15th February 2006, 2:24 AM
you're right on the money ABF. A side from western influence the middle eastern world is barely post bronze age. Only just recently have some major businesses adopted global-wide mentalities and introduced technology and 'western business practices'. Cubicles, suits, watercoolers and monday morning pow-wows. :D Rtan's right that this is a nation of children we're talking about because litteraly, they're uneducated or actually educated with lies (hues of north korea) and seperated from the world and told by migty god-like dictators what is right and what is wrong and what you need to do for him so your family isn't killed by th horrible western countries.
the major thing though, is that these countries dictate a totally different system of morality and judgement outwardly from a completely different type of culture than what we understand. their culture is %100 alien to a westerner and vice versa, so there's alot of communication issues and things get blown out of proportion real fast. And also, let's say there's a country of Hindus who are wealthy and a military power more powerful than America and they release a series of cartoons showing God and Jesus doing idiotic things. I'm not saying we'd start riots or kill people, but we'd definitely be pissed (as a nation) and demand somekind of apology or a formal statement to clear things up.
the major thing though, is that these countries dictate a totally different system of morality and judgement outwardly from a completely different type of culture than what we understand. their culture is %100 alien to a westerner and vice versa, so there's alot of communication issues and things get blown out of proportion real fast. And also, let's say there's a country of Hindus who are wealthy and a military power more powerful than America and they release a series of cartoons showing God and Jesus doing idiotic things. I'm not saying we'd start riots or kill people, but we'd definitely be pissed (as a nation) and demand somekind of apology or a formal statement to clear things up.