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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:39 PM Original message |
Poll question: Is "village" a racist (or classist) term? |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:40 PM Original message |
I grew up in a village |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. Do they call them villages or towns? |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Sure, here's the legal definition for New York State |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:46 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Right, I understand the definition, but I'm asking |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:47 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Just answered that on edit above |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:49 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Alright, well at least you |
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henrik larssonisking (211 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. i too lived in a village, a fishing village. |
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displacedtexan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
17. Illinois has a zillion villages, too. |
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Nailzberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:31 PM Response to Reply #17 |
51. I'm from a Village. |
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enki23 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. whaaaaaaaaaa? |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. That's the oddest post of the day. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You don't understand what I'm saying? |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. I think you're looking too hard for something. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. No, I wasn't looking for it. |
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Blue-Jay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:04 PM Response to Reply #26 |
41. OK OK, I think I get where you're coming from on this. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:06 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. Right...I thought it might actually be classist, instead. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:27 PM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Not 'poor' either, in Britain |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. Village is just a group of people. Has nothing whatever to do with race. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Right, but I've never heard someone refer to what's typically called a |
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Merlot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:48 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Westlake Village, Valley Village are just two of probably more |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
27. Denver has two "village" suburbs |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:01 PM Response to Reply #27 |
36. Right, but that's really not what I'm saying. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. My mother grew up in a village |
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Undercover Owl (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:43 PM Original message |
"village" if anything, sounds gay. |
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fnottr (365 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. Plenty of villages here in NM |
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CelticWinter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. I lived in a village, 457 people too small to |
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Justin54B20L (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
10. I grew up in a village. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. So, you called it a village- NOT as part of the name, "Gibsonburg |
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Justin54B20L (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:47 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. True, no village in the name, just what most classified it as. |
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DAGDA56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
12. For a while, I lived in the Village of Liberty, New York... |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
52. They still have them, but they're surrounded by towns now. |
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Withywindle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. No, I don't think so.... |
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melnjones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. I wish I grew up in a village... |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
24. I grew up in the Village of Westmont. |
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AllyCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
25. I live in an area of a city called "The Village" by |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
28. What about hamlets? |
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More Than A Feeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:56 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. They discriminate against Danish Princes. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:56 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. LOL I don't think hamlet has any of those kinds |
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htuttle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:59 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Hamlets are unincorporated |
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DrWeird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
29. I THINK I get what you're getting at. |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:57 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. YES, that's very much part of it. |
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DrWeird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:03 PM Response to Reply #32 |
39. Alright then. |
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beyurslf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:58 PM Response to Original message |
33. In OKC there is a town called The Village. |
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patdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:59 PM Original message |
Where is the NO option? I am the villagerhymer...I am neither racist nor |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
38. Try the fourth one. With all the votes next to it. nt |
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patdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:24 PM Response to Reply #38 |
49. OOPS...I want simplicity...damn it! yes or no...good or evil..damn it! |
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candle_bright (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
35. Is the group The Village People |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
37. No, but it's a crappy movie |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
40. Alright, apparently I didn't explain myself very well in the |
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rzemanfl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
42. How can this be a racist term when we have a white village idiot |
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goodhue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
43. As in Village People? Or as in Greenwich Village? |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:05 PM Response to Original message |
44. Statistics Canada still recognizes them as a type of municipality |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:15 PM Response to Reply #44 |
46. Right there: |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:18 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. it was technically a "town" when I was there, in terms of population size |
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against all enemies (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
48. BullGooseLooney? Yes, you are. I can't stand the term "main drag". |
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Lisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
53. I'd vote "yes" for certain connotations -- different from BGL's, though |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
54. Villages are little. |
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Cuban_Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
55. I live in a village. |
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ZombieNixon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-05 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
56. The official name of the neighborhood I grew up in was |
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