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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (16889)1/20/2002 4:21:31 PM
From: frankw1900  Respond to of 281500
 
The one I read had a Pashtun motto that went "me against my brothers, my brothers and I against our cousins, my cousins
and I against our enemies."


This is a corollary of authoritarian family/political structure. It could have been said of much of European society in 19th, early 20th centuries. And it could still be said of certain isolated pockets of European society today.

Democracy, education and liberalism weakens it....