This from a company that took two years to allow its phone users to change the background image on their phones...

Good video. I'm particularly pleased that Asian were depicted, rather than the standard fare of denigrating Whites.

Whoah, so many Turks in the first few scenes...

Somalians being Somalian?

What a crazy world!

I guess the cultural enrichment makes it all worthwhile.. and the restaurants!

Oh the comfort of repeating conditioned sentences! How I miss those days... being knowledgeable about something simply required rehashing what a newscaster spewed or repeating what your college professor chanted incessantly.

I didn't think this was actually necessary, but apparently doing the requisite research on a particular subject is far too taxing for most people. Don't sweat it though, it's certainly not an insular problem on the Sift, although I would expect more from people who own computers and have at least some level of comfort with the internet... but I suppose it's simply a matter of intellectual due diligence.

I have watched dozens of documentaries and read countless reports and articles on the subject of AIDS in Africa and would like to present the case of Swaziland.

This kingdom is ravaged by AIDS with nearly a quarter of the population and nearly half of 25-35 year olds already infected by HIV. Swaziland has also benefited from health programs that are exemplary on the African continent.

I will refer here to an extensive survey performed by major agencies (WHO, UNICEF etc) involved in preventing the spread of the virus. It can be viewed at http://www.safaids.net/files/Swaziland%20Demographic%20and%20Health%20Survey%202006-2007.pdf

Because I doubt most would actually take the time to read it, I will cite the portions which are relevant to the arguments I made, and which refute claims that Africans are victims of "misinformation" or that the preventative framework does not exists.

Knowledge of the existence of AIDS (male and female, all age groups), page 24
97.83%

Knowledge that abstaining from intercourse is a preventative measure (all age groups), page 25
88.90%

Knowledge that someone infected does not always display symptoms (all persons aged 15-49), page 27
95.9%

The cost of a condom is about 4 cents in Swaziland, and in the 15 minutes it took me to get the above figures I learned that at least 100 million is poured into the country every year by various nations and aid agencies. If only five percent of that is used to purchase condoms we're looking at
125,000,000 units, which I will concede is not nearly enough for the levels of promiscuity seen in Africa. However, I suspect the investment in male contraceptives is a far greater figure.

I recall a video that made the top 15 here not too long ago about a young boy who made a football by using a condom... the comments lauded his ingenuity and completely ignored the misuse of what should be a valuable commodity. Talk about hypocrisy...

AIDS is extremely preventable. All you need is some sexual restraint and to insist your partner wear a rubber. I have no sympathy unless a person acquired the virus by rape.

It doesn't help that condoms are extremely available in all urban centers and that some of the drugs we give them are ground up and smoked.

Do you think it is possible that an enemy exploit your weakness? What if this weakness is so glaringly obvious because it is your sole sense of national pride?

Accepting things that are completely alien to our civilization and contrary to Western principles is NOT enriching.

There is absolutely no net "attribute" in allowing men to force women to cover themselves with sheets when going outside, there is no betterment of our social institutions to allow sexism to creep back, there is no advantage in harboring the most hateful preachers on the planet and there is certainly no altruism in encouraging the returning shackles of religious fundamentalism.

This "community center" is an obvious attempt to show that no matter what our sensibilities are, we will ALWAYS put them aside in order to demonstrate a deep and unrelenting "respect" for absolutely anything under the sun except ourselves.

Remember that if you believe in "everything", you essentially believe in nothing.
>> ^geo321:

One very great attribute that the US and Canada can brag about is that they've been the best at bringing people of different cultures into normality within society. For many decades. Now for political points these right wing politicians from the states want to score points by demonizing a minority. >> ^Pprt:
I think the major distinction here is that mosques are known to NR hotbeds of Islamic fundamentalism all over the western world, from the Czech Republic to Australia.
Churches (minus one in particular I'm sure someone would point out were it not for these parentheses), as far as I am aware, have never been accused of recruiting paramilitary forces or plotting murder.
There's a reason noone would've objected to a Bhuddist temple... it's not prejudice, it's having your head out of the sand.

I think the major distinction here is that mosques are known to NR hotbeds of Islamic fundamentalism all over the western world, from the Czech Republic to Australia.

Churches (minus one in particular I'm sure someone would point out were it not for these parentheses), as far as I am aware, have never been accused of recruiting paramilitary forces or plotting murder.

There's a reason noone would've objected to a Bhuddist temple... it's not prejudice, it's having your head out of the sand.

Puzzling how the "cradle of civilization" is still as helpless as an infant.

Yeah I'm sure neither of these many times over millionaires aren't worried about the wage-lowering effect of immigration or being passed over because of affirmative action. I'm sure their high-rise apartments and private chauffeurs keep them grounded...

So apparently Turkey is in Europe now...

Ridiculous

Ridiculous tags longde...

I think a recent video from Seattle shows how a certain "minority community" tends to react when they interact with "the man".

>> ^longde:

^I don't think so. For poor/minority areas where cops are used to using lies and intimidation to harass the residents, they absolutely don't want people knowing their rights as expounded in this video. The fact is, if every citizen knew and used the advice on this video, the dirty cops of the world would get away with much less than they do.
As far as the so-called 'obvious' instructions go (i.e., be polite, calm, etc), it's hard to be polite and calm when you are the constant subject of harassment, and are treated with disrespect by those who are supposed to be serving you. Righteous indignation is hard to keep down. The cops encourage this attitude because it gives them that much more justification to ignore your rights.
The fact that cops can lie to you about the law and the consequences of your actions is not something they want the average Joe to know.

Being polite with law enforcement needs to be taught?

Mild to strong (aged) Gouda or Cheddar will do, @sillma.