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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Some prejudices are created by fear and the fear is created by the people 
themselves.  I know that as a child (3rd grade), we lived around the corner 
from a "holy roller" church (store front).  They had Wednesday night 
meetings there and it was frightening.  My little sister and I would be in 
bed and our window opened on the back.  Great for hearing the screaming and 
hollering.  I was 8 and she was 4.  Then one night a couple of us kids snuck 
out and went down the alley (ran behind the houses) to see what the noise 
was and that was even more frightening .

Now, I'm one who has easily outgrown my childhood fears but a whole lot of 
people don't.

As to German, youngest is learning it now and says it makes less sense and 
is a bigger pain in the arse than English ever thought of being.  Her 
favorite example of dumb language rules is that in German nouns have gender 
applied -- masculine, feminine and neuter (go figure) AND girl (madchen, 
can't do an umlaut on this computer) is neuter.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> Thanks for letting me know.  I'll be honest, I've never heard of the group 
> in which you were raised.  I will try to find some information on the web.
>
> I guess maybe it is like pentecostals being made fun of and called 'holy 
> rollers', etc.  Or maybe ins some areas Amish are laughed at.
>
>  I've never understood that kind of prejudice.  There are unusual tenants 
> in practically every religion, worldview, etc.  I have a friend that was 
> raised in a very old but small swedish religion of which I had never heard 
> (I can't remeber the name, it is some small branch of swedish 
> Christianity)
>
> p.s.  I took german one semester in college (I remeber nothing, except 
> that there are many similarities to english if you look closely).  Very 
> mean professor, everyone called "frau b*tch"  ......bobford
>
>
> --- On Fri, 10/24/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:
>
> > From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Newsweek -- "A one point race" ?
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 10:01 AM
> > bob ford wrote:
> > > Well I am confused Susan; I thought you were German?
> > It's none of my business, but I could have sworn that
> > you said, once, that German was your first language.  Who
> > malighns Germans? Well..........bobford
> > >
> > >
> > Hey, Bob!  Not all German-speakers are German!  Languages
> > show up
> > sometimes in what might be considered unexpected places,
> > for instance
> > Portuguese in Brazil.....German in Paraguay....Dutch in
> > central
> > Manitoba....Khmer in Minnesota.//.....VietNamese in South
> > Carolina......
> > migration, migration, migration...
> >
> > And it's not the language which drew/draws derision,
> > it's the
> > misunderstood people/group itself.  I grew up in an Old
> > Order German
> > Baptist Brethren, Lediite group in west central Indiana.
> > They spoke,
> > still do, a form of German.  They have been and often still
> > are, the
> > butt of many lousy laws, sordid minds, jokes, general
> > ridicule, and who
> > knows what else.  I understand to the core discrimination
> > and
> > prejudice....   It is still "home" and they are
> > still "my people",
> > albeit I've been gone these many years.
> >
> > Susan Jane, in Maine
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