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Downwinder

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10. This should go in here somewhere.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2014, 07:13 AM

Feb 2014

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The problem with little white girls (and boys) [View all] Recursion Feb 2014 OP

this is why we should start requiring spanish in schools and add in a 3rd language JI7 Feb 2014 #1

Yeah; I really support more foreign language instruction and requirements Recursion Feb 2014 #2

Totally agree. tecelote Feb 2014 #12

Depends where you live. Igel Feb 2014 #25

Ever listen to a Spanish class in school? Igel Feb 2014 #23

I teach Spanish I and II in high school. knitter4democracy Feb 2014 #35

The Dutch start language learning... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #31

Our communities in the US Aerows Feb 2014 #3

Probably a more useful summer job than McDonalds alarimer Feb 2014 #21

I disagree to an extent Pretzel_Warrior Feb 2014 #4

Agreed Treant Feb 2014 #6

Yes Dorian Gray Feb 2014 #17

so how this is a problem with race, as opposed to knowledge with which people are raised? nt msongs Feb 2014 #5

Exactly. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2014 #11

It isn't so much about not volunteering as not volunteering JoeyT Feb 2014 #7

Just going to the third world and spending money there is probably already helping, frankly. Donald Ian Rankin Feb 2014 #8

I call it the Edmund Hilary complex malaise Feb 2014 #9

Hillary always made it very clear Tenzing summited first Recursion Feb 2014 #14

Yeah! Dorian Gray Feb 2014 #16

Much less having it said of him that he "discovered" Everest. n/t Igel Feb 2014 #26

This should go in here somewhere. Downwinder Feb 2014 #10

If you can replace pipoman Feb 2014 #13

The author is way too obsessed with race. Nye Bevan Feb 2014 #15

I think the author makes the mistake of assuming that all hedgehog Feb 2014 #18

lots of white people have similar skill sets to the peoples of the third world and skills they need loli phabay Feb 2014 #22

This is a problem not with race but with culture Spider Jerusalem Feb 2014 #19

White people: Genetically incapable of bricklaying and light masonry. Codeine Feb 2014 #20

Yeah, we suck. SMC22307 Feb 2014 #29

Habitat for Humanity has been utilizing unskilled labor for years csziggy Feb 2014 #24

Indeed. Igel Feb 2014 #27

The article is about voluntourism, not real volunteering csziggy Feb 2014 #28

The sentence "we also got a week-long safari" kind of said that for me Recursion Feb 2014 #32

Yes - the people I know that volunteer tend to live rough csziggy Feb 2014 #37

Good advice. I recommend reading Barbara Kingsolver's novel, "The Poisonwood Bible" in Zorra Feb 2014 #30

Good article, but what in the heck does this have to do with "privilege"? AverageJoe90 Feb 2014 #33

It has everything to do with white privilege. kwassa Feb 2014 #36

Yeah. The "Teach For America" fallacy, even... (nt) Recursion Feb 2014 #38

An excellent example. kwassa Feb 2014 #39

Shocking that people who haven't ever done physical manual labor aren't very good at it Fumesucker Feb 2014 #34