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Originally Posted by jorgelito
There's a few things going on over there too I would imagine. Him "ignoring" you may be because 1.) you are a woman, and 2.) you don't look "Muslim" to him. Both are awful answers I know. This happens a lot. It's like when people ignore you because you don't fit their preconceived notion of the group. It's one of the pitfalls of diversity estrangement.
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Oh, I know--and those two things occurred to me almost immediately, as well (especially after traveling in Lebanon--though really, I've been mistaken for Lebanese now and then, just upon first glance).
I understand it from a cultural perspective, but from a personal one, I always find myself wanting to get right back in people's faces about it and show them what a mistake it was for them to make those kinds of assumptions about me. (Of course, that's usually just my gut reaction and I don't act on it.) I'm an assertive person, but I don't take well at all to aggressive people. Who does, really?