Wow...

Miley Cyrus comes off very try hard and so contrived. We all understand this is a business and part of marketing is amping up certain parts of your personality. So atleast make me somewhat believe this new image is somewhat genuine even though it's not. Urban culture isn't just twerking or hood music but hey she's the one that looks a fool.

Read. Repeat. Forget

When I study something, I like to study it because I want to learn, appreciate and actually UNDERSTAND it. I was always eager get out off high school. Why? Because I was forced to memorize some REALLY useless things I didn't give a single care about. Most of the I time just managed to read what was assigned in a book and then vomited it out during the examination and most cases forgot what I "learned." 

I think most school marks are highly subjective, and in many cases inaccurate, because they do not properly measure someone's intelligence. Just another way for society to rank people.

Ever wonder when to stop forgiving? When do you stop quickly “getting over” what angers or hurts you because most of the time, the offender doesn’t offend? How do you fairly define and create the list of "Bad Things” that will over-ride all of the previous good?

Race and The Vampire Diaries

"This is the South, honey. But no one likes to reminisce about the old slave days." - Mayor Lockewood, Vampire Dairies

I’ve been watching a show call The Vampire Diaries all week on Netflix and the race politics hit me in the face. Pretty much all the vampires in this show are white, while almost all the African Americans are witches/warlocks. 

I think the problem does not lie in that there aren't many minority characters on the show (and there have been a select few) but all the black people are witches. It creates a distinction, and it's not necessarily against black people in my mind (unless you count witches as bad) but reinforces racism in general.

I'm just going to quote this part from the World English Dictionary:

Racism is "the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others"

Independently of the part about superiority, since I think that witches can have the upper hand but can also be subjected to following orders on their vampire friends.