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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (37861)	4/4/2004 8:32:23 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794410

As for Patai's book, I do recall you suggested it. I checked it out of the library, skimmed it, and decided the reported research was much too meager to bear the weight of the assertions. I notice one or more of the Amazon reviewers drew the same conclusion. I don't think, as a methodological rule, either the notion of "culture" or the notion of "mind" gets you much explanatory purchase. Regardless of Patai's methodological strictures, which seemed to be minimal, or one's preference for different explanatory strategies, to use the concept of lack of gratitude in the Iraqi situation as a cultural trait of Arabs rather than at least look at the alternate explanation of antipathy to foreign occupation, is, at best, dismissive of full categories of human beings. We are definitely at an agree to disagree point, Nadine. Let's move on.