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What questions, if any,do you have for Egyptians about Egypt?

yea, unfortunately there is that stereotypical idea about egypt all over the world. however, egypt is much more developed than the images you see on google.egypt is not only about camels, deserts an pyramids. it has technology like the rest of the world. we use the same ways of transporations like all other developed countries. we have hotels, malls ,established universities and schools. egypt is a lot more than what you think of. i suggest that you come for a visit and give it a try cuz in egypt there is that exquisite atmoshpere and hospitality that is not there in any other country all over the world. what's also really good about egypt is that wherever you come from you'll find guides who speak your language and help u enjoy your trip.unlike, other countries where you have to stick to their language in order to survive. I recomend that you come and visit our blessed country to see how it is completely different from what you think of.

Well every society has its own stereotypes about other societies. When I think France, I think Eiffel tower, Louvre museum and romantic cafes. Obviously, there is more to France than this. However, it is interesting to note that it is different with the US. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the media we are exposed to (e.g. Hollywood, cable news, etc.) comes from there and thus our perception of it is fairly realistic. Those without access to American media though will still hold their stereotypes. And even we who do have access, instead of stereotyping the US as a whole, we just stereotype different groups.

I completely agree with Dalia and Ahmed. We were trying to emphasize the influence the media has on stereotyping different destinations which unfortunately do not always represent the country's authentic culture. I am sure that there are also manyy stereotypical images of the United States propagated by the popular media, which as Ahmed said, do not represent our country as a whole. A solution to this problem is of course to visit the country!

It definitely is too bad that all these stereotypes are still prevalent even after so many changes have occurred. If you had to give a brief synopsis of Egypt to someone who had these stereotypes, how would you choose to reshape their ideas of Egypt?

I think tourism is the best way to dissolve stereotypes and re-shape one's preconceived beliefs. Of course, a country's history defines its main tourists attractions, but one's ideas about the people of the authentic culture can only be shaped by personal experience.

The stereotypes you write about seem somewhat accurate, but I don't think that all Americans view Egypt like that. Although I have not been to Egypt myself, I imagine that the cities are busy areas filled with many people, rather than camels and pyramids in a sand storm.

I would agree with you that Hollywood does not do a great job advertising modern day Egypt, but I would say that many movies are scripted like this.

Do you have any suggestions for movies, books, or other media sources which portray modern day Egypt?

I totally agree with dalia. you have to come visit our country then you could judge. however, do not go around saying that people in Egypt still wear the pharaoh's clothes, ride camels or they are undeveloped crowd living in a desert.before saying all of this one must go visit and then talk about Egypt.Anyway my point is that we do not ride camels, we d not wear those types of clothes and we certainly are developed people living in a city fulled with malls,buildings,centers,clubs,houses,
and universities. plus we ride cars like other developed countries.the point which I wanted to talk about and believe that it is very important and true is that we(Egyptians) are believed to be kind and hospitable, any where you go you will find people that guide (if your lost),be kind to you and hospital(if one is hungry or cold).so do not go around judging us without coming and paying a visit.

