a must read blog..............From 'The Excavator'
By Saman Mohammadi
"We always hear about "those crazy Russians" and "those crazy Middle Easterners." Hollywood films are full of these stereotypes. Whenever a war in the Middle East breaks out or a massive terrorist attack takes place, the West's response is focused on psychology instead of politics. "Those people are just crazy, they'll never get it together, they've fought over land and religion for millennia."
The men of the East are rarely humanized. Only the men of the West are immortalized as heroic and noble. The Eastern man is demonized by the West because the West is perpetually at war with the East--Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Iranians, Arabs, Pakistanis, Afghans."
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