Barbara Walters of 20/20 (USA-ABC Television) did a
story on gender roles in Kabul, Afghanistan, several
years before the Afghan conflict. She noted that women
customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.
She recently returned to Kabul and observed that
women still walk behind their husbands. From Ms.
Walters' vantage point, despite the overthrow of the
oppressive Taliban regime, the women now seem to walk
even further back behind their husbands and are happy
to maintain the old custom. So Ms. Walters approached
one of the Afghani women and asked, "Why do you now
seem happy with the old custom that you once tried so
desperately to change?"
The woman looked Ms.Walters straight in the eyes and
without hesitation said, "Land mines."
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За сим следовала расшифровка морали сей басни. Правда, несмешная.