I have always admired the Arabs and the Arab world for their enormously rich ancient civilizations, cultures, traditions, architecture, music, cuisine, poetry, landscapes, ancient artefacts, Islamic religious holy sites and sites, those of Abrahamic religions (for their historical value), the very location at the crossroads of the world (right in the middle if you look at a world map almost) between the remaining Asia, Africa and Europe etc.
However what strikes me the most and at times baffles me, is their loyalty to their traditions such as traditional dresses that they proudly wear everywhere during formal and informal settings. Pretty much unique to the Arabs, in particular Arabians, nowadays, irrespective of continent.
I see it among Pashtuns as well and a few others but they are far and in between and not as extravagant.
Which is kind of sad in this world of today where everyone is behaving more alike and looking more alike.
The G-20 meeting in Japan from 2019. It always stroke me that the only traditional dress in sight among those G-20 nations is the Saudi Arabian representative.
Chinese, Black, Indonesian, European, Latin American, Russian, Japanese, they are all wearing the same boring generic Western clothing as if they had none of their own or if they did not want to stand out.
With the exception of Modi, probably the only positive thing that I can say about him.
A few more cool photos from another Reddit thread:
I just realized that Reddit is very much infected by trolling like much online communication, lol. Too naive.
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Call me crazy and who am I to decide what women should be wearing, but the world would be a bit more colorful and interesting if women in the Muslim World were wearing their traditional regional dresses (some shown in this thread from within KSA) rather than the same boring generic black abayas (mostly but not only), niqab, hijab etc. I am not sure if it is more practical but boring it is.