Do you ride camels to school?

I’m an Arab woman, and I’d just like to share some of the things I’ve heard from other students at McGill that made me feel angry or uncomfortable. You’d think that going to the best school in the country would mean people you talk to are a little more educated about other cultures. 

-  Oh, so you’re Arab? Do you ride camels to school? It must be really hot there. (my country doesn’t have a desert….or camels…)

- Oh you’re Arab. Is your dad one of those rich people who sells oil?

- How is it like going to school in your country? are women really oppressed there? Do you have to wear a burqa?

- Why are Muslims always so angry all the time, I don’t understand why they just had to protest and start killing people because someone in the US threatened to burn a Qoran (FYI, I’m not even a Muslim, the person assumed I was after I said my nationality)

- Arabic is such an ugly language, it sounds like you’re yelling all the time.

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