I don't think you're quite getting the scale of provincial bigotry. It's not just this one town. It's every small town, all over the world. Provincial Syrians a

I don't think you're quite getting the scale of provincial bigotry. It's not just this one town. It's every small town, all over the world. Provincial Syrians are just as bigoted towards Americans as provincial Americans are towards Syrians. We think of nationalism as being inflicted on us by the media, but it's not. We inflict it on ourselves, as a natural result of our natural desire to be with others like us. In fact, you're just expressing a kind of bigotry against provincial people with this response. It takes care and the desire to rise above it. You can't fix hate with hate.