While eager to send guns and money that allow the Palestinian cause to fester, most Arab neighbors prefer to hole them up in squalid refugee camps rather than allow them the freedom toassimilate and get on with their lives.
Where once government-run schools were seen as a means to provide the children of indigent families with education and vocational training (as well as toassimilate immigrant families), such tax-funded schools soon became the norm, with many people unable to remember or imagine alternatives.
The reader may be entertained, but can also lose faith in the seriousness of the work, and in most cases will find it hard toassimilate it into his own world, as one does with classic works.