[lbo-talk] Re: Particularly Humiliating in "Arab Culture"?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed May 19 14:48:44 PDT 2004


Doug wrote:


>Isn't this a story of how two cultures - both deeply religious and
>anxious about sexuality - are meeting in explosive ways?

Presumably, you are amongst the least religious and sexually anxious Americans. Imagine that you are subjected (by a foreign military which have the power of life and death over you) to the same treatment to which Iraqi detainees were subjected. Would you find yourself less degraded and traumatized than they were? -- Yoshie

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