A HYPOCRISY OF VALUES – Exposing the Duality of the Arab Personality

Once Arabs began the shift in their way of life, of their nomadism and slowly became urbanised, the internal conflict between their tribal belief and behavioural systems continued for many centuries. Not enough time elapsed to gradually migrate the mindset from one shaped in the desert versus the a mentality requiring new sets of rules, civility and behaviour. Even those that had been modernised for many decades or centuries, retain certain fundamental traditions of the tribal consciousness.