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Post Info TOPIC: big Obama fundraiser, now ambassador, is ruining the US embassy in Luxembourg


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RE: big Obama fundraiser, now ambassador, is ruining the US embassy in Luxembourg
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minority populations = all members are the same

majority populations = too many differences to generalize

got it

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Ok nba, we get it already. White culture: bad, all other culture: good.

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soccerguy315 wrote:

yes, I defined it in exactly the same way you defined black culture, only for some reason my definition is not appropriate, while yours is immeasurably accurate.




The standards for majority and minority cultures are different, since minority populations are usually small enough to have experienced some kind of collective identity, whereas majority populations tend to be a lot more diverse.

For example, there are lot of white people who love Obama. Why don't we consider lbieral white culture as THE white culture? If we did, then few people would say that Obama was antagonistic towards white culture.



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yes, I defined it in exactly the same way you defined black culture, only for some reason my definition is not appropriate, while yours is immeasurably accurate.

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soccerguy315 wrote:

probably Tom

nba... no I haven't, go back and read that huge thread.




I vaguely remember a laughable reply you gave that amounted to "white culture is what white people do", or something along those lines. I asked you to further refine that concept but you haven't been seen there since.



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probably Tom

nba... no I haven't, go back and read that huge thread.

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A rich person with an ego that purchased a political position I bet that never happened before. Isn't ambassador to Lux the standard place to hide these people?

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Yo Soccerguy, please define "white culture" for me. I've been waiting MONTHS for an answer and you've ducked me like Floyd Mayweather.

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SEATTLE – A superstar donor of President Barack Obama's last campaign who later became ambassador to Luxembourg said Saturday that she has filed a rebuttal to an internal State Department review that found her tenure to be a disaster.

The State Department report released Thursday said her 14 months in Luxembourg were fraught with personality conflicts, verbal abuse and questionable expenditures on travel, wine and liquor. It said things were so bad that some staff requested transfers to Iraq and Afghanistan.

The State Department report said Stroum stressed to embassy staffers "the importance she attaches to the perquisites of" being an ambassador. As such, she was particularly concerned about the state of the ambassador's residence, which was being renovated, it said.Embassy officials spent weeks trying to find her appropriate temporary housing, screening hundreds of properties. They found four that met her criteria, and she rejected all of them before finally settling on a residence.

The report also found that she inappropriately spent $2,400 on a trip to Switzerland; that the embassy bought $3,400 in liquor and wine to use up its entertainment budget even though such year-end sprees are barred; and that Stroum was reimbursed for buying a new queen-sized bed, even though she had been provided with a king-sized one.



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