03-01-2005, 03:58 AM
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Mrs FussyPucker
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: England
Posts: 3,635
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Originally Posted by osuche
Hmmm...I once dated a Jehovah's Witness, and he made me sweaty palmed too.  Maybe you have something there, Lou.
Seriously....In this regard, I think you're a better women than me. Clearly.
I am not sure when my fear started to emerge, but I think it's been within the last 10-15 years. There is a "type" of black person running about the streets of COlumbus, that have a BIG chip on their shoulder and are out to hurt people who they perceive as having things they don't have.....these are the people who scare me, and there are some of those in my neighborhood.
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(((((((Osuche))))))))
I wasn't suggesting that I'm a better person than anyone, just that I'm pleased that I've been brought up in a cultural environment which I assume is what prevents me from falling into the 'expected' patterns of behaviour, as described in these tests.
However, perhaps it's not even my culture....having read about psychometric testing during my degree course, I'm very sceptical about these kind of things, and I know they can be easily foiled.
For me, it was a case of overriding what my reactions had learned from the first bit of the test, so that when black and white switched sides, I re-learned that while before black and bad were synonymous, now black and good were. How did I do this....a simple little memory trick to form a new association in my mind to keep me on track - I visualised Morgan Freeman playing the part of God in 'Bruce Almighty', therefore creating a very simple mental link that black=good. Keeping that in mind probably helped me to stay focussed on the fact that there had been a change. I use little 'concept association' tricks like that when I'm acting to help me remember lines too. 
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