Originally Posted by
JohnTRourke
A young Arab boy asks his father,
“What is that weird hat you are wearing?”
The father said,
“It’s a ‘chechia’. In the desert it protects our heads from the sun.”
“And what is this type of clothing that you are wearing?”
asked the young man.
“It’s a ‘djbellah’ because in the desert it is very hot
and it protects the body.” said the father.
The son asked,
“And what about those ugly shoes on your feet?
His father replied, “These are ‘babouches”,
which keep us from burning our feet in the desert.”
“Tell me,” added the boy.
"Yes, my son?”
“Why are you living in Dearborn, Michigan
and still wearing all this shit?”
Terrible, but true. Growing up in Kalamazoo we had Western Michigan University and you could basically tell what year the female arab students were in based on their clothing at the start of the fall semester, even those raised in the east side of the state. In freshman year they had the full dress, head cover and face veil on. Sophomore year the head cover and veil were around but they would wear jeans and a conservative blouse. Junior year the blouse was swapped to a tshirt and the veil was gone but the head scarf was still around. Senior year it was shorts, tshirts and a WMU or a Tigers ball cap.
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