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TrekkieMage · **Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:07 pm**

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I'm gonna guess we're in similar bio classes

Captain Patrick, I can't think of anything right now, sorry!

Arellia · **Tue Nov 14, 2006 12:28 am**

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Sam Kenobi · **Sat Nov 18, 2006 6:45 pm**

Does anyone know the clinical term for an Oedipus Complex or what a reverse-Electra complex is called (like one of a father to daughter instead of daughter to father)?

Ziona · **Sat Nov 18, 2006 7:18 pm**

I've always just known it as the Oedipus Complex and the Electra Complex in regards to psychoanalysis. I haven't known any other names.

TrekkieMage · **Sun Nov 19, 2006 2:50 pm**

Sam Kenobi · **Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:26 pm**

Yeah, that's what I thoughjt too, but I can't find either of them in the DSM-IV to cite it as a clinical disorder... I guess maybe it isn't quite a clinical disorder. I found a really great journal on it though, talking about how the Oedipus Complex shifts from Oedipus and Jocasta to Oedipus and Antigone.... which was really more the disorder I was trying to find out about. So... I'll just go with that.

Sam Kenobi · **Tue May 08, 2007 11:42 pm**

Does anyone know why immigrants frm Puerto Rico came to America? Mexicans came for jobs, Cubans came to escape Castro.... Puerto Ricans?

TrekkieMage · **Fri May 11, 2007 12:00 pm**

I don't know for sure, but I'd assume more opportuities. America has a higher GDP and poverty is less common, there are also more jobs. So probably just they wanted an overall better economic situation.

But again, it's just a guess looking at the overall economoic situation in South America.

L'ursa · **Sat May 12, 2007 11:10 am**

I agree with TrekkieMage.
Contrary to its name, after WW II Puerto Rico [rich port] was one of the poorest countries in the world, owing to a weak economy and extremely high birth rate.
Due to the country's peculiar political status* it is no problem for Puerto Ricans to emigrate to the US.
Every PR citizen owns full US-citizenship including an US passport => no greencard necessary for them => employers prefer them over other foreigners as there's far less red tape.

For more information on the subject see wikipedia entry on Puerto Rico

*Some claim it is actually US territory, others count it as an individual, yet associated state. There was a poll in 1951 about the political status, but as being an independent country was not a choice in that poll, it was not really a fair matter IMHO. People had as much of a choice as you'd have if a gangster asked you "would you prefer me to shoot or stab you?"
Disclaimer: I'm not implying that the US-government did or does consist of gangsters (at least not in a higher percentage than the governments of most other states

). I am merely using an example to illustrate how the (imo unfair) poll worked, giving them the choice between two variations of the same thing but depriving them from a real alternative