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:.Hey x3My name is Emily and blah blah blah.
:.I have a lot of personal, family, and friend issues of my own so a lot of times, I can probably relate to you a lot of times if you have personal, family, and/or friend issues.
:.I can offer a lot of information, help, and advice on family and friend relationships, love lives, depression, stretching/flexibility, weight loss, violin, being organized, dog training, forensics (public speaking), keeping up with school/extracurricular activities, eating disorders, writing (stories and poems), and probably a lot of other random stuff like what to drink when you eat something spicy and why.
:.Although I can help a lot of you guys on the above subjects, I don't tend to take my own advice so it can become quite an awkward/ironic/contradicting situation for me or make myself sound like a complete and utter hypocrite.
:.Hannah Whitall Smith once said, "The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." I agree 100% of it. Advice is advice and it is given when asked for. I give it and I leave it at that. It's up to the questioner/advice seeker to take it.
:.That point leads onto my philosophies in advice giving:
1. Advice is given when asked and no time else, unless your friend is about to irritate a black bear, then you should definitely advice your friend to back away and run for his or her life.
2. Advice is not critical, not judgmental, and definitely not biased. Advice is advice and should remain neutral.
3. Advice is to help, not to get 5s on every answer. As a result, my advice ends up being quite blunt and frank with a hint of rambling mixed in.
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:.If you want to ask me a question directly...
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Hi. I am going into grade 9 and I am half asian. At my school I have got a few racist comments but none of them really affected me because the few i got were from friends and they didnt mean it in a bad way at all. Now I am going into High School and im worried. I live in an area where almost every student is causcasion. So basically racism was never really frowned apon cause noone was "different" in physical appearance to be judged. Anyways, I was looking forward to this year until now. At a fair I hung out with this guy from Wales. I started to relize many high school guys were calling us the "chink and illegal immagrant". I hated it especailly since I actually knew of these guys and I knew many of my friends I have now are planning to hang out with them. Everytime i passed them I was called a chink and one time i got two sticks thrown at me. Im really worried about high school now and I dont know what to think of my friends. Please I need advice on what I should do? How should I go into High School? Should I just take it all?
Thank You
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Well, to ignore them...you just flat out ignore them? Haha. Just pretend that they're not there and that they're merely nothing but air. If they make some stupid remark, just say something simple like "Funny" in a sarcastic way. Then just walk away saying no more even if they do reply back. If you have a friend walking by your side, just continue to talk to her even if you get racist comments. And if you do get stupid comments and don't have a friend by your side, flag down someone you know in the hallway and just start talking to them and ignore the racist people. Hmm, yeah. Preteend you didn't hear them and don't react. That will only make them want to make more racist comments because they know that they're bothering you and they get a good kick out of that for some odd reason. So don't get stressed over it. Don't react and don't listen. Just move on as if they said nothing. Wow. This paragraph was pretty much repetitive...
Oh, and for future reference, it would be better if you inbox columnists instead of asking more questions in the feedback section because we have no other way to answer your questions but through the original question page, which we're not certain if you'll check again. =)
good luck in high school and don't let those stupid people get you down . Starting high school has got to be better than elemantry[sp?] and middle school!!!
(Rating: 5) thanks =D I guess i was just overreacting a bit... how do you ignore them though? I lived in the city so I was never used to it and now I get it alot and its like, I also get really mad when they make fun of Rhodri (thats the guy) and its hard to ignore it. How do you do it?