Note the associations that different ethnicities have with different forms of transportation. 
    I'm half Irish, and in the collective memory of the Irish-Americans, travel by ship is mainly positive.  For all its difficulty, it was a journey by ship that liberated my Irish ancestors from famine and oppression in their homeland, and brought them to America.
    Ships are a dark presence in the collective memory of most African-Americans, because ships were what made possible the oceanic slav...
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Some directions on medicines and home health care products are intended to protect the health of the manufacturer, not the health of the consumer.  For example: the caution on the side of the Q-Tips box that says, "Do not insert into ear."  Come on.  Are you telling me they created that long probe-like implement so I can clean my earlobes?  Sure, they don't want people poking out their eardrums, but if consumers actually started following those instructions, Q-Tips' market would collapse.  It...
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