international relation[ship]s – part deux

I have another issue to reflect. Again about relationships, again about those international ones.

Have you ever seen a movie “Not without my daughter”? It is as far as I know a real story of an American women who married a Muslim guy (Iranian) in the US. They lived a normal life in the States, had a cute daughter and all seemed to be going great. Everything was fine until they went to see his family in Tehran, Iran. Then he turned out to be a conservative Muslim and didn’t allow here to come back to the US. Her life changed into hell. She was stuck in a Muslim country and treated with no respect.

I don’t know whether this story really happened or not but for sure it’s not a fantasy and it’s possible to take place somewhere in the world. But I really wish someone could make a movie about a successful relationship between representatives of 2 different cultures (especially including Muslim person as the Muslim world is subject of so many unfair prejudices). Showing only the worst aspects doesn’t reflect the real image, divides the world into black and white, builds stupid stereotypes.

I come from a small community (a village of around 1,800 people) and there are at least two couples where the guy is Muslim and the woman is Polish – one of them is actually my dentist (a very good one indeed - comparably good with my Moroccan dentist in Rabat) :) As far as I know they are normal couples and no threatening stories are included. Life just goes on and cultural differences don’t seem to interfere.

Well, but maybe such stories are boring for movies and wouldn’t sell good…

I bet my blog doesn’t have such power of influence on people’s mind as a Hollywood movie but I hope that at least I will have small and of course positive impact on people’s prejudices and stereotypes about the country. As you probably know I live an amazing life in Morocco and the cultural differences or shocks don't deprive me of this fabulous experience me that much. And the relationships can work perfectly too! I know something about that ;) – link it with the previous post please :)