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Originally posted by: KashFanatic
lol i'll take that as a yes
when i moved school and didnt used to wear my headscarf people asked me are you italian ? when i said no im bengali they were like whats that 😕 somepeople also think u cant be bengali and muslim 😆sometimes just odd stares and that 😕 u know cuz i wear a headscarf it used to be more frequent before cuz i was the only person person in my school who used to wear one ..but now there's loadss of people in who and once someone said paki =S
Sorry to go back to old topics, but I wasn't here during the day so I just saw this. I know that in the UK the word "paki" is used as a derogatory word. Many use it a short for Pakistani in other places, but I learned that many take offense to it as it is used as a blanket term to describe South Asians in a derogatory fashion by British people because they feel more comfortable "otherizing" those that are different from them rather than learning and gaining familiarity, they would rather turn to fear and hate.
That is awful about your experience. Many of my peers and well very dear friends have started wearing the head scarf when they went to high school. Their mothers do not wear them, but they have chosen to due to their religious commitment. Also, I realize I think it is a bit of political expression. Because they feel they show their pride for their faith and must not cower in silence and hide, who they are or be marginalized by those that they believe are misrepresenting them. So I completely admire them for that because they chose to do it and were not forced to, and living where we do, which is not the most tolerant or liberal place, I think it is pretty gutsy after seeing the dirty or more like suspicious looks I get when we hang out at an amusement park or county fair. After 9/11, the fear and the way people are looked at appalled me some because I hadn't experienced such tension since I had been in the States in public on the public transport system, seeing the way people were looked at or how tense people became scared me. Or the fact that my friends in a Sardar family, felt like they must put a proud to be an American sticker, after living here for 20 years, because some crazy lunatic went and shot a Sikh man in a gas station in Texas some months after 9/11 because he thought he was "Muzlin" (see crazy John McCain supporter, who tried to accuse Obama of this, see how suspicion of being of a certain religion causes distrust of voters...sickening)just irritates me. I wish everyone in the world could stop prejudging everyone on their assumptions. Why do always have to know someone of that background to somehow relate to their experience? Whether that may relate to issues such as the way homosexuality or any other social issue is related to. Stop otherizing, this has gone back to the ancient river valley civilizations. And I understand where this sentiment comes from, but it is incredibly grating to me.
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