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On the basis of his student's negative experience in a Barbadian village, Gmelch concludes in Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas that
 
  a. it is difficult for U.S. women to find acceptance in Barbadian communities because people there think they are morally loose.
  b. American students unconsciously look down on Barbadians and are unable to hide their sense of superiority.
  c. a great barrier to student research in places like Barbados is that local people view students as tourists.
   d. U.S. students assume that Barbadian communities are homogeneous and fail to appreciate the social dynamics found in small face-to-face communities.

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According to Gmelch in Nice Girls Don't Talk to Rastas, people living in the rural Barbadian community where his study abroad student, Hanna, was doing research believed that
 
  a. Rastafarians had taken vows of celibacy and young women should not talk to them.
  b. Rastafarians were low class because their ancestors had come from Africa.
   c. Rastafarians were lazy, pot smoking people who stole things and bathed naked.
  d. Rastafarians were members of a religion that revered Islam, not Christianity.



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