‘The Girl in the Tangerine scarf’ by Mohja Kahf is about an immigrant Muslim girl living in the United States. The Shamy family often encounters non-muslims around them who are hostile to them and their beliefs. However the main problem is that the American culture clashes with Shamy’s way of life .The Shamy family has problems bridging the cultural differences between their nation of origin and their newly adopted country. They do not feel welcomed by many of the Americans around them. This is not simply due to the hatred that many Americans have towards them, but the reasons are more complicated. The Shamys feel alienated in the United states because of complex reasons ranging from hatred, from the Americans and their own underlying beliefs.
The Shamys feel unaccepted by the Americans due to their hostile behavior towards their family and other Muslims. At the beginning of the book after Khadra’s father, Ebtihaj, goes to the Lotts to get an apology for the Vaughn boy's actions, he is shocked when the Vaughn boy's father yells at him telling …show more content…
While reading ‘The Girl In the Tangerine Scarf’ there is no doubt that there is a fair amount of discrimination and injustice faced by the Muslims in the United States, but the Muslims are not just victims of outside sources. Once the surface is scratched the situation is much more complicated due to the cultural and religious difference between Muslims and Americans. However these differences are not so vast that they cannot be overcome. There is always a fear of the unknown, the Americans in this book do not want to invest their into understanding the beliefs and values of the Muslims and similarly the muslims are thrown into a place that is so alien to them that they might as well be on a different planet. They do not much of an attempt to understand their American
The Shamys feel unaccepted by the Americans due to their hostile behavior towards their family and other Muslims. At the beginning of the book after Khadra’s father, Ebtihaj, goes to the Lotts to get an apology for the Vaughn boy's actions, he is shocked when the Vaughn boy's father yells at him telling …show more content…
While reading ‘The Girl In the Tangerine Scarf’ there is no doubt that there is a fair amount of discrimination and injustice faced by the Muslims in the United States, but the Muslims are not just victims of outside sources. Once the surface is scratched the situation is much more complicated due to the cultural and religious difference between Muslims and Americans. However these differences are not so vast that they cannot be overcome. There is always a fear of the unknown, the Americans in this book do not want to invest their into understanding the beliefs and values of the Muslims and similarly the muslims are thrown into a place that is so alien to them that they might as well be on a different planet. They do not much of an attempt to understand their American