As a side note to Lawrence of Arabia. In his book Scott Anderson, based on military documents. T. E. Lawrence, a British officer in WWI fought the Ottomans on the side of Arab Tribes. Lawrence documents that the Arab tribes that lived there were violently opposed to each other; none were Palestinians and alliances between Arab Tribes were made and broken in a matter of a blink of an eye. The normal Tribal behavior.
This is an interesting article that reminds me of the thirteen summers ( from 2007 to 2019) I spent in Croydon : as a French teacher of the English language, I used to teach classes of French students preparing for their difficult entrance examinations to engineering schools. The boys and girls as well as myself stayed with local familles in the suburbs surrounding Croydon. The venue for the lessons was Croydon College : the first years my classroom was in a grim concrete building , but the latter years the working I was upgraded to the newly restored main building where the facilities were much more pleasant to work in.
So, as you can see, I also have some personal connection with your hometown.
It follows that I witnessed the same phenomenon myself (described here by the author). I was born on October 9, 1953 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. James Cameron was born there, too, just 9 months later, on August 1954. Our dads worked for the same town employer, The Spruce Falls Power & Paper Company (maker of Kleenex, and pressed paper for The New York Times, if I'm not hallucinating). Cameron became a billionaire movie-maker... and I'm worth about $23, at the very most.
As a side note to Lawrence of Arabia. In his book Scott Anderson, based on military documents. T. E. Lawrence, a British officer in WWI fought the Ottomans on the side of Arab Tribes. Lawrence documents that the Arab tribes that lived there were violently opposed to each other; none were Palestinians and alliances between Arab Tribes were made and broken in a matter of a blink of an eye. The normal Tribal behavior.
This is an interesting article that reminds me of the thirteen summers ( from 2007 to 2019) I spent in Croydon : as a French teacher of the English language, I used to teach classes of French students preparing for their difficult entrance examinations to engineering schools. The boys and girls as well as myself stayed with local familles in the suburbs surrounding Croydon. The venue for the lessons was Croydon College : the first years my classroom was in a grim concrete building , but the latter years the working I was upgraded to the newly restored main building where the facilities were much more pleasant to work in.
So, as you can see, I also have some personal connection with your hometown.
Jean-Bernard
I take it that the Muslims have not, yet, invaded that neighborhood?
It follows that I witnessed the same phenomenon myself (described here by the author). I was born on October 9, 1953 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. James Cameron was born there, too, just 9 months later, on August 1954. Our dads worked for the same town employer, The Spruce Falls Power & Paper Company (maker of Kleenex, and pressed paper for The New York Times, if I'm not hallucinating). Cameron became a billionaire movie-maker... and I'm worth about $23, at the very most.
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/when-collegiality-becomes-censorship