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		<title>Foreign Service, Part 1 of Many</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my post-undergrad life is starting to take shape. Partly as a result of this e-mail I received last week: Congratulations! The scores you achieved on your Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) qualify you for the next step of the Foreign &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/foreign-service-part-1-of-many/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=80&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everyday Orientalism: Ke$ha&#8217;s &#8220;Take it Off&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first post in what will become a recurring series entitled Everyday Orientalism. In this series, I hope to look at ways in which abstractions of Arab-Muslim culture are represented in American popular culture. I will be using &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/everyday-orientalism-kehas-take-it-off/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=65&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back in Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to completely saturate every social media outlet, and as a result of my current transient employment status, I have decided to bring back this blog. I will be doing a lot of reading over the next few &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/back-in-action/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=19&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Narrative: Capital or Lowercase N?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to preface by saying that I apologize for not writing in the past few months. I&#8217;ve had a lot going on here in France, and I sort of got pessimistic about the fact that few people read anything &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/the-narrative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=17&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Unfortunate Diagnosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: This is a personal, wishy-washy post. Don&#8217;t expect to learn anything. It was bound to happen, and not even the thousand Lyonnaise cathedrals I pass on my way to school could stop the momentum with which this certain malaise &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/unfortunate_diagnosis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=16&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>French Cultural Exports</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not coherent enough to write another deep post. So some uncharacteristic levity and brevity will be taken. Ask an American what the Frenchiest French things fresh from France are, and she&#8217;ll probably list off some of the following: Wine, &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/french-cultural-exports/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=15&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Talking about Race in France</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 06:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something that has stuck me since coming to France is the frankness and easiness with which people dispense racially-charged drivel. White French people from housewives to professors to men on the street seem to see no problem in labeling a &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/talking-about-race/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=13&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got to Lyon just fine after a bit of scrambling. My first flight was delayed, so instead of going from Richmond to JFK to Lyon, I ended up going from Richmond to Atlanta to Madrid to Lyon. And my &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/safe-and-sound/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=12&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Fries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started taking French classes in 7th grade at Toano Middle School (go Tigers!); the year was 2001. Two weeks or so into the school year, one of the biggest events in modern history occurred: the September 11 suicide attacks &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/freedom-fries/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=10&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allez, viens!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allez, viens! (Translation: Come on, let&#8217;s go!) Weird middle school French textbooks were my very first real exposure to la langue française. In them, an ethnically diverse cast of French teenagers from the 1990&#8242;s discussed their favorite hobbies and ate &#8230; <a href="http://jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/allez-viens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jakerobertnelson.wordpress.com&amp;blog=27696304&amp;post=6&amp;subd=jakerobertnelson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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