To angie re pansy's comment

Submitted by yasemin (Canada), Jun 28, 2008 at 16:58

You can readily see which posters have experienced the middle eastern culture and which women are totally naive. You sound incredulous that middle eastern people could hate americans - your naivety is pretty scary.

I vividly remember teaching a class one day ( in the middle east ) and as the subject was pollution, i made reference to north america being a major source of this problem, at which point one student, an older male, cried out Kill America !!! while shaking his fist at the map.

Angie wake up. Pansy knows exactly what she's talking about. And you need to go live there for a while. You won't be talking about the wonders of other cultures like some flower child hippy. You'll develop the edge that realism gives you after living over there. I know there's hatred everywhere but it's never more blatant than over there. I'm canadian so i spent my time trying to educate them about the side the media doesn't show them about americans. But i doubt it made any difference - they are heavily brainwashed.

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