What people are really missing here is family values. I am not speaking about respecting your personal family, I am specifically speaking about respecting other families.
An incident happened in Khobar today. A driver with some girls in the car got stopped and the door opened by another man. Of course the driver was a foreigner and the other party is a Saudi. The Saudi shouted some bad things to the driver after he got out of his car, walked to the other car and opened the door of the driver, that is when a female in the car told him to close the door. The Saudi (showing his perfect manners) did NOT apologise , but instead shouted at the driver and the female(of course cursing), and everyone in the car. It really shows where the values are in the society.
There was a time a person would get bashed by an elder neighbor without retaliating, only expressing his regret. There was a time when an elderly women would need some help in something, and a stranger would help her without knowing here or expecting anything in advance.
The family values that exist today are great, but people like this Saudi guy do not represent society, he represents what could happen to it if no one stepped in to knock some sense in him.
I am not blaming the parents , I am blaming him for not representing himself in an orderly manner. There is no excuse for such behavior.
Some people might think that this is a one-time incident, and maybe it is or it isn't, but everyone one of us has seen something like this happen in front of them (disrespecting other people). It is up to us to help guide ( or even stop and punch) these lost parts of society.
Lets try to help heal what little damage there is, before it becomes an epidemic in our community.
