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Thread #88117   Message #1650351
Posted By: LilyFestre
17-Jan-06 - 02:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: My Prejudices
Subject: RE: BS: My Prejudices
I'd like to think I'm a big enough person and make choices based on individual people and not group folks together as a whole. I will say that I think the closest thing to being prejudiced I have is a distrust of Arab men, it has nothing to do with color and everything to do with their culture and treatment of women. I once dated a guy from Oman who bit a hole straight through my bottom lip and thought absolutely nothing about it. So, would all men from that area of the world treat the world accordingly? I don't know as I don't get close enough to find out. I don't feel good about my reaction but it's an honest one. I don't think they are a lower class of folk or anything like that at all...I just have an issue with the culture clash of how women are treated. I know other women from the states who were involved with Arab men and have similar stories. Is it a prejudice? I don't know.

Michelle