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Growing Up in Kuwait |
| Section: LIFE / PROFILE |
| Author: Heather B. Hayes |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 3,057 Words, 16,824 Characters |
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More than fifty years ago, oil was discovered in the tiny emirate of Kuwait, and almost overnight Kuwait's people went from being traders and pearl divers to sharing in the world's highest per capita income. With its newfound wealth, Kuwait became the Middle East's most progressive nation, offering free medical care, education, and other benefits. Old Kuwait, a city of traditional mud houses, became New Kuwait, with modern skyscrapers and super highways. People prospered; house servants and drivers became the norm.
Through it all, Kuwaitis say, the people remained simple and family-oriented. For this reason, life in Kuwait before the invasion was a comfortable, easy, quiet paradise.
In the following profiles, three Kuwaitis--a college professor, a female college student, and a ...
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...ndency on foreigners. "Kuwaitis will be more dependent on themselves in the sense of doing things for themselves. We'll see more Kuwaitis in the hospitals as doctors and nurses. We'll have fewer servants."
There is one facet of Kuwaiti life that he hopes will never change. "The Kuwaitis have a good heart, the kind way they have in dealing with each other. Let's hope that never changes."
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