for stella

Submitted by Miriam (United States), Jun 12, 2008 at 09:22

but get my point- i am also a western woman as much as i am a moroccan woman. i'm not trying to say that moroccan men and women dont hide behind their religion but where is your evidence that i am in any way hiding behind mine--- and what am i hiding from? and did you even know what my religion is? there are jews and christians in morocco as well as muslims.

i know the kind of people you talk about and these people exist in every country, in which the people live their lives as "bad" as they want and then always have their religion to fall back on.. but as far as im concerned i have nothing to hide and im not going out tramping and then wearing a scarf over my head in the day time, so i think thats really not your place to point fingers. as far as painting western women with some sense of naivity, for the more ignorant and unfortunately usually poor moroccan men this is how they see women who come visit on vacation... and it is the poor moroccan men who often are the ones taking advantage of foriegn women. alright so i may have made my point crudely but essentially what i was doing was giving advice to this woman who feels she may be being taken advantage of; so it's important to know that moroccans do tend to have a view of western people as all rich, and that there are cases in which women are seriously taken advantage of because of this idea..

in these cases its as if the man from morocco who in this case is probably poor is essentially living in his own world.. or at least not a world that the woman can partake in being that his world is so utterly based on surviving. there can be a HUGE gap of unsderstanding in these cases, especially when the man is not intent at all in having a relationship but rather making this woman his scape goat. ok excuse me for my contradictions if there are some, im not a scholar, just trying to put my thoughts out there. i appreciate your analysis of my comments its always good to be corrected not on the fundamental idea (though sometimes it wouldnt hurt) but rather on the way it is presented. OK best of luck to you stella.

Miriam

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