Decolonizing Culture
In the article "Decolonizing Culture - Beyond Orientalist and Anti Orientalist Feminism's" by Nadine Naber she examined the stereotypes of what Arab women thought of American women. Nadine gave insight on her way of growing up in america within Muslim culture. She explained that although she lived in a small community of consisting of Muslims and Christians the feelings there were mutual. She wrote: "We seemed to share a tacit knowledge that al Amerikca was the trash culture, degenerate, morally bankrupt, and sexually depraved. In contrast, all Arab (Arabs) were morally respectable - we valued marriage, family, and close relationships."
Also in contrast of the reading "Reflections of a Genderqueer Palestinian American Lesbian Mother", Huda Jadallah touched upon life in a Muslim community as a lesbian mother with two young boys. In the first reading Nadine described in great detail about being raised with these specific morals whereas Huda described raising two young boys of her own in a American society. It was rather interesting that both readings also reflected the lives of LGBTQ people and what their lively hoods were looked at especially with kids. It's good to have to different view points of something.
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