December 21, 2008

Today was the day that the statement “the Chicken came home to roost” happened to me today.
as it is since coming back I got to learn more or more less about society here or rather some more stuff is raveled while staying here, I say reveled because of my father, and reveled since it had to do with the society as whole I cant generalize about the whole society of the country since Jeddah is the only place I have lived in, but I had heard things are not really that different in other places around.

I had a meeting gathering in at JCCI it was in the sunrise time, I had suggested to my uncle to come with me, a move seen by others as mad move,

I went around nine in the morning I waited for uncle to come out, I think the wait was for 15 min a black guy from a security company was sitting with real armed security guards, the guy approached the window of the small corolla.

He came over and knocked on the driver side window, I opened the window and he asked what business I have here “you are waiting here –he said that or something to that effect”

I told him I am not moving this car and its better for him to just go, and shouted near the guards saying that I wont move,
The guards being lazy nad his nothing to do wanted to get to the subject,

Now here is the situation, normally these things when occur, its almost always will be a fight fist fights even, some of these fight in here are brutal in Jeddah I can say in the US too American are in fact violent people no matter how they paint it.

In my case nothing happened except some trash talk from the both sides, Now the new twist was that these guards were bullshitting in bedu accent, they are from south part of the land, and they looked dehydrated as well, but they felt that this abuse by me to this poor black man was made in purpose, I didn’t care, and I still don’t.

I remember things like this in the past in here, Jeddah from all cities seems to suffer more than anywhere else in this country, and the people who are on both sides of this conflict seem not care, and those who are in the middle seem to suffer the most, because they are neither rich nor poor and they cant claim to either side no one wants them and they always take the fall in these type of things.

Just like the US just like any other places, it is not nationalism any more it something deeper