Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust
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Interdependence in the Middle East
In the 18th century, a French political writer Montesquieu claimed that poor people show more hospitality to strangers on average. Do you think he was right? I think it has to do with many things, not only with economical factors. For example, if you go to countries like Ethiopia, in Africa, where you can find really poor people by our standards, and then you will not find or receive as much hospitality as we have seen in Muslim countries such as Iran or Syria. So there are many, many indicators or things that could make that right.
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