Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea gave a great insight to the middle Eastern world. Gregg Mortenson saw something in this ethnic group of people that most didn't see. This book had a basic theme of trying to break the stereotype of Muslim people being extremist or terrorist. Gregg tried to show that these people need educated not fire arms . Gregg as lo talked of Afghanistan during Sept member 11Th, as the country did need Reconstruction,the "collateral damage" seemed awful. We as Americans only see and hear what our government and media wants us to hear, we don't know what life is like for them. Gregg saw and knew he needed to help those people.

I overall enjoyed the book. As I said previous he gave insight to the people of Pakistan. Before reading three cups of Tea I thought that the poor countries are African based. I also thought that the middle East has oil, these people are rich, they are greedy extremists. I didn't realized that they had such a poor school system. I liked that Gregg met good people of Pakistan that helped him Hajji Ali and shady people like changazi. It wasn't like everyone over there is wonderful. I found it a little bit odd that Gregg didn't want to spend more time with his family when his children were born. I would have thought the Tara and him would have had more arguments about it , but I guess she understood him.

Three cups of Tea helped me understand more about the middle Eastern culture than the "Salt" book did about the Chinese and the other cultures. The book gave me a better understanding of the Muslim faith and how it works. The book also helped in learning how terrorists are being brought up and how simple it is to fight the terrorists. All the Pakistani people need is a chance to succeed (not meant to rhyme) with an education.