Changing in Fashion Trend: Hijab in America
Pusan National University
Department of Global Studies
Yoo, Hyunji
Hijab represents not only
Muslim women, but also their society. People tend to think that Muslim women’s hijab
is still considered as a symbol of sexual discrimination and oppression. It
seems as though they are forced to wear traditional clothes. Of course, the
social system that prevents women from promoting their right to express
themselves is problematic in the perspective of the West. However,
interestingly, most Muslim women do not think that wearing hijabs is a way of
being discriminated. Rather, by wearing hijabs, they can express their identity
at the same time practicing their religion. Therefore, for Muslim women, hijab
is their daily-item. Most of all, these days, the recognition on hijab is
changing into positive among people in the United States.
As the world is
globalized, wearing hijabs is not limited only to Muslim countries, and the
population wearing hijabs in the U.S is increasing nowadays. There is
increasing number of immigrants from the Muslim countries and American women
are contributing to the positive recognition of hijabs. American non-Muslim
women wear hijab for its beautiful design to be distinguished, even though they
believe that Hijab reflects social discrimination. Furthermore, for the
feminists’ movements, wearing hijabs can be a symbol to protest toward their
unequal societies. Therefore, more and more Americans are having positive
thoughts on hijabs even though they are not Muslims.
However,
hijab is still a controversial topic since we cannot ignore the fact that hijabs
are considered as a tool to discriminate and oppress women. Even though we
cannot decide exactly whether hijabs are used as a discriminatory tool or as a
beauty and designing function, but at least, we should accept their uniqueness
and respect the cultural diversity.
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