Your Egypt

[moll]

Trying hard to think up some Egypt related topics here.......

If you're interested in Egypt, is it the modern country or its history that attracts you?

I was always kind of interested in the history, I like history in general but Egyptian history always interested me more than any other period...but then when I visited for the first time, it was modern Egypt that I wanted to find out more about. I'm not a lying on a beach person, get bored after a while and I just burn anyway :( and I'm not into diving (but it would help if I could swim :smt089 ) so the Red Sea doesn't really appeal to me much, never been there.........

But then maybe it's people living in amongst the history that's so fascinating about modern Egypt :-k

[RoughShod]

Moll, I am really in a bad way so to speak, but I prefer mine towards yours anyday. So good luck then babes; LOL

[RoughShod]

Moll, I have read so many stories about Egypt and these stories make Egypt seem mysterious, as if that country had a huge influence on the world as a whole, but you look at modern day Egypt, it seems to be a third world country suffering with the woes of bad administration, poor infrastructure...perhaps corruption?

Look at that Sharmcliff resident having to fight own battle right in Egypt and another gets away with wrong doing against that Sharmcliff resident. I mean, if a country is to remain great, it should also be able to control its internal problems as well as those external in nature

[Lolypop]

Well moll, I love history so much too. And i'm so proud of the Egyptian history more than anyone I know. But I would prefere the modern Egypt.
Now we youth of Egypt are just like any other youth in any other modern country.We have lots of information sources.We are cultured and hungry for information, because we beleive we need better life and better conditions because we are sure that we deserve it.

Yes, we have corruption and mal administraion like Rough said. But we still try to struggle our way out to acheive our dreams oe better life. We have so many facilities our parents didnt have. Sometimes we rush things, Sometimes we wait.

I think I can't live without Internet. I can't live with out those so many kinds of transportation. I can't live without my cell phone. I can't live withour Eljazeera channels. I can't live without so many things now.
we are no different than any modern country althaugh we are classified as third world country. But there are somewheres people still live without internet . But Even now in the Egy rural people have satelites receivers and can have all channels of information they seek. And even they have more kinds of transportations.

We can't just be like France or England in a day. But we the new generation and with all corruption around us, we still have hope to have better and more powerfull modern Egypt. :wink:

[moll]

Loly, I think there are probably quite a few Egyptians who wouldn't WANT to be like France or England, if they read all the stuff in the media or on the internet about the west.....

The west has many problems too, if only the best of the west and the best of Egypt could meet somewhere in the middle :cry:

I think (as a non-Egyptian, obviously) Egypt's main problem is corruption in government and administration, that seems to me to be pretty widespread from what I've seen, if you've got money and connections you can get away with so much more than 'ordinary' Egyptians can, and that must be so frustrating for them.

But I still think it's the most fascinating country I've ever been to.... it has so much going for it in its history, its people, its culture, the whole way of life is just so different to mine, there's nowhere else in the world that pulls me the way Egypt does even with all its problems.

But maybe if I lived there long term and had to put up with all the frustrations that I know are part of Egyptian life, I'd change my mind........