[MrB]

never asked an Arab, "How do you like it here?"

Care to elaborate?
Or is the standard answer they give something like "this or that is so much better where I come from"?

[JimSEA]

Even 40 years ago, the Arab students ould tell you how immoral and decadent American society was. In fact, they would go to great lenths to explain the problems in herent in a "non-Muslim" society. Other international students would usually be thrilled to be here.

There were exceptions within the Muslim community, I had a couple of Iranian friends who, while remaining Muslim, liked the USA. One of these individuals I learned was killed in the revolution (an engineer working on a desalinization (sp?)plant). Of course, they were careful to distance themselves as Persians from the Arabs.

The Arabs which I met were all quite wealthy. (early 1960's)