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Re:Notes on Saudi Arabia by recuter on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:02AM (#33751678)
Why do so many young Saudis change clothes literally at the airport bathroom (witnessed this multiple times) party and act western every chance they get away from such supervision?
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Re:Notes on Saudi Arabia by tmdh on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:06AM (#33751700)
What? I used to wear western clothes. Occasionally I would wear Saudi dresses, e.g. at a funeral.
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Re:Notes on Saudi Arabia by hasdha on Saturday November 26, 2022 @08:17AM (#33752377)
What's acting western for you? Drinking alcohol and wearing jeans?
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Re:Notes on Saudi Arabia by recuter on Saturday November 26, 2022 @08:27AM (#33752452)
Sure, for example.

Wearing jeans arguably hastened the end of the Soviet union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeans_Revolution

Alcohol is haram. I hear the attitude towards Jeans in SA is now more lenient but less than a decade ago would get you in hot water with the religious police.

You get the gist of it. The moment they leave that country many of its young people act very differently in ways that would not be allowed/frowned upon back home. What is up with that?

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