I was joking with a colleague yesterday and hypothesizing that the youth bulge in North African and Middle Eastern countries, combined with the restrictive nature of most MENA societies (particularly in the realms of sex, drugs, and alcohol) would lead to risk taking behavior being present in other ways. I used the following picture as my tongue-in-cheek evidence.
This morning I woke up to see the headline “Eight Kuwaitis killed, 14 injured in ‘illegal’ car race” on Dawn. There might be something to this.

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