Over 95% of adult Kuwaitis work for the government, usually in white-collar civil-service jobs.
Kuwait is once more in the hands of Kuwaitis, in control of their own destiny.
On the Friday before the election tens of thousands of Kuwaitis protested against the poll.
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In many different decades Kuwaitis have protested against the leadership and have always won.
FORBES: The Arab Spring Comes To Kuwait: Will Democracy Arrive And Liberty Thrive?
The personal, family, and social ties which tightly bind many Kuwaitis have not disappeared.
FORBES: The Arab Spring Comes To Kuwait: Will Democracy Arrive And Liberty Thrive?
Some Kuwaitis even questioned the monarchy, whose ruling family goes back centuries in this region.
FORBES: The Arab Spring Comes To Kuwait: Will Democracy Arrive And Liberty Thrive?
Kuwaitis also want to see their country resume its traditional role in the region.
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The Kuwaiti government embarked this year on a bid to reserve 25% of industrial jobs for Kuwaitis.
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With minor exceptions, their borders long a source of trouble, as Kuwaitis can attest have been fixed for good.
Mr. Mutairi was among 12 Kuwaitis picked up in Afghanistan and detained at Guantanamo Bay in 2002.
However, this history has less meaning for younger Kuwaitis, who make up a majority of the population.
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Kuwaitis traditionally chose four candidates, leading to complaints that the largest tribes traded votes and shut out smaller communities.
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Thousands of Saudis, Kuwaitis, and Qataris share tribal kinship with their Syrian cousins.
The next highest is Syrians, Kuwaitis and then throughout the Middle East, the Gulf, North Africa and Europe, as well.
They also want Baghdad to account for hundreds of Kuwaitis and other nationals who went missing during Iraq's occupation of Kuwait.
As the current political crisis a word increasingly used plays out, Kuwaitis may find themselves with something closer to a popularly elected government.
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Specifically, has he been in contact with Saudi leaders, Kuwaitis, Moroccans, Qataris?
Nonetheless, both male and female Kuwaitis were keener to vote under a new constituency system which is meant to be harder to rig.
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The list also names three extreme-left Greek organisations - November 17, Revolutionary Cells and Revolutionary Popular Struggle - and individuals include Saudis, Lebanese and Kuwaitis.
Similarly, the Kuwaiti parliament's call for the oil industry to be 100% Kuwaiti is wonderfully unrealistic: few Kuwaitis would accept a job away from a desk.
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To cite just one example, of the 12 Kuwaitis seized in Afghanistan who claimed they were doing charitable missionary work, eight were sent home, tried and acquitted.
For years the government had turned a blind eye to Kuwaitis illegally building diwaniyas a kind of salon, which is a cornerstone of Kuwaiti social life on public land.
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Nominally, CMS is an U.S. company and therefore appears to be benefiting from the preferred consideration the Kuwaitis pledged to give U.S. enterprises in reconstructing their ravaged country.
But he accused the leadership of Kuwait of conspiring "hand in hand" with those who were preparing to attack Iraq, and urged Kuwaitis to join the fight against this.
It's not a sexy image, unless you've spent a month in the desert alone with a herd of camels, but it's still considered too explosive for Kuwaitis to handle.
Nominally, CMS is an U.S. company -- and therefore appears to be benefiting from the preferred consideration the Kuwaitis pledged to give U.S. enterprises in reconstructing their ravaged country.
Given their huge stockpile of national savings from the oil boom years, plus plenty of continued income despite the drop in oil prices, Kuwaitis can probably afford to go on bickering anyway.
Ordinary Kuwaitis are wary not only of further dithering over such things as a planned bail-out package for financial institutions hit by the global recession and an oft-delayed mega-project to develop new oilfields.
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