(Theme1) Cultural reasons
Some Muslim women wear the burqa for cultural reasons out in public. It is a cultural tradition as well as a requirement for some Muslim women to wear a Burqa out in public. For a lot of Muslim women, their cultural identity is extremely important. Yet since September 11 as well as ongoing trouble in the Middle East, a lot of non-Muslims in our society are judged wrongly as well as being discriminated against any person who is Muslim, especially females who wear burqas.
However,
As an Arab woman raised in the West, I fully understand the importance of keeping to cultural traditions and religious beliefs, but I have also learned the importance of assimilation. It is understandable that immigrants seek to preserve the old, but they must also embrace the new. And if the
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