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2006-08-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

Arab Nationalism Run Rampant at Middlebury

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Posted by ryuge 2006-08-18 07:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 One of the summer interns in my office is a student at Middlebury (in Vermont). He is the scion of a wealthy extremely blue-blood WASP family in one of the old money enclaves just outside DC. His dad sailed with Ted Turner pre-CNN and the kid has spent his life going to the best schools and knowing the best people.

He's not in the Arabic school at MB, but he did lecture the office once on the glories of Robert McNamara's (!) documentary, The Fog of War. I'm afraid he's lost. :(

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-08-18 09:13|| 2006-08-18 09:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Most of the Lebanese-Americans I know will barely tolerate being called Arab because they see themselves as Phoenecians and differentiate themselves from Arabs. Frankly, they don't seem to like Lebanese Arabs (e.g. Moslems).

New Hampshire has two very prominent Lebanese politicians (Sununu and Shaheen) and neither are truly Arab or Muslim.

Middlebury may want to take note.

Posted by JDB 2006-08-18 17:31|| 2006-08-18 17:31|| Front Page Top

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