Because the price of procrastination is having to do it later, more stressed

[aquaeri]

I haven't been posting, partly because I have been applying for actual jobs, including about four significant anxiety attacks over three weeks of working on one job application. I hope the fact that I'm recognising them sooner and am somewhat able to defuse them is a good sign

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[lalouve]

I finally came to some kind of udnerstanding of the US situation when I managed to translate, for lack of a better word, 'African-American' into 'Rom.' That gave me some kind of cultural parallell.

[lalouve]

Actually, I should say that I came to understand the attitude of white people towards African-Americans (that being what was udner discussion at the time) - kind of a 'oh, they're more or less unconsciously racist the way I am about the Rom, alas.'

[aquaeri]

I suspect there isn't any true parallel to US white-black racism, but the Rom might be the closest European parallel. There looks to me to be a whole heap of sexual stuff tied up in US race relations that I don't recall about the Rom.

[lalouve]

I don't think it's an exact parallell, but in the sense of 'people who have lived here a long time yet are somehow not accepted as equals.'

I've been away from LJ too long, it seems.

[ajollypyruvate]

This is the first I've heard of the drama. Is it the extended discussion about Ms. Bear's book? (That's what I found during a search for recent LJ drama.) It looks as if I'll be doing nearly as much blog reading as I did for the Open-Source Boob Project drama. (Which had some good stuff contained therein and some really annoying stuff, too.)

Re: I've been away from LJ too long, it seems.

[aquaeri]

It began with Elizabeth Bear, yes, but the Fail has gone well beyond that now. rydra_wong keeps track of stuff so the rest of us don't have to.