Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Legends Convey a Truth, Even When They're Fictional

That's why the good ones survive.
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Barbara Walters once did a 20/20 story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to, and seem happy to, maintain the old custom.

Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked, 'Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once tried so desperately to change?'

The woman replied, without hesitation, "Land mines."
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It says here, that this is a legend. So what?

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