Gad Saad's The Parasitic Mind is an autoethnography polemic
against autoethnography. If you are familiar at all with Gad
Saad, you could not gain much by reading it: Though perhaps
it is now the canonical source about his view on the political
scene.
If you have not followed Gad Saad: His family (and his school
years) were at the tail end of the Jewish exodus from Lebanon,
in his case, to Quebec in Canada. He is worried about the
combination of the identity politics of some and head burying
of others pushing North America in the direction his family
fled.
I noticed a disparity between one of Saad's stories that did
not make the cut for The Parasitic Mind, where an ex-Lebanese
Christian is antisemitic towards him, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali's
comparison of integration between Christians and moslems in
which she found that Christian migrants integrated seemlessly.
I give the book five and a half stars out of ten: Useful as a
printed source on stories Gad Saad presents on other media.
No boats rocked.
