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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was not at all unusual where I grew up (small town, Midwest, corn fields, nothing much to do). There were always several really pregnant girls walking around my high school. They weren't shunned or anything. The high school faced reality and added a baby care class for the girls and boys who were soon to be parents.  The babies could be brought in for that period and the soon to be parents could practice diaper changes and such.

I'm sure some of the girls opted for homeschool but that certainly wasn't because they weren't accepted. As far as I know, those pregnant classmates are generally doing fine now, 20 years later.[/quote]

this is why we need to bring back shame.  There is no reason for a teenager to get pregnant these days.[/quote]

SHAME?

When did shame become a form a birth control?[/quote]

I'm Asian and honestly think some non-Asian Americans could use some shame. Stigma can be purposeful for keeping young people on the straight and narrow. There's a reason why Asians don't have many of the social problems that plague other races. [/quote]

[b]You must have never been to Thailand before[/b].[/quote]

I’m Thai and find this statement highly insulting.  Teen pregnancies amongst educated, middle/upper middle class girls are almost unheard of because being proper and well behaved is expected.  If you’re talking rural village girls, that’s an entirely different thing.  And all the girls in the sex trade are rural village girls.[/quote]

NP here.  It's okay to say non-Asian Americans could use some shame, but not okay to in turn point out the Asian cultures where the sex trade and sexual exploitation are rampant.  Double standard much?  It's not just in Thailand- look at the girls working the massage parlors (hint- they're mostly Asian).  Just saying there is plenty of shame to go around all races/cultures where promiscuity and sexual misconduct are concerned. Asians aren't excluded. [b] To suggest otherwise, then be insulted by PP's comment is ignorant and racist.[/b][/quote]

YOU sound ignorant and racist.  You don’t know ANYTHING about the culture.  Girls that end up in the sex trade come from poverty.  There is plenty of shame in it, but I can garuntee that the majority of them end up in these situations because they have very little options.  Most rural children drop out of school by 8th grade to work.  Some girls go to the city to work as maids (my uncle at one point had a 15 year old village girl working for him).  Many of them get tricked into prostitution. UGH.  I hate that Thailand and Thai women have such a terrible reputation, and that the country isn’t really doing anything about it, but you can’t go around making blanket statements about a country and it’s people without knowing anything about it.  THAT is racist and ignorant.  
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