Diplogeek at Diplogeek ("Geekery in the U.S. Foreign Service") takes a swing at chipping away at the outdated stereotype.
Money quote(s):
"I want to encourage everyone to go here and have a gander at a great editorial discussing Memorial Day, particularly as it applies to people in the Foreign Service. I do this not to pat myself on the back, because my life is relatively cushy in a lot of ways, at least by Foreign Service standards, but because I currently have a number of friends serving in places like Yemen and border towns in Mexico, where they’re putting themselves at very real risk in order to serve our country. Doing this job isn’t about being a striped-pants cookie pusher, sitting around on a veranda drinking G&Ts and hasn’t been for a while."
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