8 Year Old Rape Victim Abandoned by her Family

[IDrinkaRum]

At least no one is blaming me for being a bad influence on the polar bears.

As for the "Under God" part of the Pledge of Allegiance, it was added in response to the rise of Communism and their "Godless Society". Don't forget - the Communists have no religion. (As Marx and Engels argue in The Communist Manifesto, religion is bad because it makes people "unequal" to each other and in Communism, everyone is equal). That was a culture thing, not a religion thing in my eyes.

[anriana]

Maybe, just maybe, different aspects of culture shift at different rates, and need to be observed independently of the whole to see the progression, but can still be taken as part of the whole, and passed on to each generation, despite the disparate nature of the period of shifts.

Maybe. Just maybe.

[BlaqueKatt]

That is the opposite of what blaquekatt said.

please don't put words into my mouth-or deliberately take things out of context just to argue.

To quote myself

"another key difference between the two is change-religion does not change culture does."

the rest was examples I pulled off the top of my head(there are tons more changes I could list but that would probably take 50 or more pages to list every single change over the last 200 years-that's what history textbooks are for actually) -because you were insistent that culture=religion

So culture changes every ten years, or culture can't change in over 50 years?

200 years, 100 years, 50 years, 20 years, 10 years-that's definatly not "every ten years" as you are claiming I said.

[Flyndaran]

Parts of a national culture, ie subcultures can and do change within years.
Look at when Dungeons and Dragons first came out in the seventies.
Look at when World Of Warcraft the MMORPG came out.

[anriana]

please don't put words into my mouth-or deliberately take things out of context just to argue.

Who would want to argue on this site.

[BlaqueKatt]

Who would want to argue on this site.

Um most of us like to argue what was actually said/typed-not make things up or misquote/misrepresent/take out of context. Bad form and all.

[lordlundar]

But I thought polar bears drank coca-cola

You mean the TV lied to me

Well I know one that drinks (well, practically inhales) 'Dew.

[violetyoshi]

She is now in custody of CPS. The story is getting nationwide coverage and people are of course venting their outrage on blogs and other opinion sites.

I am interested to see what will happen. I am sure the family will receive death threats and other such stuff.

I don't understand the outrage. The girl is better off with CPS, then with a culturally backwards family, who believes that the victimization of an 8 year old is a matter of shame.