Rodney Atkins Quotes
I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
Atkins, Rodney. Interview. Country Weekly, vol. 14, no. 5, 2007.
At the time, headwear identified the wearer’s caste and class. Fezes, Turbans, etc. were eliminated in favor of hats. This was Ataurk’s solution to two problems: He wanted to have Turkey modernize and develop along the lines of Western democracy and the traditional Islamic headgear being replaced by Western hats were daily symbols of the national modernization. The second advantage was that Turks could no longer identify caste and class by the traditional headgear and the society became much more egalitarian which it has been ever since.
In 1925 his administration had passed a law banning the wearing of the traditional Muslim hat. See {593676} for his reasoning.
Rodney Allan Atkins is an American country music singer and songwriter. Signed to Curb Records in 1996, he charted his first single on the Billboard country chart in 1997, but did not release an album until 2003's Honesty, which included the number 4 hit "Honesty (Write Me a List)".
