Fashion Week

Do you know what happened this past week? Only one of the biggest events in New York City: Fashion Week. For one week, all the hip designers show off their latest styles. They show off what they think the "in look" will be. The in look for who? When I searched "fashion week 2008 new york" I came across about 9.7 million webpages. One of the websites that I clicked on(http://www.wwd.com/fashion-season-microsite/spring-ready-to-wear-2009/new-york/review) showed me pictures of some of the hottest looks from Fashion Week. One of the dresses that they showed starts at the top of the dress with a light tan color and the color ends up at black on the bottom of the dress. The top is very low cut and there is a fabric flower that looks to be the size of my head around the left hip area. This dress was seen at the 4xF show. On the website it is described as, "...the best look in the show — Magalis Garcia’s earthy, hand-dyed chiffon dress with a burlap and twig clutch." How was this dress the best dress of the show? I really have no answer for that. How many of these dresses do they sell? I can't see them selling more than five. After all, what kind of socialite wants to be seen wearing the same dress as someone else. Who would wear this dress in real life? Women who want to be known as women who can afford such "high class" articles of clothing. It seems like most of the time many people are too concerned with the name of the brand then the actual clothes. What makes a person, their personality or the clothes that they wear?

Wanting To Live In A Sovereign Land

On Statehood Day, an event happened that shocked some people. A group of people calling themselves The Kingdom of Hawaii, Nation lead by their self proclaimed king Akahi Nui stormed Iolani Palace and took over (http://starbulletin.com/2008/08/16/news/story01.html). They chained the gates shut, broke into the palace, and allegedly assaulted a palace worker. They held the palace but then police came and arrested members of the group. Iolani Palace stayed closed for a couple days after to asses any possible damage. This event really caught my attention. Why did these people feel like they needed to take such drastic action to prove their point? A different Hawaiian sovereignty group has been occupying a portion of land at Iolani Palace for months (they file for permits to be on the land). I guess they do it because they feel it best represents their identity. That this is the only option that's left. That the people legally occupying the land at the palace are conforming to this other government. The very same government that took over their lands, that changed their society, that turned their people away from the old ways. Some would argue that while what the United States and Annexationists did was wrong, it all worked out for the best and we can never go back to the ways of Hawaii as it's own nation. Obviously this group doesn't feel this way.

How much does someone's ethnicity's shape their lives?
Are some ethnic groups looked down upon because of things that have happened in the past? Do these events keep people of that certain race from getting a job, or being accepted by other people?
Does a wrong-doing of the past justify a wrong-doing of the opposite party in the present? Or just the past just be left as the past?