“Kuwait as a country has many elements of success,”

I should have stopped there but your words lured me onwards with their sexual allure.

I’ve never learned a thing in university yet others will foam at the mouth, proclaiming that they learned so much in university and that its lessons will last them throughout their lives.

So it’s subjective, you may not have learned anything but the retard next to you possibly might have. However the nature of classes taught in Kuwait from my experience do not really teach you anything, it’s more of a memorize/cheat, pass and forget system.

However I somewhat agree with the self-proclaimed savior of Kuwait, 90% of the Kuwaiti population as a result of mooching off the oil revenue for so long are lazy, unoriginal and do not know the value of the things they possess.

You should write up a post about how Kuwait is void of any originality and simply derives everything, from necessities to luxuries from the West and how that’s really detrimental to Kuwaiti/Arab society and the consequences of such actions.

One example, the portrayal of bakeries in sitcoms or the success of them abroad (ie landan) which has led to a widespread and rampant splurge of people (’successful business’ women AKA those with rich husbands/college women) opening up store after store of the same crap with just different names and frosting.

With the guys, just look out on the roads for example, and notice how many pickups/wanaits you see being driven by ‘tough’ guys with delicately trimmed goatees sporting Armani caps expressing their manhood (in the form of a long, black truck to compensate for their lack of natural masculinity). In the US, people actually use their pickups for labor, even teenagers whereas the only ‘labor’ people here use their trucks for is to carry their fat asses to the shalay or to shara2 al 7ob.

Yea.

I’ll have to agree with what Sexleg said.
Even though I’m a teacher, most of my teaching techniques and language come from self-teaching and just reading a lot. I don’t think I learned that much from college.

For example, I was taught one way of lesson-planning at Uni and when I started working, I was told to do it a whole different way and that the technique I’d acquired from studying (wasting) 4 years in University was outdated and didn’t fit the current curriculum.

I think the thing your preacher teacher is doing wrong is wasting his time preaching rather than teaching.

I wouldn’t compare that one specific Kuwaiti professor with that one specific Egyptian (or any other nationality) teacher, because I knew foreign professors who used to give A’s in return for was6as and money (I know that because I worked hard and was given a D while another student with a famous last name, known for giving bribes like candy, got to tour Europe during the whole semester and magically got an A).
So you definitely can’t compare.

This might be rare, but I love my job as a teacher and do it for the students rather than the money.
I can very easily get some random job at an oil company and get paid over 1000KD just to do nothing, but I know for a fact that I won’t be affecting futures that way.

Anyways, this is just a point of view. Just keep in mind ina el Kuwait lail7een feeha khair, it all just starts in the household. Raise your kids well and you wouldn’t have to worry about sare3 el 7ub assholes or airhead mcchickens..

My post’s question is how can we release Kuwaitis from these traits? How can we purchase what we need, not what we can afford? How can we be sufficient and efficient? How can we shove some work ethics up some people’s asses?

The damage has already been done.

The essence of spending without thought has been ingrained in our society.

Some ways to help would be to implement taxes, crush wasta, and prevent the government from bailing out people who go into debt who buying things they cannot afford.

“In reality though, geographically we’re not blessed with anything but oil but we’re rich enough to make up for it. Japan invests in factories in China, why can’t Kuwait? You can be anything in a borderless globalized economy. Elfloos tyeeb floos, etc.”

Tiqfa, the Japanese have a strong work ethic that dates back to the days of the Bushido following Samurai, there is no comparison between Japan and Kuwait lol.

Kuwait has oil yes but it will run out or an alternative might be created in the mean time and not even the oil barons of the world would be able to fully stop that change from overtaking the world.

Recently upon looking at a map of Europe, I began to form a theory that all the major powers of the area (who are literally neighbors of one another: Spain, England, France, Italy, and Germany for the geographically challenged) which are the favorite destinations or sources of luxury and ideas for Kuwait/the Gulf/Arab world, from football teams to designer clothes to ‘democracy’ is no mere coincidence.

And I also believe that the Crusades never ended.

I’ll just leave it at that.

Also give the Egyptian teacher a few years to adjust (ie become corrupted) so that he can see the error of his ways.

The point of rape and stained undies was very clear message distilled from the professor incident. You never fail to amaze me with your commonsense.

To answer the question posed requires a broad understanding of various factors, theories, practical assumptions etc..

Let’s cut the bull and get to the point.. the point is ‘mass attitude change’ and how can it happen?

Capitalism, communism, democracy, reformism, neosocialism etc. have all failed individually to sustain a stable, morally sound, functional society.

Religion coupled with any of the above has acted as a catalyst to futher deiotriate conditions.

Religion moves masses, its usage is considered to be vital in structuring the society’s fundamental thoughts. Although its abuse has undesired effects.

The practicality: the mix of all the above is what we got. And globalization has made it spread this confusion like wild fire around in the globe.

This only has caused long term destruction in various ways on various geographical states, based on their natural resourses, religion, political stucture and population.

The answer to your question lies broadly in the state itself.

To explicitly reason out an answer will take quite an energy of a group of like minded people.

You are welcome to join :)

~ Soul

I studied abroad and for a long time I felt more comfortable with people who had that same educational experience and thought that we had some shared values. As I grew older and met more people I realized that some people who go abroad get little out of it aside from academics. Some people act like being open-minded means being ok with drinking and being cultured means listening to rap music. It’s juvenile and it’s the total opposite of the sophistication and depth of character you hope to see from someone who went to a good university abroad. Moreover I met people who went to public Kuwaiti schools and attended Kuwait university who are incredibly impressive and well-read and who can really carry an intellectually stimulating conversation with ease. In short, don’t let the education section in a resume fool you. It takes personality to make something out of your education.

well join the club … sounds like where wwe come from sticks forever !

time for suspic to bless us with some new words of wisdom ;p