Carl Emanuel Mark
Google translate
This simple picture reveals fundamental differences in cultural background, vision and values.
The picture is one instruction with text in Arabic was displayed in the tents that were assigned for patients' toilet. It turned out that all patients did not understand how to use a toilet of a traditional Western type.
The heading is very interesting. It calls for the introduction of a divine power to make itself clean. Going to the toilet are placed in the context of a religious dimension.
A Western seen a toilet that only a biological necessity. An Iraqi prisoner of war see it in religious perspective. For one Westerners are an everyday toilet a secular phenomenon. For an Iraqi, however, it is a secular phenomenon that is a part of a larger divine and cosmic context. The picture is revealing and demonstrate the cultural tensions with great weight and depth.
On his feet are the slippers that the patients had to borrow to go about a hundred meters to the special tent.
The English text on the picture is written in place and when the hospital was dismantled and the picture was taken down.
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This simple picture reveals fundamental differences in cultural background, vision and values.
The picture is one instruction with text in Arabic was displayed in the tents that were assigned for patients' toilet. It turned out that all patients did not understand how to use a toilet of a traditional Western type.
The heading is very interesting. It calls for the introduction of a divine power to make itself clean. Going to the toilet are placed in the context of a religious dimension.
A Western seen a toilet that only a biological necessity. An Iraqi prisoner of war see it in religious perspective. For one Westerners are an everyday toilet a secular phenomenon. For an Iraqi, however, it is a secular phenomenon that is a part of a larger divine and cosmic context. The picture is revealing and demonstrate the cultural tensions with great weight and depth.
On his feet are the slippers that the patients had to borrow to go about a hundred meters to the special tent.
The English text on the picture is written in place and when the hospital was dismantled and the picture was taken down.
www.studiointernet.se
