WOMEN WHO KNOW THEIR PLACE ....... A point of view.
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> >> Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul,
> >> Afghanistan, several years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that
> >> women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.
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> >> 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
> >> are happy to, maintain the old custom.
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> >> Ms. 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?'
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> >> The woman looked Ms. Walters straight in the eyes, and without hesitation
> >> said, 'Land Mines.'
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> >> Moral of the story is (no matter what language you speak or where you
> >> go):
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> >> BEHIND EVERY MAN, THERE'S A SMART WOMAN !
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