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My hope for this blog is not just to document my adventures as I prepare to retire from the College of DuPage but to offer you a chance to stay in touch. My children are long grown and on their own; my mother is doing quite well at the age of 90. I am looking for new moorings; a task which offers challenge and opportunity. There are comment features for you; and blogspot will alert me when someone posts a comment. I am still teaching Political Science at the College of DuPage for a couple more years. Please stay in touch!

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

OK! What about Women?

Some women do dress like this. However, they are a minority; and the material is colorful not black. You can see women wearing the traditional jellaba as well as modern, western clothing-mostly on the more casual side. And there are a lot of tourists; so at least in the large cities, Moroccans are accustomed to what Americans and Europeans wear. In the Berber villages of the mountains, a woman without a head scarf is the equivalent of going topless. It's also considered indecent for men to wear shorts. But with so much trekking and no part of Morocco really undiscovered by outsiders, mountain Berbers no doubt have at least seen such dress a time or two. The vast majority of tourists are French. Not too many Americans these days. They don't know what they're missing.

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