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unexpected fluctuations, jealousy and Jaro Hilbert, A Conversation of Four Bedouins, Oil
hatred, or they are boiling inside with on canvas, 183 x 172 cm.
anger or burning for revenge. There is no
reflex at all: redness of the face, or sudden Théodore Frère, 1814 / 1888, Corner in Cairo, Oil
pallor which can signal the struggle of on wood, 26.5 x 35.5 cm.
those emotions that shake them.”
Although the clear and inaccurate
generalizations in these descriptions by
Chabrol of the characteristics of Egyptians
during the French expedition to Egypt
(1801-1798), they may also be accurate
in describing them to Egyptians, which
may also conform to the modern term we
use it in modern psychological studies:
the emotional equilibrium, “also the
emotional dullness, Chabrol attributed
that character or this stunning inertia of
features” as he said, first, to the weather,
the way of education, the believe in the
judiciary and ability, as well as "they used
to always be vulnerable to the whims of
tyrants oppressed by the country."
We find that Chabrol has linked
this characteristic "the complete static
features" to another characteristic which
is "obliviousness artificiality"; "every day
there are new mistakes and ugliness,
including obliviousness that for the
Egyptians and the East in general it is a
kind of trick to face this abuse.”
Thus, people in Egypt and the East
generally developed, as he said, a ploy
to confront injustice by ignoring it and
getting used to it: “when a person is
punished for a movement or a look, or
sometimes just for suspicion, as if he has
committed a crime, he has acquired a
profound capacity for assimilation and
representation so that these unfair things
become normal.”
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hatred, or they are boiling inside with on canvas, 183 x 172 cm.
anger or burning for revenge. There is no
reflex at all: redness of the face, or sudden Théodore Frère, 1814 / 1888, Corner in Cairo, Oil
pallor which can signal the struggle of on wood, 26.5 x 35.5 cm.
those emotions that shake them.”
Although the clear and inaccurate
generalizations in these descriptions by
Chabrol of the characteristics of Egyptians
during the French expedition to Egypt
(1801-1798), they may also be accurate
in describing them to Egyptians, which
may also conform to the modern term we
use it in modern psychological studies:
the emotional equilibrium, “also the
emotional dullness, Chabrol attributed
that character or this stunning inertia of
features” as he said, first, to the weather,
the way of education, the believe in the
judiciary and ability, as well as "they used
to always be vulnerable to the whims of
tyrants oppressed by the country."
We find that Chabrol has linked
this characteristic "the complete static
features" to another characteristic which
is "obliviousness artificiality"; "every day
there are new mistakes and ugliness,
including obliviousness that for the
Egyptians and the East in general it is a
kind of trick to face this abuse.”
Thus, people in Egypt and the East
generally developed, as he said, a ploy
to confront injustice by ignoring it and
getting used to it: “when a person is
punished for a movement or a look, or
sometimes just for suspicion, as if he has
committed a crime, he has acquired a
profound capacity for assimilation and
representation so that these unfair things
become normal.”
202
