Americans Abducted, Robbed And Beaten In Peru

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Yes, that is one side of the story. It sounds like a horrific experience, but there was probably more going on than that, which is not in any way to excuse the violence, but just to suggest, that we don't really know the whole story. Most likely some pretty awful cultural and linguistic miscommunication got way out of hand and the reaction by the people in Pallca, unfortunately, was violence and mistreatment. http://chichalimona.blogspot.com/

1-08-2013 @ 10:03PM

Bob said...

I read your blog entry but don't have time to respond fully. All I have time to say is that you've presented a defense of violence as a reasonable response to "miscommunication" based on generalizations and 3rd world sterotypes of "travelling" Americans, and inferences that the Wolfroms instigated the violence. by their ignorance.
If my community in the US did this, would you feel the same? I doubt it.

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