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YOU KNOW YOU’RE A SYRIAN WHEN… |
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Written by Tex Manchester
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Friday, 15 September 2006 |
Having spent the last two months in Damascus, Syria, I have
determined through personal experience that you know you're a Syrian when...
...You have a Malcolm X sign on your rear view mirror and
think Adolf Hitler was a great man for killing Jews.
...You Love Hezbollah but hate the Lebanese.
...You think all women should be virgins but you want to screw
everything that walks.
...You don't understand the concept of a line and think you
should always be helped immediately.
...You don't understand the concept of personal space and
therefore rub your entire body against the person in front you in the mob that
should be a line.
...You wear American clothes, listen to American music, and
wait for hours in line for a visa to go to America, yet still somehow hate
America.
Damascus is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the
world. Thousands of years of
civilization evidently do not automatically render a place civilized.
Tex Manchester is a former military intelligence
officer.
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