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Wearing a hijab doesn't cause anything. People having prejudice is the cause. The hijab just allows this white girl to experience it. People CAN choose their
by antoko 14y ago
Wearing a hijab doesn't cause anything. People having prejudice is the cause. The hijab just allows this white girl to experience it.
People CAN choose their religion, but should they based off of how other people make them feel about it?
You're missing a step... "Your religion makes you feel bad" NO! Other people make me feel bad about my religion. That's pretty obviously prejudice.
Also for most groups of people they don't chose their religion and can't simply change it (family pressures), and while what is described in the article refers to religion (hijab) having dark skin and speaking farsi or urdu is just as likely to cause the reaction in people due to fear of muslims, the prejudiced people are just as likely to filter on ethnic/nationality grounds as religious ones.
- guylhem 14y agoThis "white girl trying to wear an hijab" screams to me as a kind of self sabotage. She won at the genetic lottery : she conforms to the usual expectations about "looking good" in the country she lives in - did she never realized that privilege/advantage before??
- icebraining 14y agoThere's a big difference between knowing that you have an advantage and actually experience what's like not to have it. It's extremely easy to take things for granted, even if you once didn't have them; it's much easier if you had them all along.