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People from the western (Christian culture) countries think it's weird to travel to culturally Muslim countries (not talking about religion).

Imagine how it must be the other way around:

- drunk people who smell bad on the streets, even in restaurants. People smell if beer and are getting progressively more stupid with every drink

- only one wife per man allowed, yet men often sleep around. Why the dishonesty? If a husband can sustain two women, be honest to both and marry both. If not, don't do it.

- people scrub shit off their asses with paper. Don't they have running water to just wash it? What century is this?

I don't know if I got it right. Anyone coming from Muslim culture (again, not talking about religious stuff), am I completely off? Would you add something?

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Farfallica 2y ago

I am not Muslim but I agree. That’s why it’s good to know other people’s perspective of the world. Respect is always the answer. 💜

Juraj 2y ago

Yes, but I rarely ask.

So I'll ask more.

I think curiosity comes even before respect in this case...

Bearetta 🐻‍❄️🇨🇿 2y ago

As far as I met people, the religion thing hits in a lot, more than with Christians. I couldn't care less about religion etc., but chopping off babies' foreskin?

Juraj 2y ago

Most people from Muslim culture I know follow some of the customs, but are not really religious. Meaning they don't practice it. So they don't drink alcohol, but they don't pray either. That's why I was asking about culture.

Of course there are many religious Muslims and Christians, but because I don't care about it that much and faith is a private thing, I don't really come into contract with it. I don't go to church.

About circumcision - if religious (I would say more cultural), it's widely practiced in Judaism, Islam and even some eastern orthodox and coptic Christian sects. While I don't particularly endorse it, I don't come into contact with it while traveling.

Pj 2y ago

A sidenote about marriage: Polygamy is a war time mating style. When men die in a fight, women don't have to stay single and childless. Monogamy is a peace time mating style. Men and women can be paired 1:1 so you don't have rich guys hoarding wives on one hand, and lonely, upset and potentially aggressive guys on the other.

dentist 2y ago

And yet they come here by the millions