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This comparative contrasts Arlene Stein's The Stranger Next Door with Barry Glassner's The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things. Issues covered include: method of argument, evidence, author's position, issues, and values. The paper concludes with an opinion on which author makes a better point. Surprise ending. Bibliography lists 2 sources. JVfearstra.rtf.
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from the townsfolk or that she considers them aliens, but the sense remains that she is the stranger talking about strangers that she never understands. But in the Introduction of
Stranger, you can sense a note of panic, her panic that the people of the town understand her viewpoint. This is where Stranger converges with Barry Glassners The Culture of
Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things - on that controlled note of panic. It is ironic that both authors are attempting to quell panic when they are
clearly feeling panic themselves, though controlled. Authors Core Arguments In Stranger, no matter what the
remainder of the book indicates, Stein is overtly asking for the world and the people of Timbertown to understand what it means to be gay. That is her reason for
writing the book and, even after her experience, she does not understand why they dont accept gays outright. After all, she has presented herself to them as if she is
the most thoughtful guest, and her motives being so reasonable, everyone should fall in line with her viewpoint. In Culture of Fear Glassner
is asking us to do a lot more work. His argument is that we can no longer be content to sit around and be entertained by the media, politics and
world events because theyre blinding us to what needs to be accomplished today in our own backyards. Evidence and Obvious Values
Trying to hide her real politics behind the objectivity of research, Stein almost loses us in her political stance in the introduction. Despite
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