-culture is constructed, other cultures seem “WIERD” to us

-children learn by active teaching = “WIERD” ; parents take active role

-teaching keeps you focused on one goal, doesn’t help w/ brain growth

-every book suggests that another book might give us a fuller picture (kgould’s post on the graphic novel Palestine)

-ckosarek: Ofed Grosbar’s “The Drama of the Suicide Terrorist”

western view: internal, personal, we would never die for a collectivist society, “private act”

eastern: collectivist, feel tied to culture

-Americans don’t have a unified culture to protect

-May not be the view from all of the western countries

-individual interviews, anecdotal

 I feel that Path to Paradise was insightful and allowed me to view “terrorists” in a different perspective, but I feel that Anat ‘s commentary that accompanied the interviews directed me to associate the bombers actions in a cause and effect type way. She illustrated the bombers as victims of their environments and circumstances to explain why they became suicide bombers and I do not feel that her depiction is necessarily accurate.