Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
The man who set himself on fire in Tunisia who is "credited" with starting this whole revolution, wasn't a poor man. He was an educated middle class man who saw his prospects of bettering his lot in life crushed by the financial crisis of 2008.
I heard it said on telly that supposedly he came from outside the traditional boundaries of the old Roman colony. Apparently inside that boundary has historically been integrated one way or another into the European economy.