On Fri, 16 May 2008 18:49:43 -0500, Mueen Nawaz wrote:

> 	I'd just say that's fairly judgmental. I knew a Turkish person 
who came
> and spent time in the US. He would frequent the church and play a lot
> with the kids there. At some point he was simply told he was unwelcome.
> His behavior with the kids was "alarming" for them and they were worried
> he was/would be a child molester. Of course, his behavior was "standard"
> where he came from.
> 
> 	These things just aren't as obvious as they seem.

Well, in the instance I outlined, it's a family that we had interacted 
with on a more or less daily basis.

And of course it is/was fairly judgmental - he's not a kid that we only 
saw occasionally - he was at our house nearly every day at lunchtime 
(living a couple doors down from the school - a private school - afforded 
that opportunity).

Jim

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