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To: JohnM who wrote (37890)	4/4/2004 10:25:17 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794410

Regardless of Patai's methodological strictures, which seemed to be minimal Patai is an anthropologist of considerable fame, and his book has been continuously in print for thirty years, and he has been praised by many scholars, but never mind. It's clear that you won't give the time of day to anyone who uses the notion of culture. You refuse to see the forest for the trees. 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 A entirely false dichotomy, and a shabby argument. I was using culture as ONE VARIABLE that helps how someone reacts to a foreign occupation. If you remove such an obvious and important variable from your calculations, you have just made yourself stupid. Now you literally CANNOT notice how a an Arab Muslim population might react differently to the same stimuli, the same occupation, as say, an Assyrian Christian population.