Video travel to the East 10.2007
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Turkish women and donkeys
When tourists come to East countries they can see a woman in a veil or in a paranja in the street. She will attract attention of Europeans at once. People will follow her with curious sights and sympathetic sighs. A veil makes women similar to each other; it is difficult to find one of them in a crowd. However each of these women is individuality. Europeans don’t used to these rules. We’ll make a quotation about Turkish women in veils from a book written by Le Corbusier "Travel to the East".
‛…" And there is a lot of sunlight in them! And these women… are charming under their mysterious black coverings, in exciting anonymity of their silk, in their ugly bearing. They are charming, despite and because of their second skirt thrown over a head and forming an impenetrable visor. And under these coverings there are coquettish girls: I swear… that almost all of them are young, beautiful, with plum ivory legs and gazelle eyes…! Besides, under these coverings there is a secret into which it is possible to penetrate. I feel that thousands of them want to be beautiful….
There is something genius in them: they are slaves of despotic but maybe and reasonable custom, which we consider shameful and humiliating.
But somehow they become individualities in their identical clothes…. How they do it? They just want to be beautiful, and thus they perform their first female duty …"
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