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User_gary Posted 17 years ago
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Extensive travel and bouts of culture
United States and Indian investigators are also looking closely into whether the two Chicago men, who travelled to Mumbai before the deadly assault there last November, may have been involved in the plot.
Headley, 49, and Rana, 48, stand out from the young, poor extremists from fundamentalist Islamic schools who strike targets in or close to their homelands, the times noted.
Instead, their privileged backgrounds
Instead, their privileged backgrounds, extensive travel and bouts of culture shock make them more like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the Sep 11,2001 attacks, who attended college in the US, and Mohammed Atta, one of the lead hijackers.
Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20091122/890/twl-headley-said-we-ll-retaliate-against.html
Please explain to me the highlighted parts.
What I know is "extensive travel" means "lots of travelling" and "bouts" means "a short period of illness or an activity" but those meanings don't fit in this context.
Headley, 49, and Rana, 48, stand out from the young, poor extremists from fundamentalist Islamic schools who strike targets in or close to their homelands, the times noted.
Instead, their privileged backgrounds
Instead, their privileged backgrounds, extensive travel and bouts of culture shock make them more like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed architect of the Sep 11,2001 attacks, who attended college in the US, and Mohammed Atta, one of the lead hijackers.
Source : http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20091122/890/twl-headley-said-we-ll-retaliate-against.html
Please explain to me the highlighted parts.
What I know is "extensive travel" means "lots of travelling" and "bouts" means "a short period of illness or an activity" but those meanings don't fit in this context.
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You are right about extensive travel, which DOES fit the context. "Bouts" is a kind of joke; "Bouts of culture shock" is the full item. Culture shock is, as you probably know, a difficult experience in a new culture.
- You are right about extensive travel, which DOES fit the context.
- "Bouts" is a kind of joke; "Bouts of culture shock" is the full item.
- Culture shock is, as you probably know, a difficult experience in a new culture.
- It may, technically, be a type of illness.
- These 2 men had experienced such a thing several (or many) times.
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You are right about extensive travel, which DOES fit the context.
"Bouts" is a kind of joke; "Bouts of culture shock" is the full item. Culture shock is, as you probably know, a difficult experience in a new culture. It may, technically, be a type of illness. These 2 men had experienced such a thing several (or many) times.
"Bouts" is a kind of joke; "Bouts of culture shock" is the full item. Culture shock is, as you probably know, a difficult experience in a new culture. It may, technically, be a type of illness. These 2 men had experienced such a thing several (or many) times.
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