>>1554648I was too young to remember the Gulf War, though my siblings were; I personally am ambivalent towards Iraqi's, but I can understand why so many Kuwaiti's dislike or outright hate them.
Before the Gulf War Kuwaiti's and Iraqi's were close, we have similar accents, and there wasn't a border between our two countries, you could drive in and out without a second doubt, trade was good from what I have heard.
We supported Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, but when Saddam went bankrupt, he invaded to help his economy.
A lot of Kuwaiti's died, and I don't think relations between Iraq's and Kuwaiti's will ever reach a point of normalization again, knowing that some of the people who tortured and killed your family members are roaming around freely in Iraq.
>>1554656>Assuming you are like Qatar and BahrainKuwait's sunni/shia population is split 50/50, while in Qatar and Bahrain shia's are a minority, and are (not to sound like a leftist) but oppressed, even though Kuwait and Iran have had proxy wars in the past, as well as with the rest of the GCC, religious ideology is so ingrained into the culture and people that I don't see it leaving anytime soon.
As for Shia's and Sunni's, I think the peace between those two sects is a uniquely Kuwaiti thing, since those two sects have never lived peacefully in other countries before.
The thwarting of religious values and tradition generally stem from marxist academia, Europe and America used to, for the most part be religious, it wasn't until the mid 20th century that they became vaguely agnostic - so even though this is a hypotheses of mine, due to the fact that such ideology has left this country untainted, it will remain as such until either tradition decays, or corrupt academia reaches us.
