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Typically, Pakistanis & Indians are education-oriented & want their kids to become doctors and engineers.

I think that stereotype applies more to the US than the UK, and while it still holds some truth in the UK, it's definitely more a male thing - i.e. sending sons off to become doctors, pharmacists etc.

Obviously that's a horrible generalisation, and open to lots of exceptions.

As she's just finishing it'll have been around £3.5k pa in tuition (if she was starting next year she'd be looking at an average of £9k pa)

Speaking purely from personal experience in Nepal, that there's a very large Israeli backpacker... "community" - and that it does have something of a reputation. Obviously this is all generalisations, and far from universal, but they're often not hugely popular among locals (guides, porters, hostel/bar owners) as they have a reputation for being more... rude and aggressive than most of the other main groups of backpackers.

I remember sitting with a friend in a tiny hostel somewhere in the Annapurnas, we were the only two in the dining room - just sitting and sipping a tea. Two Israeli guys came in, around the same age as us (early 20s) and sat down next to us and asked "You guys Israeli?" We said "no", and explained we were British - and without another word they just got up, completely blanked us, and went and sat in the corner... I think there's an almost tribal element to their behaviour - a desire to visit these often amazing countries, but to still mix with other Israelis. Obviously that's just one instance, but for some reason Israelis on the Asian backpacker route have managed to build up quite a reputation.

There's a lot of articles on it here

Hey Andy, a few years ago you released or linked to a trailer/short taken from a documentary that was being filmed of you on the road (iirc) - think it was set to Thomas Jefferson - whatever happened with that?

In the UK we typically excavate single context, we don't use units, levels etc but excavate stratigraphically - depending on the size and nature of a context this means we'll sometimes be digging with leaf trowels and brushes and at other times with a mattock and shovel.

But any idea that N.American archaeology is more careful or precise isn't really accurate - they're different systems, but we still keep every artefact - whether a piece of undiagnostic pottery, a piece of quartz debitage or a 1980s coca cola can.