Tuesday, March 1

Egypt - the people

i believe that the degree of civilization of a people can be seen (among other things) by how he wealth is distributed: the bigger the discrepancies between the rich and poor, the less civilized they are.


and in Egypt, most people are poor; in fact, some of the things you see in the street point to a people frozen somewhere in the last centuries (because that's what most people have access to).

(ofcourse i fiddled with the colors in this picture, but it illustrates my point perfectly)


near the pyramides there's a bunch of people trying to seem taken from 1001 arabian nights



one could argue that it's just tourism and they do it because it means more money for everyone; but it's not that;

because you see the same with the (tourist) police





ofcourse not all people are like that;


this is our guide:
and he looks ... European enough ...


and here are people in a street, looking much better:






but there are still whole areas of ugly, unfinished buildings





ok, and here is another picture of the Nile, that i couldn't figure anything significant to write, or comment about :))

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