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At a younger age, I used to think that one cannot achieve except outside of this country. But small achievements here are worth a great deal. Helping a few helpless help themselves here and being part of the early trivial development activities that could happen here (if ever), could be as worthwhile as getting to the moon and researching rocket science elsewhere, and sometimes its just as hard.

Every moral man and woman in this country that is holding tight to their morals, in this lawless swamp of immorality is making a great achievement.

Humans are the same everywhere. Some of the differences arise from the surrounding culture and from how we're raised. Yet we all have the same traits and chracteristics, needs and desires, just balanced differently. But Egyptians as a group have common factors that can be attributed to us in general, which are a result of the surrounding culture, and the environment we're being raised in.

I claim that what's wrong with Egyptians is not the individual within us. But what's wrong with Egyptians is us, as a group of people. Its how we function together, and how we perceive others. In fact, its how we are not able to function together. The problem is with Egyptians as a society functioning through our culture.

How we are governed by our regime is not an exception. Its from us, onto us --wa min a3malekom ma solleta 3alaykom. If we take snapshots of our society at any level, we'll find that every sample mini-government in our society functions the exact same way. Every power figure acts the same way, and every group of governed people in our society act the same way. We personify leadership (sometimes to an idol status, intentionally or not), blow them up, then suck up to them so we can be closer to them to benefit from their power, and when their time is up, we throw them over to take their place or work through the next powerful figure. And those who don't do that, allow those who do to rule.

For some reasons that anthropologists and sociologists can analyze, cutting corners has become a theme of our culture, where its important to get the job done, but not important how it gets done. Ana wa men ba3dy eltofan (I come first, and the tsunami can destroy the rest), is the definition of being smart in this culture, and if you care and work with others then you are by definition naive and dumb.

Mr or Mrs ramberandt
I would like to Thank you about this article , "do you really write it on your own" it looks like the ones we read on the newspappers which to be honest my small mind find it difficult to understand from the first time , but as a conclousion , i was talking about individuals as you mentioned them in your reply by "Every moral man and woman in this country that is holding tight to their morals, in this lawless swamp of immorality is making a great achievement."
Why cant we all as Egyptian be that man or this women , stand still to our morals and religious believes while dealing with others that is my whole point , don't blame the government , or blame the surrounding environment or blame bad people in the society you are living within , start with blaming yourself first , and if everybody stick to this approach , we will feel the change
as i can see from your name ramberandt or the right spelling should be Rembrandt you are a fan of arts , which mean you are a free spirit and honest soul, belive me things will get better if one started by himself
Cheers