General Knowledge Question:
In which self-governing country do the locals feel insecure on the streets?

Sasan, a student I have been working with for months now, seems so ready to take the IELTS. He’s a very smart and open-minded person and our classes together have always been filled with long debates. We were having a class yesterday evening when the subject of “government corruption” came up and got him started on a very interesting theory he holds. Sasan thinks that in our country, values have always been attributed to religion. He gave me an example on this: “If fifty years ago, you asked a westerner why it was wrong to lie, he would explain to you the harm it would do to the individual and to the society; if you asked an Iranian, he would say: It’s a big sin. It leads you to hell.” The problem is, Sasan thinks, religion is fading in our society and with it, fade social values. He thinks this has led to growing Nihilism among people and therefore, lack of morality. Please post your comments.

The picture on today’s entry, I took a week ago. The building on the right is the newly-constructed “International Tower of Tehran” and the one on the left is one of the three ASP towers.