World Views

Exercise #2

          Different countries/continents believe that different things are illegal, and their rules support their beliefs. In a situation where a Qatari local student who happens to study abroad in the UK comes across an over-the-counter drug in the UK, which is labeled legal there and becomes rather attached to it.

            The problem starts when the Qatari man tries to bring the drug into Qatar, but is disallowed to and feels the need to simply smuggle the drug in, because of how attached he has become to it.

            The conflict is mainly between the Qatari man with his drug usage and the Qatari society, which finds this very unacceptable due to the many factors, such as the religious beliefs, the law supporting those beliefs and the society which does not accept such behavior.

            I’ve chosen this article because of how it involves all the aspects of every cultural view (I/G; H/S; P/F) in more than one sense.

I/G: The man knew he was bringing an illegal substance into the country, thus making it obvious that he was to blame for the incident. But, knowing that the substance was legal in the country he was in, makes this somewhat confusing.

H/S: It’s shameful that the man was simply using the substance both in a matter of the society and for the man himself as it it’s also a religious matter, not to mention that he tried to bring it into the country illegally.

P/F: The substance the man tried to smuggle into the country was legal in the country he brought it from, but not legal in Qatar. Thus, he is punishable by the law of Qatar, which he has willingly broken.