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thats the Egyptian personality they loves to talk and talk and talk no matter what they are saying    but you can say they wants to make relation  but in their own way which is not acceptable sometimes.

It's not just about talking to much! ( need attention). Anyway, I just shared this experienced bcoz I hate this kind of question especially if your riding a taxi. And sometimes the way of asking is impolite...

well, you should expect this stuff in Egypt not all the people is good here.

hey Emzkie..you forgot to mention ...Taxi do ask the following

Where you live ?

Are you married ?

Where do you work ?

Which company do you work ?

and list goes on if you keep answering ..sometimes its ok! but at time I get a little irritated when they start interrogating you

aha... you have hit the nail.... i have been asked this question 100 times everytime i go to downtown over the weekend.

And then they come to know that i am an Indian then , they say the following words.. "Namestay" , Amitabh Bachen, Sharukh Khan... bla bla bla...

they just thought that it s easy to catch you by those stupid question

Exactly!!!

For me, it was annoying and beside am not riding a taxi or going anywhere to tell this strange people who am I.

Hope they can avoid that mentality if they saw any foreigner and they expecting that they replied same what they thought.

Anyway, this is based on my experienced.

Even worst (and this is often) - You are not married??? Not  boyfriend???  (Moderated: no generalised statement here pls).  Well, we can't forget that under 30 years of dictatorship, gerenal education has been forgotten, and the uneducated people is like 80% of the population. I hope this will change in the future.

It has nothing to do with the education, its about your ( GMRC) means GOOD MANNERS AND RIGHT CONDUCT.

Or it's called ETIQUETTE!!!

There are some well educated people but they don't have manners.

Well, that's true. I remember my mother didn't have formal education, but she certainly had good manners, and she always made sure we had too.

Meaning, you have a good breeding family and well discipline.

This is the normal of cairo

Boules Sobhy wrote:

This is the normal of cairo

The normal person he/she will never ask this crazy question.

He/she will feel shame to himself/herself.

Especially if you don't even know the person at all.