Egypt: Ever felt chained by your culture and society?

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As a woman.... my answer would def. be "YES", but i suppose that would be more or less the same answer by most people around the world.

What i am asking now has to do more with our culture, our upbringing our society..... When was the last time you felt chained and held back from your goals or even simple desires?

BTW..... everybody is welcome to answer too, give us a peek into your culture and society............


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Hey Zoser.... missed yr answers.... Still, as u can see, i left out religion and faith from my q, cos i believe, the rules in any religion are there to protect.... What i am talking about is the double standards in people's thoughts and approach to life, constraints that they place on others and on themselves and hide behind being morally or culturally taboo which in most cases are AGAINST religion and has nothing to do with good strong faith.
 
Look Ya Hope,,, Your answer should be No,,,, Let me explain my point,, Culture and traditions are the result either the beliefs OR Long time experience (heritage),, and both proved right even when we think they are not...Rarely ,,,people inherited wrong ideas although there are even some justifications for those wrong ideas,, i will not go through that Now,, But let us look at the bright side of the cultural inherited,,, We- as individual can not be correct while 1000's or millions concluded something and was proved by experience in our cultural inheritance,,, some exceptions are there of course, because the change in the environment and in the circumstances but in General if you think hard in most of The human culture , you will find a reason behind every single (chain) You may do not like them, You may feel they are wrong,, But still I found the majority of those chains are having their reasons and justification (of course I can give examples , but that will drag lots of disputes in your question and the answers you will get)
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hey: well , as I said before, those cultural (chains) can be because of the long time experience of the human race,,and are in our heritage because they proved correct, it is funny that even in diseases , and medicines , we see that (traditions) gives very good solution to lots of diseases..
lets take something I hate in marriage in the Egyptian culture (not all the Egyptians of course) Al kaymah: although it is very humiliating and (stupid) but still there is a very justified reason for it (even If not that logic, ) that it was adopted by the law..They say , Al atalz3 men al shorba,, ynfokh fel zabady( who is harmed by hot soup, Is afraid from even the cold yogurt) , I gave this example because I always criticize it and hate it,, but I saw during my lifetime that this list, was a salvation for some women not to sleep along with their kids on the floor//
 
more than culture are concepts that many may neglect it
if yes or no question it will be YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS
 
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