not let us down.

You fail to realize or fail to recognize or fail to wave around your knowledge of the disgusting crimes against humanity around the world - this angers me because it scares me.

When I see people daily who have gone through such atrocities that they are now on the other side of the world seeking refuge and you have no idea what is happening or even where the country is - it scares me for the future of our country.

I remember trying to explain to someone about Cambodia's recent history (Khmer Rouge) and Burma's present - someone who could really only conceive the European Holocaust and had a tiny idea about gang violence in America. What's worse- she didn't have any desire to learn.

How can I make you...?

Ethnic...but in a good way

 Last weekend I dug out a long green dress to wear that I had purchased in Thailand.

So as I was walking past a new roommate she looked at me and 'ooooo-ed" "That's a pretty dress...It's ethnic...but in a good way."

What the hell does ethnic mean to her? Had she not said "but in a good way" did she think I would perceive that as an insult?

what an idiot. what a racist.