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papillon said:I just wonder, since QN's children are bicultural and were exposed to both sets of influences, where they've landed on the independent/dependent continuum.
An interesting question you've posed papillon.
I guess having been raised in Jordan and having been educated in the western world, and having a western-born, educated and raised mother has influenced them somewhat. (I think that Noor, even though she moved to Jordan and very much became Jordanian during her marriage to King Hussein, was still influenced somewhat by her western upbringing and life pre-marriage to King Hussein.)
I cannot say what the "climate" of such a scenario is in Jordan as I do not know from friends or from my own experience, but in North America, such a straddling of two cultures and two worlds of lifestyles co-existing is pretty commonplace. Kids who grow up where each of the parents come from different cultures and backgrounds or who are raised in a more traditional background at home but are exposed to a modern, contemporary life amongst friends, often etch out something in between for themselves. Kids often take what they can live with or like from each world and blend it into something that works for them and their families.
As a stab (based just on very superficial stories I've read and appearances), it seems to me that Noor's children (at least her sons so far) have proudly accepted many of the cultural aspects of Jordanian life such as the culture, the way of dressing and the discretion of the Jordanian people and blended it with a more independent, self-sufficient western way of life.