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DanaC · 01-09-2009, 03:17 PM

There have been quite a few historical studies looking into the effects of slave ownership on American slave owners in the Ante-bellum South.

[eta] There are other aspects to Arab culture and different variations on those themes. I have a good friend who spent several years as a VSO worker in a few different places. I also have some friends who are regular visitors to the West Bank. The idea that they don't view obligations as running both ways does not correllate in anyway with anything that any of those friends have reported back. Far from it. What comes through from their anecdotes is a complicated network of mutual obligations and a cultural leaning towards individual and familial generosity: not at all unusual for a family in the West Bank to offer what little hospitality they can and the last or best of what they have to these western visitors. It was the same in the Sudan when my friend Les was there in the late 80s.

01-09-2009, 03:17 PM	#243
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	There have been quite a few historical studies looking into the effects of slave ownership on American slave owners in the Ante-bellum South. [eta] There are other aspects to Arab culture and different variations on those themes. I have a good friend who spent several years as a VSO worker in a few different places. I also have some friends who are regular visitors to the West Bank. The idea that they don't view obligations as running both ways does not correllate in anyway with anything that any of those friends have reported back. Far from it. What comes through from their anecdotes is a complicated network of mutual obligations and a cultural leaning towards individual and familial generosity: not at all unusual for a family in the West Bank to offer what little hospitality they can and the last or best of what they have to these western visitors. It was the same in the Sudan when my friend Les was there in the late 80s. Last edited by DanaC; 01-09-2009 at 03:23 PM.