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You can be a polish american, or an arab american, or a greek american but you can't be english american. why not?

-Christopher Hitchens

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You can be a polish american, or an arab american, or a greek american but you can't be english american. why not?

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I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an english public school. here at least one cannot say that english ‘education’ fails to do its job. you forget your latin and greek within a few months of leaving school — i studied greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, i cannot even repeat the greek alphabet — but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.

Recall that the united nations commissioned arab scholars and analysts to publish the arab human development report. what causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of 22 arab states, covering nearly 300 million people? their conclusion? of all world regions, the arab countries scored the lowest in freedom, media independence, civil liberties, political process and political rights.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the polish achievement, the polish genius.

Somebody has to go polish the stars, they're looking a little bit dull. somebody has to go polish the stars, for the eagles and starlings and gulls have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, they say they want new ones we cannot afford. so please get your rags and your polishing jars, somebody has to go polish the stars.

I'm from a lebanese-american family. and i've been had lot of contacts and - with arab-american community, especially arab-american filmmakers and actors and so forth. it's a community that, a minority that really hasn't been heard from enough. and so many of the stories that are told about arab-americans these days are just negative portrayals in the news, but also in television and film. so we're - we set out to try and offset some of those stereotypes.

ِan offer you can't refuse.

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