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I'm not talking about the average American or the average westerner. Most of them are cheerfully ignorant and also mostly welcoming and curious, just like the rest of the planet, and that is just fine. It is the academics who carry a pronounced bias, which is mostly the result of not bothering to visit the places concerned, or not talking to enough people. Which is what I said in the first place.

As far as the narrative is concerned, the main problems are the parts which deal with the motivations of the actors involved. The writer just basically goes about it as if writing a novel divorced from the facts and is just irresponsible.