Inside The Tribe Analysis

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Inside the Tribe
Can an “outsider” make an assumption on a place and claim that that place needs help? Someone on the outside looking tends to believe that group is in need of their help. However, doing stuff that way would seem to be bit baise and for one to really know what's going in a particular area they might to take a trip there to get a first hand experience. In the book Among Muslims, author Kathleen Jamie takes a trip to Pakistan. She takes this trip so that she can understand the Islamic culture which she would then form her opinions into her ethnography. Jamie finds out more about their cultures way of living pertaining to dominant discourse. She learns that there is a big dispute becomes between the male and female especially in the Pakistani culture.
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In one incident inparticular, she was targeted by men because of the way she was dressed showing too much skin. Due to their religion, the Pakistani women are covered from head to toe showing very little skin. Those who aren’t dressed as if gives off the impression to men that they “easy” or unholy. This is important because this is a common judgement the men make about their own women. Jamie found out that the Pakistani men even judged their own women. A Pakistani women is denied entrance to board a bus because the driver didn't believe she was a Pakistani. Of course the women was upset, she was denied access because she wasn’t as par the totally over looked her actual ethnicity. She is indeed a Pakistani but she didn't have on the “traditional” clothing which was because she was coming from a different country. These are only a couple examples that show how often these women are judged by their own