[lit-ideas] Re: Bawer
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:14:33 -0000
BB> Living in Europe, I gradually came to appreciate American virtues
BB> I'd always taken for granted, or even disdained-among them a
BB> lack of self-seriousness, a grasp of irony and self-deprecating humor,
BB>a friendly informality with strangers, an unashamed curiosity, an
BB>openness to new experience, an innate optimism, a willingness
BB>to think for oneself and speak one's mind and question the accepted
BB>way of doing things.
so unlike one's life here...
Lawrence, you say Bawer
>addresses at one point the benefits Muslims (including Islamists)
>can get from the various European nations.
>Britain was not exempt from his criticism:
is his argument that Muslims should not be entitled to the benefits received by
all other groups?
Judy Evans, Cardiff
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