upper class cairo aka the seventeenth century
--marriage= absolution (sometimes) --degree of education, size of bank account and when/how you came into money indicates level of morality, level of support for cross breeding of progeny and areas you can frequent comfortably --must be able to pigeonhole yourself into one of the three takes on religion: "adore", "icky bad", "i know fuck all about religion" (overlap is allowed) --foreigners are the devil, purge them. foreigners are everything i want to be and indeed believe i am, they're also everything everyone here should be. (overlap is allowed) --we're not sexist. but women are clearly different, in clearly subordinate ways. --residential areas, eateries, universities and gardens that literally have fences and security surrounding them to keep the riffraff out --the definition of virginity is an intact hymen --patronizing and constantly paraphrasing and/or repeating verbatim popular parts of holy book of choice and/or popular and completely baseless cultural adage = kindly and affectionate advice from elders --reputation is the basis of all relationships |