I would like to show you that all of americans have lost site of what egypt is all about. I have much a preciation for what our ancestors from Misa have done. I would like for you to read an article I just wrote the other night: I, Bryan D. Hamlin, am intending this to be a short peice at the moment just for an article as to get my claim out to people simply so I get a feel as to what people think of my claims. Also because my work is continual. I have come to gain a belief about our ancient brothers and sisters from the Nile. I believe the egyptain people built for everyone the realm of the After-Life, not did they just endulge upon this original thought but also formed this idea into a widely known concept and an overall belief among the people of the land some 5,000 years ago and then some.Egyptians are the ones who were first to use sarcauphagus's and mummies to bury the dead as well as design orinate objects, hieroglyphs, and hieroglyphics specifically for conveying knowledge of ideas thoughts and concepts believed and taught to be the way into the afterlife. These people used every possible inscribtion, picture, statue, artwork, story and prayer need to set forth the final motions for the after life to become an imbedded option available for belief, from the lands of god himself. All I intend to do in this article is give sufficent claims to back my current claim and all my ideas are from researched and studyed information, and is not by any means chancey or illcredited and this is just a claim being as that I am convinced and have seen no one else stand up and say it. If I use an idea out of the blue I may not try to defend where I got it from as this would cause long off track conversations and would like to save those for another time if you feel I am talking with no solid backing use the internet and reasearch my claims. I have recently found out that everything in this universe vibrates, yes like a sound frequency we and everything arounds us is in a constant vibration in it's individual frequency for example an apple, a dog, a flower, a brick, a glass, water, cotton, limestone, people(vibrate at roughly 570 trillion Hz that's 570 trillion times a second), everything has it own tone, overtone, or undertone to it that it puts off. sound vibration has come along way because this has been jumped up to the front of my attention as the source of all lifes energy which has set life into motion. Resonance is fundamentaly amazing because this is who your world is built before you in a sense. Given that each object, item, picture, letter, number, word, feeling, or even a thought has it's own vibration you start to think about just how many different vibrations there are and how many your sending off when it's broken up. Colors, writing, logos, shapes, patterns, kinds of fabric, types of liquids, metals, woods, pictures, scultures, video games, magazines, movies, cell phones, cars, hats, planets, stars , galaxies, snowflakes. pieces of cereal, pennies-nickels-dimes-quarters and people just to name a couple. Now take note that the human eyes have over 44 billion bits of information flying infront of them at all times yet are only capable of observing around 2,000 of those 44 billion. That leaves a large untouched portion of reality. This is belived to do a great deal with resonance. Only frequencies that are on the same vibration can interact and share there energy,life, and experience with one another in strick accordance to the rules involving that any and all frequencies have to either be in a doubbling pattern such as two-fold, four-fold, eight-fold, sixteen-fold ECT. frequencies can also resonate with each other when frequencies are reduced as well such as one-half, one-quarter, one-eighth, one-sixteenth ECT. With the function of resonation it gives you an idea of just how we have so many things in our world. This is the cause for the basic flow of energy throughout the cosmos and is orcistrated by none other than god. This basic law of constant vibration along with another new concept is the law of attraction which involves the power of the mind and the fact that what you think of with your powerful mind's eye is drawn to you, as if your thoughts are magnetic rings of wi-fi spining out of your head pulling toward you what ever it is you have set your concious thoughts on and for the most part are manifested based on the duration of the thoughts, the intricacies of the ideas and the determining factor is the repatition of that thought,like how often a thought or idea is triggerred by a picture, word, sound, person, scenery, motion or other thoughts. This is widely known as manifesting today and is a skill which can be improved upon with practice and devotion to the sense of truth that is shown to everyone of us at every moment by the true source of light and understanding. so with that said I I want to point out the age and time of the egyptians, they had a vastly different culture and know how then we as people do today back some 5,ooo years ago when the work on there temples began. I believe that there reasoning for building there temples with such craftsmanship and placeing them on mathmatical geographical locations read from the stars (which in there time were the heavens) and stories scribed in perfection, hieroglyphs and hieroglyphics sealing the thoughts and beliefes of the pharohs (who are said to have had one foot in the world of the living and the other foot in the world of the supreme god) carved in stone, built into temples and worshiped as law to the soul. With all taken into account when the people of egypt lived they didn't have much to distract them other then work, people, and buildings/temples. While they worked they worked on temples and scultures and scriptures of these gods and beliefs for thousands of years. look at the number of egypytian artifacts and remains there still are this expansion was due to the lack of available options of variety in the enviorment for creative stimulants thus making the law of attraction work with ease. If all you see is egyptian people, art, scultures, writing, gods, temples and religion your mind is forced into creating more of the same. remember the vibrations, these people were surrounded by the belief of the after life. all of there civilization worked toward the building of artifacts to further carry on there existance of the After-Life. With all the symbology, the repatition, the duration, and the mastered intracacies of how the afterlife worked with the logic and reasoning behind there spirituality they were at least successful in creating and leaving open for all the realm of the After-Life. This vibration is still spread today with a new twist of light, the bible. It borrows this idea of there being a life after death yet it talks of you only getting this one life followed by either eternal hell or everlasting heaven. I like the egyptians way of thinking better. I interpret it like so You live the life you've been given and enevitably die being sent to the after life where you are by the powers of god given life after death where by then living again you must die which leads back to the gates of the After-Life. A continuous cycle with no end that I feel is a general representation for all energy that is pure such as your soul or sunlight, not our conciouness, our conciouness is nothing more than a representation of the ever growing ever changing universe that we live in while at the same time think it up. answer these one by one. (what state are you in? what country is that in? where is it located, on earth? and where is earth located? and where are the galaxies located? and what about the universes? Thats right it's an idea in your head, just an imagination. So what do you think did the egyptians really brainstorm the After-Life into exisstance? Email me with any responses please and I'll awnser them as I have the time and ability to. Kolours420@gmail.com

I am exploring some of the same issues on my website Great Egypt

I am looking into what was great egypt in antiquity, and what it is shaping up to be these days.

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hi it amy what is it like in egypt
do you still built pyriamids in egypt are they still pharohs in egypt to boss you around i feel sorry for yous love from amy

hi it amy what is it like in egypt
do you still built pyriamids in egypt are they still pharohs in egypt to boss you around i feel sorry for yous love from amy

hi it amy what is it like in egypt
do you still built pyriamids in egypt are they still pharohs in egypt to boss you around i feel sorry for yous love from amy

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hi my name is amy i am 8 yars old i am doing a proejet at my school ancient Egypt can i have some information please love from amy

um, no we dont have pharoahs to boss us around. you can stop feeling sorry for us, amy. we dont STILL build pyramids. they were built thousands of years ago. "hehe, love alex!"

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