Key Quotes Reluctant Fundamentalist Flashcards

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Changez’s Americanised perspective?

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“Did not think myself Pakistani but as an Underwood Samson trainee.”

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Prejudices about Pakistanis? (Two)

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“Fucking Arab.”

“You should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists.”

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Other prejudices?

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“I was well liked as an exotic acquaintance.”

“It was your bearing that allowed me to identify you.”

“Do not be frightened by my beard, I am a lover of America.”

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Erica’s infatuation with otherness?

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“So what’s Pakistan like?”

“I love when you talk about where you come from… you become alive.”

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Exclusiveness of America? (Two)

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“I realised I was being ushered into an insider’s world.”

“I was in four and a half years, never and American; I was immediately a New Yorker.”

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Deterioration of Erica? (Two)

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=> “When I first saw Erica… so stunningly regal she was.”

=> “A diminished Erica, not the vivid confident woman I knew but a pale, nervous creature who could almost have been a stranger.”

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American dream? / Reality? (Three)

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“Invited into the ranks of meritocracy.”

“The economy’s an animal.”

“I was a modern-day janissary, a servant of the American Empire.”

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Princeton? Experience and architecture? (Three)

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=> “Princeton inspired in me the feeling that my life was a film in which I was the star and everything was possible.”

=> “This is a beautiful campus.”
=> “Younger” BUT “Acid treatment and ingenious stonemasonry look older.”

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Other architecture?

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=> “Surely New York by night must be one of the greatest sights in the world.”

=> “Yes Manilla had its slums… but Manilla’s glittering skyline and walled enclaves for the ultra rich were unlike anything I had seen in Pakistan.”

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