Worst Kept Secrets of Maldives...

Number One
Everyone sleeps around. When it comes out its such a big deal. When someones bf sneaks into her room, or when someone sneaks out in the middle of the night or hides away in some deep dark corner somewhere you are to assume that they were reciting holy Quran. Unless caught in the act - then you are to act very, very shocked. And very very ashamed. If you are to hear about you must, by all means gasp loudly and condemn such disgusting promiscuity and lack of religiousness or whatever. Of course, you're going to go home, meet your someone and do the same thing, but hey, that's different.
Whilst on the subject I'd like to just mention that there are no REAL birth control or abortion choices available (unless you're married, pretty much all you can get is rubber, which is pretty usless and lots of people are latex intolerant by the way, and there is the whole you don't want anyone you know seeing you buy it and thats hard to do when you're avoiding basically the whole country).
You could blame it on religious, cultural stigma. I think yeah, of course there's that too but I think it's mostly to do with the male dominant society. Come on girls, every frikking grown man is SO freaking SUPRISED no actually, SHOCKED if you talk about even the possibility of pregnancy (innit?) it's like they don't realise that when you make babies, eventually you make babies :P ... LOL yes boys, sex does equal pregancy - a lot of the time!


Number Two
Every businessman (and many others from the baby boomer generation) drinks and probably has smoked up or does smoke up. Of course they preach holy verses to their liberated children (and yes, they were the ones that actually fought for that freedom) about control and how to conduct themselves... and the children grow up to be a well, not children anymore (again SHOCK, SUPRISE) and their brains DO eventually start to FUNCTION and they come to REALISE that their parents are pretty much the SAME. Thus they also follow in the same footsteps and the damned parents have the NERVE to COMPLAIN. So basically just about every teenager especially from educated parents(:P) smokes up, drinks or both. In the event that you come across an intoxicated Maldivian you are expected to make polite conversation and pretend that you do not notice (some of many):
(a) the highly obvious and somewhat nauseating stench
(d) that he/she/it/they has a bottle coke in his hand but the liquid is orange in colour
(c) that you and your friend are speaking different languages
(d) that your friend apparently has three cigarrettes with him and they are all of different shapes, sizes and colours
(e) that your friend is on top of someone that is definitely not his/her spouse
ETC, ETC

Number Three
This is my last since I've realised I might just go on till forever. Nobody tells the truth about anything. We speak for effect and it's like speech is simply what we would like you to believe. What really goes on is damn obvious so the only way we can save our pride is simply, to pretend that everything is just hunky dory. So, if you're in Maldives, I advise you that honesty is really not the best policy in fact I should steer clear of it if I were you - you gonna get totally screwed.
Save being a good person for elsewhere. Think of it like this - you are in rural, uncivilized, barbaric lands. Its not about morality, it's about survival.

*Sigh. I love my homeland.*