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.
Correct Answer: c
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