Self deportation

Manic depression was given a new name. Now it's bipolar disorder . The ex-Czech Republic became Czechia. Low self-esteem should also be renamed. It is a clunky, antiquated, circuitous phrase that dilutes, thus dismisses, the crippling and sometimes lethal pain that it describes. With two leapfrogging L and S sounds, "low self-esteem" twists tongues — daring speakers not to slur. Attaching a tripwirey term to a condition whose afflicted live in fear of looking and sounding ridiculous is cruel: an inadvertent insult with a built-in trick. Asking those of us with low self-esteem to say we have low self-esteem — to claim it as our shared problem or plague — is like asking chefs to say not "I am a chef" but "I am an alimentwright" or "I am a khhhrkkk." Coined by psychologist/philosopher William James in 1890, the term "self-esteem" was popularized in the 1960s by sociologist Morris Rosenberg, whose Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale comprises ten statements such as "On the … [Read more...] about Low Self-Esteem Needs a New Name

Source: Photo by Gage Walker on Unsplash Living with self- shame is like having a 24-hour critical inside your head, constantly judging, labeling, and humiliating you. That toxic self-shaming voice seeks to limit you, hold you back, and defer growth. Left unchecked, it eats away at your self-worth , undermines your confidence , and can morph into crippling anxiety that destroys any chance of lasting happiness . Where does self-shaming come from? How did it gain so much power over you? Derek’s Battle With Self-Shame Derek, a young man in one of my weekly therapy groups talked about his crippling social fears. Tears trickled down his cheeks as he admitted, “I feel so much shame all the time.” “About what?” a group member asked. “My weight, my voice, the way I walk, how people look at me.” He paused and wiped his face with the sleeve of his shirt. “I guess I feel shame about being me.” Derek had been bullied at school, neglected by his family, and mocked … [Read more...] about The Destructive Voice of Self-Shame and How to Break Free

The logo of ByteDance, the company that owns the short video app TikTok or Douyin, is seen at its office in Beijing on July 7, 2020. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING — Four Chinese entrepreneurs, three from internet companies and one from the education field, ranked in the top 10 of self-made billionaires under 40 around the globe, as Hurun Research Institute released its Global U40 Self-Made Billionaires 2021 list today in Shanghai. Two new faces appeared in the list, as the threshold for top 10 nominees is 84 billion yuan ($12.82 billion), 2.5 times that of last year. Mark Zuckerberg, 36, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook, topped the list for the sixth consecutive year, with personal wealth of 653 billion yuan, 60 billion yuan more than last year. Zhang Yiming, 38, founder of internet company ByteDance, which owns short video app TikTok or Douyin, jumped one spot to second place with personal wealth of 350 billion yuan, a 250 billion yuan increase from a year earlier. Su … [Read more...] about 4 Chinese among top 10 self-made billionaires under 40

A conman who scammed American wine connoisseurs out of millions of dollars by selling them counterfeit booze has been deported back to his native Indonesia, US immigration officials said on Tuesday. Rudy Kurniawan was deported last week on a commercial flight from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to Tangerang City, Bann, Indonesia. It comes after he served seven years in prison following his 2013 conviction for fraud. A statement by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement said Kurniawan was "a public safety threat because of his aggravated felony conviction." Some of the wine featured as evidence in Kurniawan's trial in New York in 2013 The 44-year-old raked in vast amounts of money by selling purportedly rare wines that were actually old bottles of wine mixed together.at his home in Los Angeles. Kurniawan came to the United States on a student visa in the 1990s, but illegally overstayed after failing to claim political asylum. Prosecutors said money from the … [Read more...] about Fake booze! US deports fraudster over fine wine scam

close Video FOX reporter Mike Tobin: Some rioters identified themselves as Antifa Members of the violent far-left activist group Antifa identified themselves to a Fox News reporter who was on scene in Brooklyn Center, Minn., ahead of another night of unrest following the police-involved shooting of a motorist on Sunday. Correspondent Mike Tobin joined "The Ingraham Angle" to give the latest from the scene where throngs of protesters and law enforcement faced off following the reportedly accidental shooting death of Daunte Wright, 20, by now-resigned Officer Kimberly Potter. Potter has said she meant to reach for her taser instead of her gun while involved in an altercation with Wright at his car. Tobin, who was relocating to another part of the town at the time, spoke to Ingraham from inside a vehicle. "I can tell you this. The makeup of the population out here certainly changed tonight. I think Sunday night it was all about the … [Read more...] about Self-identified Antifa members arrive in Twin Cities area as Brooklyn Center protests continue