The more things change….
Bookworm on Feb 11 2008 at 1:16 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
I found this in an anthology of humorous stories from 1950:
Quentin Reynolds calls attention to the fact that Montgomery’s campaign in the Near East altered a centuries-old custom of the natives in those parts. “Since time immemorial,” says Reynolds, “Arabian men rode majestically on the family donkey while their wives, laden with all sorts of burdens, trudged patiently behind on foot. After 1942, however, all that was changed. The wife was emancipated. She now walks in front. There are many unexploded lands mines. . . .”
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We saw precisely the same (pre-1942) arrangement when we arrived in Bolivia in 1969. It really was appalling to western sensibilities. At least Bolivian women didn’t have to worry about land mines!!