Moroccan women: The typical images on Moroccan women.

              Psychology has proved that all its branches agreed upon the fact that environment affects on the upbringing and personality of people. The environment moulds and shapes one’s personality. A person is affected by his parents doctrines, bias, stereotypes held toward different things and people. The same thing is proved to be true by the theory of Mustapha Hijazi.

            The theory is called “The psychology of depressed people”. It states that a depressed person yields to the things ascribed to him. If the person, for examples, is labeled stupid and less successful by his family, with time he will take it for guaranteed and assume that the claim is true. The fact is true with Moroccan women. They are regarded as inferior; henceforth they surrender and made themselves weak and margin. Accordingly, the environment affects much on a person’s personality than the biological and inherited features.

             Women in some Moroccan areas are much marginalized. Men use some degrading slogans and words while speaking about or addressing women. To mention but only a few,” the saying which is deeply disgracing and degrading women: “Lamra hashak “. This phrase is used in the south east of Morocco. However, it is about to distinct nowadays thanks to many factors.

             Moroccan women are known by many characteristics that make them so special. One of these typical images on Women in general and on the Moroccan in particular is Satanism. Demonism, foxiness and lack of faith are the ascribed characteristics to women since ancient times. The most known religions admit that woman is the origin of the sin. They are the cause for Man to be dispelled from God’s mercy. Christians believe that the French word” femme” from the Latin language refers to “Fe Minus”. The word means “carence de foi”; a French phrase that means lack of faith. Accordingly, Jews claim the same thing as Christians. So does pious Islamists who assume that men outweigh women in terms of hygiene, and mental and corporal ability. They base their judgments on menstruation and some preachers’ sayings. Furthermore, the recipes used by women to beautify themselves or to heal casual sicknesses are not wanted by men. They send out a stink smells. But this does not mean that women have poor standards of a hygienist.

            The standing point of outside observers is completely different from the one of the target or observed people. To the people of Golf and some other countries, Moroccan women are prostitutes. The European and American people believe that Muslims are terrorists and their wives are fortune tellers and sorceresses. I should admit that there is prostitution and sorcery in Morocco and so is in all over the world. But the degree varies from one country to another. The outsiders tend to over generalize to the extent that quick judgments on women on the street overflow. Because of this overgeneralization girls in the street face sexual harassment from Moroccan and tourist who fail to distinguish between innocent and prostitutes.

              The first thing a visitor may notice on Moroccan women is art. They are rather than men artists in their society. The Arabic and especially the Amazigh women shape the Moroccan identity per se. They decorated their faces with tattoo dyed their hands and feet with henna and painted their faces with saffron. They also embroider their clothes and scarves and head coverings brightly colored arabesque motifs. They sew their clothes by themselves. They are creative in essence that they find solutions to small troubles they encounter in life.

                 There are many characteristics but I will just these few ones. First, most of them are talkative especially when they met in ceremony where there are only females. Secondly, they are shy and easy-going. They tend to believe things at first time. Hence they spread rumors and new incidents. In addition, in everyday life, women use all the tricky means to get their needs. Sometimes they achieve their needs on the expense of means and values.

                A big discrepancy is clearly seen however in some stereotypes on Moroccan women. An example would be, if a woman is characterized by foxiness then she is cleaver. Her mental capabilities are great since she can deceive smart people. Another discrepancy is that women are deemed to be untidy and not clean. But, they pass all day long doing homework, cleaning, ironing, washing clothe and catering for their offsprings. Women are the driving force for a nation’s development. If a mother, sister, cousin and daughter are very weak in all domains no nation will develop because Women are half of the society.