A big thing in the Middle East is "wasta," or connections. You have to have wasta to get anything. It ranges from a small bribe at a border to securing a job at the biggest business in the country. It's funny to think that a whole region can run on this. How unfair, how dysfunctional! But, as one girl in my dorm pointed out, maybe the wasta is just exacerbated because the country is so small. Don't connections like this exist throughout the US? I kind of agreed with her, but the US also has a fully functioning bureaucracy and system where things do get done, for the most part.
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