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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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That's the point for you everything is race, we hate our neighbours thirty kilometers away not because they are white or black, but becuase they are savage and barely even count as humans. 🙃
Greeks and turks aren't different race (or different anything, really), they are historical enemies and subscribe ro different religions.
Point is, nobody but americans (as far as random conversations on the internet go) think in races or whatever, people don't hate gypsies because they look like gypsies, but because who they are and what they represent for people that hate them.
Even your statistics is always points out which race does whatever and low-key always imply that latino (whatever the term means) isn't really white.
We do have a weird thing with Latinos, legally and socially. I've met many, many people who I had no idea claimed "Latino" until they told me.
As to the law, every job application asks if you're "white but not Hispanic". That's an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulation. Also, that's why we keep those stats. You can opt not to answer.
We've had to craft boatloads of laws to ensure that we're treating each other fairly. But again, that stems from earlier racism and current diversity.
I get your drift, but it would be weird for Europeans to speak of "race" when everyone pretty much looks the same. LOL, I'm well aware that Italians don't look like Scandinavians, but I gather it wouldn't be noticeable if one were in the other country?