I’m an Arab-American so forgive me if I’m just out of the loop when it comes to fashion trends in the homeland, but I feel like I’ve been seeing so many Iraqis wearing cowboy hats these past few years and it’s really shocking to me. Now don’t get me wrong, as a Texan I absolutely love it. But I’m just wondering is this a recent thing or does it have historical roots?
Lately, I’ve been going down a rabbit hole about places like Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam, and how they’ve been struggling with men flooding into their countries for sex tourism. I feel bad for the locals, both the men and the women. But in this all, I’ve learned to have a greater appreciation for our culture and our society.
You can say what you want about the conservative culture of Arab society, I don’t mind that at all as everyone is free to their own opinions. But surely the one benefit to it is the fact that our culture basically repels away passport-bros who are looking for sex tourism. Some Arab and Muslim countries are poor, and the women of our countries are apparently seen as exotic. That would typically be the perfect environment for passport bros to flood into, similar to places like the Philippines, Thailand, or Vietnam. But the conservativeness of our culture, and religion being very important in our society, is what repels them from coming to us and exploiting the women of our countries. I’ve been snooping around a couple of those passport bro subreddits. Apparently, Muslim majority countries are always a no-go for them because we stick to marrying within our own cultures and religions. It’s too hard for them to do to us what they do in the other countries that they frequent.
Are we perfect? No. But Honestly, thank God that we are this way, and thank God it repels such behavior from coming to us. I am much more grateful now.
I swear I can’t even express with words how happy I am right now. Congratulations to our brothers of Iraq, Saudi, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Qatar, and Jordan ❤️
For our brothers in Jordan, this is their first appearance in the World Cup. For our brothers in Iraq, this is their return to the tournament after 40 years.
FIFA’s increase to 48 teams definitely helped us out a lot, bringing more representation to African and Asian teams. Very grateful for that. Now I need to find space in my closet for eight new football kits. Atta boys, let’s go 👏👏 Hopefully one of us makes it far in this tournament.