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ELITE Vol.1, Issue 39, January 2022
Vol.1, Issue 39, January

Report: The Western Lifestyle

Carolin Sherif, Hania Bahaa, Reem Omran, Mary Rizk, Rana Refaat, Adham Nasr
The Western lifestyle has always been greatly
influential for the Middle Eastern traditions and
cultures, especially that of Egypt, where it is possible
to trace back the beginning of the spread of this
influence with the initiation of the policy of
economic openness pursued by the late President
Anwar El-Sadat and the accompanying openness to
aspects of life in the West. And since, the Western
lifestyle has what is useful together with constructive
aspects leaking into our everyday life; Without a The questions were as follows:
How can you describe the Western lifestyle?
doubt, there’s so much that isn’t appropriate, nor Most of the opinions agreed that the Western lifestyle is
compatible, with our culture and identity. Thus, we, characterized by openness, absolute freedom and
the editors of Elite, took it upon ourselves to study unilateralism, which is represented in the independence
and communicate the opinions of Cairo University’s of children from the age of eighteen, unlike the Middle
students over the matter, in terms of communicating Eastern lifestyle, that still retains its conservative
their opinions and displaying their views over what’s behavior, although it’s starting to gradually converge to
useful and what isn’t when it comes to what’ve that of the Western society.
What do you think we gained from the West? Are
gained from the Western pattern of life, alongside these positive or negative to our society? And why?
seeking their advices over what we can do to Plenty of the students believe that one of the positive
preserve out true culture and identity. things we gained from the Western society was the
This report was an unprecedented one, since the openness to experience, alongside the prevalence of
team in charge followed a hybrid system in freedoms and the culture of acceptance of the other as
conducting the interviews, where the team was split well. In addition, our society also acquired the capability
into two groups; The first group conducted a field of identifying the emerging problems and how to
report on the university’s grounds, and the other confront them, such as bullying, over which we started
group carried out an online report through Zoom. raising awareness only recently. And lastly, the positive
impacts extended to benefiting from the Western
The interviews were conducted with male and successful experiences and milestones, like the
female students from the faculties of Economics and educational systems.
Political science, Mass Communication, Law,
Sciences and Business Administration.

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