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Vol.1, Issue 48, October 2022
Egyptians are generally melancholic,
because of everything they have, and still,
go through. But they have learned to
ﺔﯿﻣﻮﯿﻟا ﻲﺗﺎﺒﺟو
adapt, they complain to God and ask Him
for patience because that’s the only
possible option. They still laugh and make
ﺮﻀﺧأ يﺎﺷ jokes, to maintain their emotional
balance. Humor helps them release
A lot of studies show that the general feelings of anger so that they don’t build
mood of Egyptian people leans more up. This also explains why Egyptians take
ages to revolt. Egyptians use humor to
toward sadness. This is also evident cope, survive, and get through this tough
in our culture and civilization, where life they live. They laugh, even though
the idea of death was central to the they’re not necessarily happy. They might
Egyptian civilization; the pharaohs even overreact during happy situations
left us “the book of the dead” and because they fear that they won’t last.
tombs, not castles. And we Sometimes, there’s just nothing that could
commemorate the death of our loved be done to change the reality. And unless
ones after the passage of 40 days and we cope with dreadful situations, we’ll be
a year, … etc. Besides that, other emotionally drained. If humor helps you
factors affect the general mood of cope and ease the tension, then good for
Egyptians, such as the feeling of you! However, we need to be mindful of
humiliation, political oppression, and when we laugh. My concern here is when
poverty. we laugh at inappropriate times and the
fine line between what’s meme-material
Psychologically, however, humor and and what’s simply not, gets fainter. And
sadness do not contradict. According don’t get me wrong, I love having a good
to Dr. Nabil Ragheb, an Egyptian laugh! But there are instances when we
critic and writer, although the need to set jokes aside and face the issue
manifestations of sadness are at hand.
ingrained in the Egyptian cultural
heritage, this has never managed to
deprive them of their love of humor
and joy.
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