i hate the whole process of it -
You have to dress according to what area in Amman - Jo you’re going to..Where you ‘MIGHT’ go to.. Where you will drive to get there..who you might encounter & of course if you’ll be walking or valet’ing it
As an Arab female getting dressed for work is a piece of cake, BUT the area my job is located at - forget about ittttt - anything that remotely shows skin ie; face, hands, feet will hollard at, stared at - مش لجمالي بس صار حق عام
and if u dare say something back - يا سلااااااااااام هات سكتّهم
if you’re goin out لازم to have the following:
1. A shawl or a jacket la2in u will be driving about till u get there & of course leaving back home at night..
2. A male friend to walk you to & from your car, especially at night.
3. A full tank of gas so you won’t stop for it
4. A full pack of cigarettes ‘just in case’ you don’t want to stop at a baqaleh!
5. Credit for your phone - see previous reason
6. A bullet proof car, u get hit/banshar/over-heat مافي داعي
I’m not saying i hate it or i hate this place (to all you people who live in your ALL-OK in Jo bubble)
I’m just saying i hate the hassle & sometimes dare i say it - i wish the whole GCC thing meant we MUST wear a 3abaya la2ino arya7 to be honest..sort of like a uniform -_- but even tho there still will be hollaring
i will document what happens today..bare in mind i’m neither flamboyant, nor shakra, nor taweeleh..i’m a normal looking girl..
let the experiment begin
(update - experiment failed since i couldn't be bothered..you can't teach people something they DON'T want to learn)
LOVE this post! Because it is just insensitive not to adapt to the culture, so you'd have to go through these points, I do exactly the same! You should see what it's like to look foreign (being half foreign), also going through all of what you mentioned, Arab speaker, but people around you have noooo clue that you understand what they are saying (Ya Habibi!) and not say anything back, because like you said, if you do....!
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