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My Terrorism Fear Factor - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 7th Oct, 2006 - 12:59pm
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My Terrorism Fear Factor
My Terrorism Fear Factor
What is your Terrorism Fear Factor? Are you really afraid or do you live life normally? Take the personality test and find out!
My Terrorism Fear Factor
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I got the following:
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| Fearful - I try to stay informed about the latest issues around me. If Osama Bin Laden says something I do not take it like a joke. |
You bet, when he speaks I do not take it like a joke at all...
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| Fearful - I try to stay informed about the latest issues around me. If Osama Bin Laden says something I do not take it like a joke. |
Hmm. There weren't enough options for several of the questions. Too black and white.
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Post Date: 7th Oct, 2006 - 12:58am / Post ID: #
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Some of the questions have too vague of descriptions. For instance:
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| On a bus an arab boy boards with a bulky coat, the first thought that comes to your mind is... He is carrying a bomb! or He is eating too much! |
The way I think, if the coat doesn't fit the man, it's suspect, no matter his race, but if the guy has a few chins and a bulky coat, I'm gonna think he's eating too much.
My Terrorism Fear Factor
"Fearful - I try to stay informed about the latest issues around me. If Osama Bin Laden says something I do not take it like a joke."
I wouldn't call this fearful but rather "alert."
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Post Date: 7th Oct, 2006 - 12:33pm / Post ID: #
My Terrorism Fear Factor
I think there were only two possible answers you could have gotten for a test like that... either you're terrified or you're not paying attention.
What if I do pay attention, keep myself informed, but with a healthy mistrust of the accuracy of popular media, which tends to exaggerate the news, causing situations like the furor over the Pope's speech recently (it was quoted by the media so far out of context that I believe they should be held responsible for the aftermath).
Can you imagine a world where journalists are held legally accountable for their inaccuracies and/or deliberate misrepresentation(s) of the truth?
At any rate, my result was:
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| Denial or Carefree - You never did take on the news much in the past and do not intend to take it on now either. You live life at your pace and do not wait for others to tell you how to live it even if it is the government or a terrorist. |
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Like Trinichic, I came upo in denial or carefree. I beg to differ! I pay attention to what is going on around me, but don't judge everything with suspicion or paranoia unless there is additional visual or other information to add to the suspicion. An Arab-American is an American. After the bombing of the GI club in Germany in the 80s, did everyone look at German Americans with suspicion? No, because we can't tell. So, since we can tell people of Middle-Eastern look from European and Oriental and Black, etc., we have an easy target to distrust, even if they wind up being Greek, or Turkish or Israeli.
The Muslim religion is a religion of peace, and you can have wackos in every religion. Look at Waco, Texas, Jim Jones, or the standoff at the farm in Eastern Montana. Plus lots of other incidents of terrorism in this country.
I will be vigilant, but not paranoid or predjudiced, thank you.
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