| American men who settle into | | | | ourselves and our children hopefully see a more unified |
| intercultural relationships are of a certain type. Some | | | | parental front. |
| distinct undercurrent exists in our personalities. In a | | | | It is of course our very |
| sense we are of stripped identity. Or maybe a more | | | | weaknesses that open us up to the dynamic disruptive |
| accurate description is that we have never been fully | | | | gyrations that intercultural relationships entail. For we |
| clothed to begin with. | | | | are the ones who are predetermined to learn those |
| We have generally few strong | | | | few Arabic phrases for when we should meet a pitied |
| values and are prone to succumb to other more well | | | | Palestinian exile. We are the ones who offer the |
| defined individuals, namely of strong willed captivating | | | | graceless and toadying bow to a Japanese that we |
| women. It is as if we are trying to fill our lives. We are | | | | encounter at a social, when he should be the one who |
| often survivors of parents with weak personalities, | | | | first reaches out his right hand in greeting since he is in |
| who made minimal or no impact on our own | | | | our country. We are the ones who just seem to have |
| resonance. So we are pretenders and inventors, often | | | | that pre-programmed sense of guilt in general about |
| rendering grander definitions of ourselves than really | | | | being "a white American male." |
| exist. | | | | So here we are. Why not fall in |
| As we clash more often with our | | | | love with a domineering foreign woman? It is what we |
| counterparts, we are sometimes prone to sudden | | | | have been working our whole lives to build up to. In |
| defensive outbursts. Eventually we realize that we | | | | this sense we are the poster boys for American |
| have been diminished, and in the end succumb for the | | | | post-modern reinvention. |
| greater good of all. In our defeat we recreate | | | | |