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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
How much could could one have made with an Arabic major in the last 20 years?)
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My (now 31) daughter went off to college- the only good advice I ever gave her- study Mandarin or Arabic- and she took up Arabic. She loved it- but, at least in Michigan, it was challenging. You know the Monty Python skit about an intro to Italian class full of I-ties? ("Why would I say I'm from Rome, when i was born in Naples?") That was the class.
But she didn't stick to it. The only thing the ever came of it was a fun story. We were at an art fair. This otherwise mundane artist had painted one neat thing. An American flag with the Pledge painted over it in Arabic. I only know it was the pledge because of the kid.
The artist had apparently been beat up by the yokels all day. She denied it was the pledge. She denied she had put the word for God on it. Deny deny deny.
