They sound thoroughly westernised to me

Salam Pax has been visiting a Baghdad university, to see whether the campuses are hotbeds of free speech and potential revolution, and he finds....

And what about the students? Well most of them just don't give a damn. I sat for an hour with 10 students under a tree on the main street in the university compound and all I could get out of them was a collective, "Eh, well ... I don't know".