"Before the war, no one knew about the cultures from outside, but now so many people know about Western culture," says Kawakeb Salah Hamed, a sociology professor at Baghdad University.

“战争之前，大家对来自外界的文化一无所知，不过现在有那么多人喜欢西方文化”，巴格达大学社会学教授卡瓦科布·萨拉汉·哈米德认为。