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Old 01-08-2015, 03:39 PM   #1
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All Americans should be forced to travel around the world at least once, get to know some other people, not just through the lens of the news.
I don't know about 'forced', but, I agree in theory.

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Old 01-08-2015, 03:49 PM   #2
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness...
And vice versa.
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Old 01-08-2015, 03:54 PM   #3
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Old 01-08-2015, 07:57 PM   #4
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NPR is very diligent about referring to ISIS as "the so-called Islamic state."

I wonder if their style code would allow for the "so-called" to get added to more things, i.e. "al-Qaeada, a group of so-called Muslim terrorists."

Altho in retrospect they're probably qualifying the word 'state', not 'Islamic.'
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