Blue Eyes and Blond Hair Only Allowed! [Archives:2001/10/Focus]

Crystals 
By: Mohamed Kadri 
I accustomed westerner pre-coming to Yemen, collecting books, references and other various written materials that furnish the readers with information about this country. Some of them go to listen to Yemeni music and dialects! 
Related to similar importance, almost all oil companies working in Yemen, prepare profiles for their international staff arriving here to join employment. What had arisen my attention, is the contents of some pages of such profiles, where staff are educated on our national daily behavior, what to do and what to avoid. However, most important to mention here, these profiles’ orientations towards Yemenis as member of an Islamic society. The companies doing so, are aiming at creation of good image of their business on one hand, and facilitating their ‘strangers’ at associate well in their new environment. 
And no doubt other non-Arabs missions in Yemen are doing the same. But, are these care to deliver an indirect, at least, advice to their citizens present here as wives married to Yemenis? Will such wives aware themselves of the fact that their husbands are being Muslims, Arabs and Orientals? Is it vague to some of them that their husbands are having national friends or may be advisors and employees, who, under any sort of circumstances ought to knock door, make telephone call to residents? Should I indicate how some of these international and westernized ladies look to be rude, rough and abnormal in responding to the husband’s friends associations? 
Nothing, I allow my self here, to attack marriage to non-Arab or Yemeni females. But I am entirely concerned to kindly request these wives to respect Yemenis, not to close doors and telephone speakers in their faces, while gates are opened for their nationalities and other non-Arabic speakers!
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