Arab/Muslim Vignette #2


Two white women, Valerie and Diane, are sitting together on a subway.  A woman wearing a scarf on her head has just exited the subway car with two small children. Valerie says, “I guess Moslem women are forced to wear those scarves on their heads even when they’re in this country.  God, I wouldn’t last with an Arab guy for two minutes.”

Question for the reader: Valerie is making at least
two assumptions. What are they?

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