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friday, august 16
Bad culture

Pervez Iqbal, a taxi driver, explaining why he was sending his children back to Pakistan, as he drove me to Newark Airport yesterday. "It is very bad culture here. High school? So girls can get pregnant at 11 or 12 years old. And, if you raise a finger, they dial 911. They can come back to the United States, but when they are mature." My multiculturally sensitive self says: well, Pervez is no different from millions of other social conservatives in the US. Doesn't want his daughter sleeping around and ruining the family name. But I can't help but think that immigrants, especially to the big cities, should be made to sign some kind of waiver: I understand that my daughters may be sluts and my sons porn-obsessed drug addicts, and I will not hold the United States liable for the dissolution of my family and culture.


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