ABSTRACT

When an ‘underdeveloped’ country sets its feet upon the road towards a modern industrial society, it often wants to forget the primitive way of life which its people had in former times. No country could have moved further or changed faster than Kuwait, but its leaders are anxious not to lose sight of their own past. In the small, pious, industrious, community of thirty years ago, life had few comforts; but the older generation can remember that Kuwaitis were not unhappy in spite of the austerity of those times. They have no cause to feel there was anything discreditable about the simple life of the olden days.