Suzanne Staples Different Is Just Different

Do you think people are being over judged? There was an interesting story on the news recently when Ahmed Mohamed built a clock for a science project and the science teacher took the wrong impression of it. The project resembled a bomb by all of the wires in a box, the teacher called the police. "I built a clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her,” Mohamed said sadly. The profiling of other nationalities has gotten to the extreme. Suzanne Staples, the author of “Different Is Just Different” A American woman writes about her observations about being different while traveling overseas. For example, Muslims getting looked at as terrorist, even a science project gets looked at as a bomb. People from other countries …show more content…
It’s not so different here.” (pg. 584). Everyone has the same values and poverty does not define the lives of poor people. “There is more to Islam than repression.”(pg. 584). There is also more to Islam than terrorism. Staples was known as a teacher that tried to bring the hopes and dreams back for the Pakistani woman. Staples believed it was possible for anyone to expand their knowledge. However, it is hard to teach when one is on an empty stomach. Many Pakistani’s were starving and didn’t have much to eat. Being sick also holds one back from learning, when Pakistani’s drink bad water, illness happens and spreads. Also, the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) didn’t have hope in the Pakistani women because it’s difficult to teach material and having to explain it for them to understand in their since of knowledge and understanding. Now, eight years later the literacy rate still stands at five percent in Pakistan. Consequently, the literacy center was shut down as well as roads and