This will make a great example in future CRM courses !
After all, CRM is like time: it has been invented by the Whites... for the Whites !
Although the Egyptians were building pyramids while Europeans and Americans were still living in the woods (or so), now they're having a really hard time with some of the basics of CRM. Down there you don't question the captain's authority, period !
Remember the fight between the captain and the F/O of a Turkish Airlines A340 ? They weren't on the ground anymore, but at FL3-something. I think they were fighting for a chick (F/A ?).
This is just a cultural issue, so maybe we should pay more attention and respect to their problems and encourage their efforts, don't you think ?
Joking is okay, but let's not push it too far. I wish the F/O could tell us what really happened... if it ever happened.