An amusing story to share from one of the mailing lists I'm on

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I told this one before but here  it is again. A female USAID worker went to Afghanistan in the 80's and she came back in 2007, she was amazed to see that women were now walking in front of men,  she told her Afghan translator " I am amazed the progress your country has made  regarding women's rights, when I was here 20 years ago a woman had to walk  behind the man, now, they walk ahead of them" The Afghan man looked pleased, and  replied "Yes, landmines".