I am an Arab

Yesterday I was catching up with someone, and I really don't know how our talk went deep, to cultural and religious talk. It was clear from what I said that I despised many things about our conservative Arabic culture. He is open minded, but still tried to counter my points, by saying; now wait, I am sure I can think of one or two things that are good about the Arabic culture...

He paused for a while, then was like, really nothing much comes to mind .

That was funny as hell 🤣

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BlueVeins · 22-25

I feel so bad for all you motherfuckers over there. At least you have pretty architectureeeeeeeee

BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether @Miram

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BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether Definitely. But we were talking about the social aspect of things.

Miram · 31-35, F

@BittersweetPotato Alright, admittedly Arabs still have somewhat more attachment to their kids, which is both good and bad. People let their kids live with them after marriage as adults which does help with the homeless crisis but also sort of prolongs facing it by those in charge.

I like this one Arab tradition in the city of Constantine, where women belonging to rich noble families would go out and beg and gather money ..and they redistribute it to the poor. This was called the day of Boughiya.

Arab people stopped doing that unfortunately.

BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F

@Miram When i found him stuck, I did mention that maybe we have closer/stronger family relations.. Because western societies are individualist in nature.. but even those stronger connections are not always good. We have problems with establishing boundaries, rights and independence for individuals withing a family or a bigger community. And these strong connections are VERY OFTEN used in conservative societies for emotional blackmail to force certain behaviors and choices.