Fair point, Gypsy, though I'm not sure we really know what the men "did". If it was just a simple dressing down (if you'll excuse the phrase) that's not so awful; the way teenagers learn the limits of rebellion is when their (overhanging) bottoms get kicked a bit, figuratively speaking. If the men were truly abusive and threatening, that is a different matter.
I don't think anybody has asked why some jumped-up security guard apparently thought he was entitled to take her ID card (and presumably note her details) which seems to me to be overstepping the mark far more than dressing "inappropriately" or simply telling off the person doing so.
Teenage rebellion is, by its nature, doing what is unacceptable to the old farts. This thread seems to indicate that there are some Westerners who psychologically are still in the teenage-rebellion stage, not against their parents but against the host society.
Maybe that is just what it is, a hard-wired rebellion against established order: instead of the "cool" in-thing being teen culture and the old farts being parents, the "cool" in-thing is Western culture and the old farts are the locals. If so, the "rebels" are unlikely to escape from their current thinking, because time will not automatically transport them to the "old fart" stage, which is what normally happens to teenagers. Well, it's just an idea.
Fair point, Gypsy, though I'm not sure we really know what the men "did". If it was just a simple dressing down (if you'll excuse the phrase) that's not so awful; the way teenagers learn the limits of rebellion is when their (overhanging) bottoms get kicked a bit, figuratively speaking. If the men were truly abusive and threatening, that is a different matter.
I don't think anybody has asked why some jumped-up security guard apparently thought he was entitled to take her ID card (and presumably note her details) which seems to me to be overstepping the mark far more than dressing "inappropriately" or simply telling off the person doing so.
Teenage rebellion is, by its nature, doing what is unacceptable to the old farts. This thread seems to indicate that there are some Westerners who psychologically are still in the teenage-rebellion stage, not against their parents but against the host society.
Maybe that is just what it is, a hard-wired rebellion against established order: instead of the "cool" in-thing being teen culture and the old farts being parents, the "cool" in-thing is Western culture and the old farts are the locals. If so, the "rebels" are unlikely to escape from their current thinking, because time will not automatically transport them to the "old fart" stage, which is what normally happens to teenagers. Well, it's just an idea.