I Wonder How Many Of You Will Still Be Happy To Spend Their Holidays In A Country Such As This?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295021/Anarchy-streets-Egypt-Two-men-accused-stealing-rickshaw-badly-beaten-hung-vigilantes-baying-mob-thousands.html

[237SJ]

Give or take the odd bomb, things are probably the same as they have always been for tourists. Liife is changing in Egypt for the locals though. I was talking to one of my Cairo based colleages about a year ago and she said that some men stormed into her local hairdressers` salon and started beating up the customers and staff because they disagreed with men cutting womens` hair. I`m sure tourists will still go there though - who worries a

[237SJ]

Half my post disappeared -I meant to say, Who worries about ethics when you can get a good price on an all inclusive holiday?

[anotheoldgit]

FredPuli43 & sp1814

What about a trip to Baghdad or maybe Kabul, fancy either of those two? :0)

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// What do you know about Egyptian culture? ///

Enough to know that it is quite alien to my culture, as are many others.

That is why I am not happy that some of these cultures being imported into the UK, it's not about racism, but it is about culture.

One cannot change their culture just by emigrating into another's country.

And before you disagree with me, could you seriously believe that English men would gather in mobs to string somebody up from a lamppost for stealing a push bike?

[ichkeria]

"And before you disagree with me, could you seriously believe that English men would gather in mobs to string somebody up from a lamppost for stealing a push bike? "

So it's not so bad then, England, really, AOG, despite all the carnage on the buses, etc?
:-)

[sp1814]

AOG

So...you don't know that much about Egypt then?

[Answerprancer]

"Canary, what an odd thing to say" no it isn't, it's a spot on thing to say. Bogface, it's hilarious seeing the stutters in your spelling when it's obvious you're typing quickly and shaking with anger :-)

[Answerprancer]

AOG, further to SP's resonse, assuming you've traveled around a bit in your lifetime, have you visited many (or any) countries in the middle east/north Africa or Asia?

[FredPuli43]

Since you ask, aog, I'd be happy to go to Baghdad. The problem, from a tourist point of view, is that sites of interest may not be accessible; I haven't looked. Kabul has no particular interest and is, I believe, inaccessible to ordinary Britons.

I still wonder why you ask the question of countries "such as this". Is it that we are supposed to be scared for our own safety? Or is it some moral judgment, that we ought not to visit places where someone might be lynched? .