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fandomsecrets2013-04-04 06:34 pm
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⌈ Secret Post #2284 ⌋
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Re: Scariest thing that you've done
I kind of... wonder... how the locals treated you when you were in Baghdad. As a Malay and a person who has visited the Middle East only twice in his life (Egypt and Syria, the latter just a few weeks before the Arab Spring), I'm a bit curious as to how different we were treated by the locals as to others. I've always had a hunch that if I were Caucasian, a lot of people would treat me and my family differently, so I always wondered as to how other people are treated in a country far from home.
Re: Scariest thing that you've done
(Anonymous) 2013-04-05 04:29 am (UTC)(link)It's really hard to compare your visits to the Middle East against my deployments because the natures of the visits are so radically different. In Iraq, people either loved or hated us because we were the US Army. If the responded differently to us as individuals, it seemed to be based more on gender than race. My unit was based in Mosul that deployment, which was the most diverse city in Iraq at the time; it was a mix of Muslims, Kurds, and Christians. But I was in Baghdad for later deployments and the locals there had the same attitudes towards us. There were less people that US soldiers than when I'd been in Mosul, but we'd also been occupying their country for years at that point and daily life for citizens was generally worse than when Saddam was in power.
I did witness one racist incident out of my three deployments; a local in Mosul hired by the US Army for construction work refused to work when an African American soldier was assigned as their supervisor. He said many racial slurs in both his native language (I cannot remember what it was) and English. Rather than moving him to another crew, the office in charge of local hires fired him. The worker wasn't originally from Mosul and he was Muslim, but I can't remember where he was originally from or what sect he belonged to. He was on the work crew for a few weeks and he got a long with some of the other workers, but most of them didn't like him. My lasting impression of him is that he had a bad attitude, was a trouble maker, and was not reflective of any larger group's usual behavior or sentiments. I could be wrong about that, but it's unlikely I'll ever know.
Re: Scariest thing that you've done
*There were less people that liked US soldiers than when I'd been in Mosul