In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

Post by microcolonel » Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC

ozzmotik wrote: post #65

neilv wrote: post #48

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I think you have a good thinking about journalistic practice here. It might mitigate hypothetical undesirable effects, in this case, to articulate some of the effect of the article on readers for whom the article was intended. For one example, for me, as a citizen of the US, where this article was published, I enjoyed this article, and it fostered a favorable impression of Cairo, by humanizing one of its people. In a…

oh wow that's an astonishingly wholesome take on it. and now that i think about it, one that is quite resonant with my own experience of it in retrospect. it was certainly an extremely humanizing piece and i think in that regard, it's doing one of the most noble honors (at least in my moral framework): striving to eliminate xenophobia. so much in this world tries to divide us by our national identity and our ethnicit…

Post by lusmd » Sat, Jul 13, 2019, 11:34 PM UTC

usbseeker wrote: post #69

jbuzbee wrote: post #36

My brother and sister-in-law (Westerners) lived in Cairo for a few years and tell a similar humorous story. They too would just set their trash and unwanted items out in the hall where it would quickly disappear. Once my sister-in-law put out some clothes that included an old T-Shirt that had been printed for a family get-together celebrating her parents 50th anniversary. It had a large photo of her parents on it alo…

That is so sad she threw the shirt out, were they on bad terms with the parents?

Post by ozzmotik » Sun, Jul 14, 2019, 5:06 AM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #71

ozzmotik wrote: post #65

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oh wow that's an astonishingly wholesome take on it. and now that i think about it, one that is quite resonant with my own experience of it in retrospect. it was certainly an extremely humanizing piece and i think in that regard, it's doing one of the most noble honors (at least in my moral framework): striving to eliminate xenophobia. so much in this world tries to divide us by our national identity and our ethnicit…

> so much in this world tries to divide us by our national identity and our ethnicities, etc It is precisely that we have real, inescapable conflicts that makes it heartening to see something transcend that. If it transcended nothing, what would it mean? Probably nothing.