Ethnic
Ethnic, according to Merriam-Webster online means a group of people classified by a common background. Thus, ethnic music could mean anything from down-home country to the twangs of a didgeridoo.
Of course, there is another definition that Merriam-Webster gives for the word Ethnic --Heathen. Heathen is actually the first definition it gives. I think that it is ironic that the politically correct word most people use to describe people from another culture, first and foremost means heathen. Apparently, if you are a person of color, you must also be strange, uncivilized, and not Christian. It is politically correct, though, so no complaints, right? :)
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Fragile
I cannot type that word without imagining the father from A Christmas Story in my head "Fra-Geel-Lay" It must be Itallian! That line really makes me laugh.
I think that if I had to describe life with one word, Fragile would be pretty close to the top of my list of words. I feel like life is happy and fulfilling, but I also know it is so fragile.
It's easy to think of fragile as meaning on the verge of breaking, or easily broken, but I like to think of fragile more as something extremely precious. Something that, yes, is easily broken, but is also worth defending and protecting.
I don't remember where I was going with this anymore, but...
Life is good, and I'm a happy girl!
1 comments:
Okay I just have to tell you, I work with a black girl at work (yep thats right I said Black ;) and people always request her to do their hair, but when they do they request "the ethnic girl". And it always makes me want to say, and what ethnicity exactly are you referring to?? But that would probably make them far too uncomfortable so I keep my little mouth shut. I think its weird that thats what people say and like you said, that it is the "politically correct" (yet makes no sense) choice.
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