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i grew up in dubai, which had the very similar concept of "wasta". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasta
by zem 10y ago
i grew up in dubai, which had the very similar concept of "wasta". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasta
- azernik 10y agoIsrael also has/had the similar concept of "protektsiya" (loanword from Russian). There's a joke (mostly making fun of modern Israeli pretensions to clean modern society) - the kids these days don't mess with protektsiya, they have "connections" (the English word) instead.
- hyh1048576 10y agoI found this paragraph in the Wikipedia page pretty amazing: > Roughly equivalent words in other languages include sociolismo in Cuba; blat in Russia; guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang, un pituto in Chilean Spanish, In Brazilian-Portuguese it is referred to as "pistolão", "QI" (Quem Indica, or Who Indicates), or in the slang "peixada", "Pidi Padu" in Malayalam, "arka" or "destek" in Turkish.