Hey my name is Salma Farouk, i am an Egyptian Muslim girl , I study at AUC. Being an Egyptian girl isn’t easy, you go through a lot of judgement because of our culture and ethics . When i used to live in Syria, everyone would be like ” oh you’re Egyptian , then say something.” “do you know any of the famous actors” “hows life in Egypt? do u ride camels?” .The basic questions that anyone living or travelling abroad receive, when they say that they’re Egyptian. If you are a Muslim girl in a foreign country , that isn’t Arab or a Muslim country , you’ll always get this judgmental look, and you’ll get more judged if you are veiled. One of the things I also face because I am an AUCian , is that obviously ” I am spoiled” and ” you don’t learn anything” and that everything comes to me in a gold plate.
According to Taiye Selasi in her ted talk , I found out is that there is a difference between citizenship and nationality. You don’t have to have the nationality of a country to be considered a citizen , you are considered a citizen by the memories you make in this place.
I took two IAT tests : the weight one and the Arab – Muslim one. I just did the weight IAT and this was my result “Your responses suggested a moderate automatic preference for Thin people over Fat people” . I don’t find this test very informative , they just ask me to choose what they already gave me, its more of a memory test than it is related to behavior. I also did the Arab-Muslim IAT and my result was “Your responses suggested a slight automatic preference for Arab Muslims over Other People” I think because this is what i choose , i personally don’t think that the website adds anything or like shows anything new about my personality or my behavior.
One of the biases I see in daily life is about the Muslim girls that aren’t veiled. Due to Egypt being a Muslim and Islamic country , one of the major things in Islam is that all women after hitting puberty should be veiled. They get judged from everyone , both ladies and men , I mean we because i am one of them. As much as I understand and know that we should be veiled , I also know its something between me and my god. No one should be involved , but of course this doesn’t happen in our country and everyone is judged.
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