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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: NightOwl who wrote (38557)4/8/2004 7:30:23 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (3) of 793912
 
there are simply too many stupid people in the ME.

The constant refrain I am reading, overt and covert, is that the individual ME people can be great, but as a society they stink. People go over there with good intentions and come back "racists." It is difficult to get a reading on this because it goes to "Folk wisdom" vs "PC."

Our people who are supposed to be trained to research and discuss this type of problem won't approach it that way. They recoil from the "racism" and "orientalism" involved.

We have circled around it here trying to define it, and got nowhere.
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