Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
Interpretation
Family plays a central role in social interactions and relationships in Jordan.
This quote by Queen Rania of Jordan highlights the importance of family in the cultural context of Jordanian society. It suggests that family is not just a unit of personal relations but the foundation upon which social life is built, influencing connections and community interactions among individuals in Jordan.
In practice
In a speech about community development, one might use this quote to emphasize the role of family in fostering connections.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.β An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: βAs you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
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