It is not Islam that is the threat, he writes, but Islam deracinated by poverty, war and social and economic displacement, and finding its strength and justification in a Manichaean view of history.
22.
To Jews from New York, Southern California seems deracinated-- the only place, Woody Allen complained in " Annie Hall, " where Santa Claus gets sunstroke-- and Northern California even more foreign.
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Chamberlain frequently wrote to an appreciative and admiring Wilhelm telling him that it was only the noble " German spirit " which was saving the world from being destroyed by a " deracinated Yankee-Anglo-Jewish materialism ".
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At first, it seems a perfect habitat for the ironical, deracinated Lorimer, who listens to African pop music, drinks cappuccino and reinvents himself for each social, business and romantic encounter by subtle alterations in his mode of dress.
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And even Rothko and company came, in a sense despite themselves, and directly because of their success, to represent Jewishness, or Jewish intellectualism, in the popular imagination : that is, Jewishness in art came to be associated with its own absence, with a deracinated formalism.
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Times were hard enough, but the Gays were not complainers and despised the deracinated German immigrants they called " Byunskis " because they so often said " Bei uns in Deutschland war alles besser " ( " At home in Germany everything was better " ).
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In retrospect, being sent far from the Middle East ( Egypt ) he viewed as a parental decision much influenced by the prospects of deracinated people, like us [ the Palestinians ], being so uncertain that it would be best to send me as far away as possible .
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Many of these less-wealthy Copies become completely deracinated from their former lives and from world events, or else become " Witnesses ", who spend their time observing ( at considerable time lapse ) world events unfold, at the cost of any meaningful relationships with their fellow Copies.
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It soon becomes clear, however, that what's being sold here isn't brew, but a deracinated fantasy of heroism, one in which firehouse camaraderie and spectacular, prime-time-ready rescues invariably trump the ordinary courage of family life, especially on working-class salaries.
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After the first world war, times and tastes changed even within this tiny section of society, and it was no longer imperative for colonial officers and deracinated Indians to exhibit interest or knowledge of the opera, or similar cultural markers, to establish that they belonged to the " ton ."
