[Amanda28739]

To Muslims: what was school like being Muslim in a school with children who were not like you?

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Name : Amanda28739, Gender : F, City : Brewerton, State : NY, Country : United States, 

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I’ve learned that growing up in the Bay Area where there is a lot of diversity, my situation may be different from others. However, to me it’s never been a big deal being Muslim when everyone else was not. I do not come from a fundamentalist Islamic family, I do not cover my hair or dress completely covered all of the time. Those aspects may have made me seem more like my classmates than different from them. But at the same time, I did not eat pork, drink alcohol, or celebrate Christmas religiously. Being Muslim provided my classmates a means to learn about my religion and provided me with a way to figure it out for myself as well. I never saw myself as incredibly different, I just figured we all lived life differently in the religious aspect, but that was only one of many aspects in li

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Name : MariamM, City : Bay Area, State : CA, Country : United States, 

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