guys here's what i'm gonna do
i'm gonna go to a random stranger's
house
and knock on their door
thank you enter their home and sit
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and they cannot kick me out for three
days uh welcome to our home
uh can i get you some water or coffee
for three days
they have to feed me let me play with
their cat
give me water and shelter
and only after 72 hours
they can ask me why i am here why are
you here
and uh how can we help you what you just
saw
may look exaggerated but it's a real
thing
in the bedouin culture you have to treat
guests
for three days in your home before you
can ask them
why they came to visit why are you here
and this rare generosity is why you
should travel
to arab countries for example
take the emirates in this country
there are a lot of arabs who look like
this
the movies make them look unfriendly but
in real life
they are generous at restaurants you
have no chance of paying for the bill
the locals will
always fight to pay on your behalf in
other places people fight because they
don't want to pay
and here they fight because they want to
pay
why just let it be
why are you fighting about him it's
considered
shameful not to offer guests food
that's why you'll see these meals and
these
meals regularly offered to guests
there's a saying in many parts of the
world that the customer is always right
but in this part of the world we say
that the guest is always
first they will also dress you
up like one of them and share with you
their farm produce
this is a lot of food man thank you
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i'm not saying this as a tourist i know
this because i'm arab too and for all my
life
i did not know why my people fight to
pay
the tradition of welcoming someone for
three days has been passed down
from bedouin culture no matter who you
are no matter where you're from
when we see you you are welcome and you
are safe
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the truth is my people have a lot of
stereotypes and many of them are true
we do have a problem with women
treatment we do
have a problem with tolerance we do have
a problem
with endless wars but we do not
have a problem with generosity because
no one else would host a guest in their
own home
for three days without question
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there are many more stereotypes about us
that need to be broken
this is why you need to come visit
come visit come visit you
will be safe full and
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satisfied