She, reading an email from an online friend who is Greece: My friend from Greece. *sigh* We get along so great, but there are some things that just upset both of us.
He, listening to her, rather used to the prattle but relieved because it breaks up the boredom of the day, says, "Oh?"
She: "She's very opinionated. And you know? Greeks don't always like America. Some of them hate America."
He: "Oh certainly." He roots around in his head for a reason why this is so, some bit of world history class or something he might have read in the news.
He, again: "Oh, in that part of the world you can't take it for granted that they love the US. And Greece has a large communist presence. Communists run for office there pretty regularly."
It was such a classic conversation. Communist = America hater. Muslims can break out of that a bit, if they just become American. heh.
At 01:42 PM 9/27/2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Ok, Americans don't think too highly of Moslems or Mormons. But they
>think even less highly of atheists!
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><http://pewresearch.org/pubs/602/public-expresses-mixed-views-of-
>islam-mormonism>
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>Scroll down to table at bottom for a full view; here are the highlights:
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>favorable opinion of
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>Jews 76%
>Catholics 76
>Evangelical Christians 60
>Mormons 53
>Muslim Americans 53
>Muslims 43
>atheists 35
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