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Shortly before the arab spring, like couple months maybe, I was in Tunisia with my folks. We had polish speaking guide but he was a local. He studied in Poland and lived here for a while so he knew the language quite well.
My father was giving him a lot of question regarding the ancient history of this region but after a while he straight up asked why do they call their country democratic when they had the same president for over 20 years. The man responded that there's democracy in Tunisia, but they can't have too much democracy otherwise the country will just plunge into chaos which will kill tourism industry, and tourism is the main income source for basically everyone there.

Came back home and some time later news about happenings across north africa started to appear.
I think about it a lot.