Based on the examples in the book, would you conclude that humans are more likely to behave with kindness or cruelty?
Although Zeitoun shows great empathy and kindness, the world isn't that nice to him. It was Zeitoun's experience that what American's found most distasteful about Arabs was their Islamic religion. The hijabs that Muslim women had to wear were a source of annoyance to many people. Kathy Zeitoun experienced this bias even from her own family—even her loving mother who told her that she could take "that thing" off her head when Zeitoun wasn't around. The guards at the prison where Zeitoun was taken were cruel and unkind to all the prisoners. But when Zeitoun knelt on the floor and faced Mecca to pray, the guards became even more derisive.
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