Modernize?

Modernize?
Why does a country refuse after many attempts to modernize? In the Middle East many countries refuse to forego ancient views and beliefs. It is puzzling because these restrictive beliefs create useless, worthless countries. They are not ahead in anything. What used to be the center of life and advancements has no become a place of the past. Their government is a major set back, they refuse to switch to a democratic government, possibly out of fear. They still do not allow women to be educated, so half the population remains uneducated. These views are similar to those of the middle ages because people can not marry nor can they move out of their classes. Society used to be placed in different classes that your family was put into, and one could not move out of that class no matter how hard they worked they were stuck there. Consider the case of Yousri, a proud Egyptian man who desperately wants to emigrate so he can have a better life. “Even the occasional woman who caught Yousri’s eye was quickly dismissed as beyond his reach, usually because they looked wealthier than he was, an imposing barrier in class-ridden Cairo. ‘No middle-class woman will marry the son of a Nubian boab,’ he said.”(99) The Nubian’s in ancient times were slaves. The name has stuck for a very long time. Nubians just cannot get rid of their name and their past which holds them back in a de-modernized society. Their society depends on a class which is sad because right now the Middle East is in the lowest class among countries.
-C.W.