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Ethnic diversity of U.S. troops puzzles Iraqis
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^
| Apr. 9, 2003 07:10 AM
| Ron Harris
Posted on 04/14/2003 8:32:52 AM PDT by Hoppean
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:21:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SOUTH OF BAGHDAD - The Marines were less than 48 hours into their invasion of Iraq when Pfc. Michael Lara of Raymondville, Texas., was first asked the question that he and some other Marines would get repeatedly from civilians.
Lara, 19, was standing guard in the turret of his Humvee manning a machine gun along the Shatt Al-Basra bridge in southern Iraq when an old man and his two sons asked permission to pass across the strategic checkpoint.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: diversity; ethnic; iraq; iraqis; meltingpot; race; troops; war
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Many Americans at home have the same difficulty telling who's who. :)
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04/14/2003 8:32:52 AM PDT
by
Hoppean
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posted on
04/14/2003 8:35:00 AM PDT
by
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To: MeeknMing; Luis Gonzalez; Bella_Bru
no lie! I've seen this on FR alone.
:)
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posted on
04/14/2003 8:37:04 AM PDT
by
TxBec
(Tag! You're it!)
To: Hoppean
Apparently they have a gender ID problem too. I read this morning that Shoshanna wasn't pegged for being a woman until the captors started removing her chemical suit.
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posted on
04/14/2003 8:37:30 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(Bumperootus!)
To: Hoppean
This reminds me of when American troops first occupied Japan in 1945. The Japanese couldn't understand the black troops. The black military even started a joke telling the Japanese that they were specially bred Americans, trained for night fighting. And the Japanese often believed it!
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posted on
04/14/2003 8:37:39 AM PDT
by
xJones
(I)
To: Hoppean
I don't...We are all Americans. ;)
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posted on
04/14/2003 8:38:45 AM PDT
by
EricT.
To: Hoppean
America!!! The REAL United Nations!!!
My family is "redneck" as far back as we can find and I am married to a first generation American of Puerto Rican heritage. They sure make'em beautiful down there!!!
To: Hoppean
Considering how the tightly the regime controlled the country, and how Americans have been characterized in general on Iraqi TV, I doubt that most Iraqis have ever seen a Hispanic or Filipino before, which makes the disbelief understandable. Fairly amazing in this day of instant communications, though.
To: Hoppean
What is an American?
We are the oppressed, the poor, the dregs of the world who were sent to a new land. We are the Mutts of Europe, the Dregs of Africa, the oppressed of Arabia and Asia. We are the throw aways that the rest of the world had no use for.
We came to this country and built a force for Freedom under God that no man or Government on Earth can Conquer.
That is what an American is.
Semper Fi
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posted on
04/14/2003 8:52:18 AM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(Another Marine Reporting Sir, I've served my time in Hell)
To: Onelifetogive
Same here! I am of a 57 variety ethenic(sp) background that is married to a Polynesian/Brit. My younger son could be ID'd as someone from the Middle East, Mexico, French, Italian, PR, Spain, Turkey, etc.
We went to Tahiti when he was a baby, everyone wanted to know why an American woman (with glow in the dark skin) had a Tahitian baby. My husband looks Brit like his dad so many people think that our son is adopted.
People are so nosy, so it makes for some humorous questions
being asked.
To: Onelifetogive
first generation American of Puerto Rican heritagePuerto Ricans have been Americans for a lot longer than one generation.
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:06:49 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
("Those who know, don't talk. Those who talk, don't know." (I'm in the 2nd group.))
To: xJones
very cool - first time I've ever heard that...
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:10:52 AM PDT
by
Amalie
(Its STILL too dangerous to vote Democratic...)
To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
" My younger son could be ID'd as someone from the Middle East, Mexico, French, Italian, PR, Spain, Turkey, etc. " LOL! We've got a 5 m/o that's a mess as well. English, Chinese, American Indian, Scotch/Irish, Cambodian, and French.
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:13:19 AM PDT
by
elfman2
To: Hoppean
And the young corporal who put the flag on the falling status was born in Burma ... moved to the US when he was one week old.
To: elfman2
America IS the promised land.
To: Hoppean
Many Americans at home have the same difficulty telling who's who. Yes, the Left has great difficulty with enemy recognition.
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:19:17 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(Is he dead yet?)
To: Hoppean
Bump
To: Hoppean
"...we're U.S., we're all U.S."
Amen to that - what a great country, the most ethnically diverse nation in history, but "...we're U.S., we're all U.S."
God (continue to) Bless America !!
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:24:24 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is a war room".)
To: Hoppean
It is the people who give their nationality without a hyphen that made this nation great. Our strenght was never from the lie of "diversity".
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posted on
04/14/2003 9:24:55 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: BunnySlippers
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posted on
04/14/2003 10:06:37 AM PDT
by
Reeses
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