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Yankees refers to all Americans. Why would it be wrong to use that word on them. Articulate your response. American citizens of all ethnicities occupy the exact same position in relation to the global periphery. Your dollar costs more than their ruble, you drive on their gas, you eat their tropical fruit, and you pay taxes to your military.

native americans are not american citizens. as, they are not Just american citizens, even if they do hold a US passport/citizenship or vote in US elections (WHICH IS A HUGE IF BECAUSE NATIVE AMERICANS ARE NOT A MONOLITH) there is literally hundreds of tribal nations with their own land, police, medical systems, laws and statutes, they all determine membership and manage resources differently. there are dozens of different Kinds of native nations, degrees to which they have independence from the US or whether they have independence or whether they're recognized as nations at all. Reservations are not just towns and they are not just Regular Places Americans Live. it is a brutal system most comparable to the salute system of the British Raj crossed with the jewish ghetto of Prague.

“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obliges people to realise some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children – some cultures oblige women to realise this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another – some cultures forbid them to realise this possibility. Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition. No culture has ever bothered to forbid men to photosynthesise, women to run faster than the speed of light, or negatively charged electrons to be attracted to each other. In truth, our concepts ‘natural’ and unnatural’ are taken not from biology, but from Christian theology. The theological meaning of ‘natural’ is ‘in accordance with the intentions of the God who created nature’. Christian theologians argued that God created the human body, intending each limb and organ to serve a particular purpose. If we use our limbs and organs for the purpose envisioned by God, then it is a natural activity. To use them differently than God intends is unnatural. But evolution has no purpose. Organs have not evolved with a purpose, and the way they are used is in constant flux. There is not a single organ in the human body that only does the job its prototype did when it first appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist, they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for example, appeared because the earliest multicellular organisms needed a way to take nutrients into their bodies. We still use our mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, to pull the pins out of hand grenades. Are any of these uses unnatural simply because our worm-like ancestors 600 million years ago didn’t do those things with their mouths?”

gordon ramsey: is the food good here?

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

A comic about cavemen.

any time I tell my mutual about the fic i'm 'writing' and they ask me where they can read it