Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Rules For the rest of the Site also accessible on the sidebar.
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I can only vent this here.
I realize Houston has no inherent real culture. It's too urban to be connected to actual Texas cowboy culture. It doesn't have a strong Spanish history like San Antonio. But it's really upsetting that because of that the default culture of Houston is modern African American. I don't really like that this city I live in is represented by "slabs" "Swangas" and the crappiest iterations of rap music in the world (I know some of you hate rap but if you think you hate rap already....you haven't heard Houston rap it's absolutely awful)
It really tells you what honestly a farce the liberal Concept of diversity is. Houston is diverse. It has a booming Asian population. It has plenty of Arabs because of the oil and gas industry. It also has a good enough amount of Caucasians between whites and Hispanics..
Yet the entire outward facing and dominant culture is one specific brand of ghetto mentality black. There's literally a store themed around grape soda with cough syrup in it.
Just needed to vent the only place I could. Those of you who know me know how I feel about skincolor tribalism. I don't want Houston to be lily white Stepford Wives wasp nightmare...I'd be incredibly depressed if Chinatown went away and there weren't good shawarma or Mexican places. But the fourth biggest city in the US should not be some cringe ghetto joke.