My Brother and my younger sister are very fond of horseback riding. We were all exposed to professional riders on T.V. and during the Olympics. When we’d see the horses all prancing in their braided mains and tails, we’d think what twits to humiliate the horses like that. My brother assured me that the horses like to show off and they imagine themselves as something special. For the longest time I believed him, but I was a young child. I now know that my first impression was right, what twits.
Sometimes, being here in Dubai and being a foreign student, I feel that way about a few of my fellow peers. Some of them, only a few, spend a lot of time trying to imitate bad American fashions, meaning they tend to overdo it. It’s so goofy, really. There are women who will teases their hair way up high, and then put on gobs of makeup. They almost can be a perfect imitation of Tammy Fay Baker, Really! But with dark skin tones. The men slick there hair back to imitate the Greasers from the John Travolta movie. Then there are the guys in long robes, traditional Arab clothing, they look graceful and elegant, but then the illusion is destroyed buy the baseball cap and iPods. Twits. I find myself hanging around a 5 star Dubai hotel, just to get glimpse’s of Arab travellers wearing traditional garb, but even then it’s a crap shoot.
I hope no one thinks I had a bad attitude or offensive, it’s that I’m kind of sad that the worst of American cultures is being imitated. But, for now, I keep reminding myself about the advise my brother gave me about the horses. These people imagine themselves as something special and like to show off.
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