Sudan and Sudanese have always been proud of the way they stick together as a society and a community! We all heard about the story of the Sudanese who was sick in a hospital in Saudi Arabia who had no money but when they asked him to pay he just told them to go to street and find any Sudanese and when they did that Sudanese paid the whole lot!
No one knows if this story is true or not but there is high chance it is not!
May be we used to behave like that in the past but not any more.
In the event of a social event such someone getting married or death in the family Sudanese always get together and help each other specially financially in these days! After all who can bear the cost of feeding 400 people for three days in a row?!
But what annoys me is something called the "book". After each social event family and friends get together and donate money to try and lessen the financial burden. All money is registered in a book where all the donors are registered against the amount they donated. Sounds strange, isn't?
The purpose of this book is in the event of a social occasion where there is a social requirement where you ate expected to donate money, you go back and check your book and see how much money did he or she give money and how much and accordingly you make your decision. If this is not hypocrisy I do not know what is?
It is almost like a saving account where put some money that you are expecting to get back in the future in the event of social occasions.
Hard if you have family members with good health or who never get married or fertile so you do not have to organise circumcision parties for boys!
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