Sipping the Orientalist’s Kool-Aid: The homogenization of Arabs and Palestinians
There is one joke my father loves to quote. Playwright George Branden Shaw once said, “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” Yet, for the most part, Americans and Britons have little to no trouble understanding each other, in contrast to Arabs. The stark distinctions between dialects signify stark distinctions in culture as well. Arab culture is not one culture; it’s a conglomerate of multiple different cultures and peoples.
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