4). Another and equally important aspect, as Mackey states, is that Arabs who have been urbanized and otherwise modernized "both disdain the Bedouin and, at the same time, harbor a romantic love for the nomadic life and the simplicity, dignity, and virtue of the desert" (21).
The presumed virtues and loyalties implied by the harsh realities desert subsistence living, however, come with a cost. As Mackey notes, "The price the individual had to pay for this protection was strict conformity to the family's values and code of behavior. A Bedouin internalized these to the extent that he ceased to identify himself emotionally as an individual" (Mackey 24). To put it another way, the Bedouin h
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