If there is one thing you could change about Egypt, what would it be?

They asked my younger sister in Georgetown univ. undergrad. admission interview, "If there was one thing you could change about Egypt what would it be?" and in a firm decisive tone she said, "its people"!

I don't know whether to applaude her honesty, or like in the denmark issue dillema, condemn her unsensetive, could be even offending, freedom of speech. her words, little as they may seem, might not only upset the over 70 million subjects in our love it-then hate it-then love it...etc homeland, but will also dissapoint the fairly large anti-government fraction who would have been expecting an answer that is more coherent with thier non-hidden agendas. But let me here borrow what my father said in similar yet more aggressive situation, what my 17-years old sister bluntly said was "Kashef la monshe2", meaning it simply showed what was lieing there unnoticed in the corners of her mind. what she said was there, whether she said it or not.

But what would make a 17 years old girl think this way. She is tolerant, sets up her own charity projects which means she has a fair amount of social awarness. still gets nostalegetic for that tiny village in the Delta where we spent our early childhood. She is a soprano and sings opera yet she accepts and actually cherishes songs my brother listens to thats goes "el bango mish bta3y" and the like. she has always appreciated diversity. and although she confident, pretty and describes herself as a red-carpet-material, she is not vain or fake. She was the first ever to make me notice how the kind of culture that includes an enlarged channel sunglasses along with the prada shoe and the hand bag that worthes a three figure number one noticably find redundant around campus here at AUC, is an indicator of an ugly gap between social classes. she is a strong advocate for social equality. yet she says the thing she want to change about Egypt is its people!

To be saying this in favor of an elitest status quo is not even a possibility for yasmine and the higher social class are in fact so little to be called "the people". why then does yasmine want to change teh people?