To: .cnI redruM
One covers one's face only in shame...shame for what you are or what you do. Proud people do not cover their faces.
2 posted on
05/19/2004 11:40:59 AM PDT by
SMARTY
To: SMARTY
>>>>Proud people do not cover their faces.
Honor and pride emerge when a code is adapted. Usually this occurs only among the civilized. That code, slavery and the racial caste system in the antebellum South for example, may be badly corrupt and ultimately unworkable. However, it will always set constraints on our baser instincts that make it vastly preferable to the law of the jungle.
3 posted on
05/19/2004 11:48:59 AM PDT by
.cnI redruM
("Angst is their calling card. Psychotherapy their badge of honor. Dems are the no-no party.")
To: SMARTY
Some cover their faces in fear.. fear of retaliation..
Arab culture is such that only those in power are able to make boasts, threats and incriminations without fear of retaliation..
It's been that way for centuries..
Face to face, one compliments and respects one's superiors.. or else..
Only from behind the mask of anonymity may an arab express his true feelings..
(but not the women..that would be bad...)
5 posted on
05/19/2004 12:12:54 PM PDT by
Drammach
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