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• Mexican Lowrider and Gang Culture in the 1970’s

  Jm8 writes:I’m curious, how was low rider culture different from the modern East LA Chicano culture (I know vert little about the former)? Was it mainly just... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mexican and South American Women and Machismo (Hypermasculinity)

  Jorge writes:It’s curious because it is said that many Paraguayan women seek Argentine men because Paraguayan men are too masculine and male chauvinist (I... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mexicans and South Americans and the Influence of Spain

  I had an Argentine girlfriend for a while. While she was disappointed that I was not a machista, she really liked the fact that I was an intellectual. She said ... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Xhosa, Ndebele and Zulu Languages

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Inuktitut Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Swahili Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Ju|’hoan Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Taa Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are Straight Men Afraid of Gay Men?

  The answer, by and large, is of course yes, but it’s not for the stupid lies that the Cultural Left talks about. I answered this question on Quora, and here is... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cultural Left Theory of Homophobia: The Cultural Left Is Wrong Again

  The Cultural Left says straight men are afraid of gay men if they are afraid of being gay themselves or if they have gay tendencies themselves. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Basque Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here.Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Regime Change in Libya: Follow the Money

  Here.I have always thought that all of these wars were all about the money.I remember in the run-up to that stupid Gulf War in 1991, I was arguing with my... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Hillary Clinton, Neoconservative Dream Candidate

  Here.Good God, she’s a nightmare. This election is going to be about who we despise least. I hate Trump, but I definitely despise Killary/Hitlery Clinton, neoco... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• ISIS: Made in America

  Here.I have probably read hundreds of pages on this matter recently, and I still do not know what to make of it. I think this whole “War on ISIS:” is fake.ISIS... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Monopoly Capital and Capitalist Inequality: Marx After Piketty,” By Thomas E....

  Great article that concludes that almost all of the massive wealth that has accumulated among the wealthy in the US in recent years has been due to an huge... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Western Moral Decline Or Capitalist Decadence?,” by John Kovas

  This is a good piece. You can find it at Kofas’ website, or I got it off of Academia.edu. Looking at his website, it appears that the rest of his stuff is prett... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mental Health Diagnosis: More of an Art Than a Science

  A commenter writes:How can they be “pretty damn good” and “wrong”?Because diagnosis of mental illness is much more of an art than a science, that’s why. It’s... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Negative Rates, Plunging Yields and a “Fix” for the Economy, by Mike Whitney

  Very interesting article by Mike Whitney, an acquaintance of mine. I do not understand economics very well, but some of you may understand it better than I do. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Every Race Is a New Race

  From here.This is so perfect.Problem is that ancient Caucasoids look anything but Caucasoid, and ancient Northern Eurasians look anything but Northern Eurasian. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• When a Pscychopath Enters Your Life…

  She’s in Parties writes about the difficulty of diagnosing psychopaths:You don’t notice them until the damage has been done.I am afraid that’s about it. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2016 POLITICS, SOCIETY