Guest Post: The Result of a Sheltered Upringing
The following interesting guest post was written by Mouad alias Emomo.
Finally Mouad!! Something in English since your blog is French. The rest of us can understand because some of us (me) only know bonjour, madam and croissant!
He wrote:
“I am strange one…in their standard!
I wish to thank my host Mona to give me a tribune to speak. So, my first (& I hope not the last) contribution is something personal about me (Such kind of egoism 
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Question: what’s the fact that someone is considered as strange? Maybe he’s very brilliant for his ideas or a nutty guy. It depends on space & time and there’re a lot of people who were considered as crazy or avant-garde for their conterperaries & others whose madness made such a kind of mess. So, what’s my place in this topic?
Since my childhood, I had to face comments from people inside or outside family because of opinions, behavours or way of thinking. Positive opinions? I’m very smart, intelligent & naive. Negative ones? Crazy & too much cherished. Let’s be frank: I am the elder of my 2 brothers & my sister. So, in positive or negative, I’m the scout or laboratory white mouse, at least what I think.
While neighours’ kids were playing football or fireworks, I hardly went outside alone. My family thought it was a good method as it won’t influence badly on my behavour and my education. Result: even though I was good in scolarity, my social smartness wasn’t enough developed. Result: After passing from elementary studies in a private school to a public junior high school known in French “Collège” (Moroccan educational system is copied from French one), I had a real cultural shock with brutal students & slang, especially related to sex. So, during junior high school & later in high school where our class was boys only, I had to resist to moral & physical bullying while managing in my studies. Since then, I discovered that I’m living in such a dangerous social jungle :s Even now, my brothers & my sister are mocking of me due to my social lacking. Maybe that explain why I have no fiancée yet while colleagues of my business school or others already became parents.
Ok, I bet you’re saying:”So, what are things which make you different in a way you look like an alien from Europe or planet Krypton?” Well, here are some examples:
* Since I live alone in Agadir, I decided to begin a primary separation of garbage. It’s not easy especially with printer cartridges which many people throw it with domestic garbage or outside. Few people encouraged me in this initiative. “Hey, you’re in Morocco, not in Sweden!”.
* Many people think that money resolve anything, especially bribing. I remember one day I disliked the way a member of my family had done with a nurse to take care of my lost granmother when she was in a clinic & gave him some money as a way to take care of her. A young boy from maternal branch told me: “This is how people deal”. So you can say to hell transparency & civism.
* About religion: People, by the power satellite dishes & Internet, became experts of Islam. Practicing religion or not is a personal matter from my opinion. But sometimes some of them are exaggerating in some aspects: putting religious stickers in their car’s back glasses or switching to putting on channels broadcasting only koran (Now most TV stations became TV servers as we see just non-live programs!) or even wearing the…I won’t say Islamic wear!…It’s a mixture of Afghan wear with sneakers & long socks (!) I won’t say about some women wearing niqab hiding their face or not (Moroccans call them “Ninja” & me “Belphegor”). The funniest thing is that you can see a young couple walking together with these stuffs. Sometimes I ask myself whther they use it as disguise or really married. Although people show themselves religious, but some of them don’t some ethical aspects related to Islam as saying truth or avoiding gossips & hypocrisy. Not surprised if the problem is not religion but people. Thank you wahabbism & petrodollars!
And there many, many, many stuffs that make me very angry to despair!! Waiting for the day people will revise themselves & stop making silliness. Maybe they’ll do it one day: tomorrow or in 200 years”
Mona’s commentary to Mouad’s post:
1. I learned about sex in science class in middle school.
2. I lived a sheltered life as well, but I broke out of it when I realized that I am stubborn as a goat and not normal.
3. I don’t watch TV much. It’s all a bunch of crap censored or extremely exaggerated by the station’s owner.
4. I still watch cartoons because adults suck!
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Um, Cool. Well at the end of the day be the person you want to remember
but you should have ellaborated on the garbage system, that was kind of interesting, what exactly happens? Yeah my dad calls Niqabi’s ninja’s. Ofcourse Islam isn’t the problem Islam is a perfect religion, Human’s are imperfect therefore you must always differentiate the act of a muslim from Islam.
Although I do not think this world will be around in 200 years.
Mouad, thanks for sharing your story. For me it was interesting to hear, both in the way you grew up and in how you differed from others in Morocco.
Mona,
2. I lived a sheltered life as well, but I broke out of it when I realized that I am stubborn as a goat and not normal.
I would not have guessed that about you! (I don’t mean the “stubborn” part: that’s obvious :p )
3. I don’t watch TV much…
I would not have guessed that either! Is it just news you don’t watch, or TV in general?
4. I still watch cartoons because adults suck!
Ah, so you do love the rugrats despite your protestations to the contrary
@Jasmine
Although I do not think this world will be around in 200 years.
I’m certain the world will be here. How many humans are still around at the time, I wouldn’t want to guess!
@Craig
2. yaah.. my parents are a bit Arab! But somewhat liberal in some things, but strict regarding other.
3. I don’t watch TV much. I watch movies a lot. TV I turn it on if I don’t want to sit on the computer! lol
4. Rugrats was fun to watch! I watch a lot of Anime movies though. Especially from Studio Ghibli.
Mouad, you sound like a very sane person in somewhat insance circumstances. Don’t let anyone tell you the contrary!
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I know what you mean with garbage separation and “not being in Sweden”. Kudos for you for striving to make a contribution to save our planet! I will start being better with separating garbage again immediately (I am better sometimes, and discouraged other times – the place to put plastic bottles is 10 min by foot away.. very discouraging if you drink LOTS of water like I do
Fabolous food for thoughts, Mona and Mouad. Thank you.
“insane” I mean not “insance”
Mona, I think you two would make a perfect match lol…(foola wet2asamet nossain) as they say
@Ghazi
I don’t think so.
@ all commenters: Thank you a lot!
I feel i didn’t extended yet in develpoment of topics, so feel free to express.
@mona
Unluckily, cine teathers don’t show anime or very rarely. You have pirated DVD or French cultural center as choices. 
Oh rugrats (in french, les rase-moquettes. ask quebec neighbours with their strange french for francophones 
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I didn’t know that you love watching Studio Ghibli’s anime. I’m fan too! Mononoke, Laputa, My neigbours Yamada, Totoro… Just waiting the chance to see Ponyo!
@dina & jasmin
anyway, i do my best. so wish me good luck. oh yeah! recycling is very lucrative but it’s not organized. here’s the question.
the problem is not separating garbages but throwing it. i feel ashamed if i say garbage can thrown weekly or more, not saying about my rented appart. such a mess!!
@ghazi
maybe fat or with a different way of thinking to them. i don’t know. i’m very gauche in dating & i’m afraid that i’ll be taxed as someone harasses a girl on the ground of flirting.
oh, really? i feel that because of something in me, girls escape from me as if they saw a kryptonian
@Craig
Sorry Craig, I was just looking at the Islamic aspect of the world not being here in the next 200 years, idk if your Muslim or not, but i’ll explain. In Islam we have these signs showing us when the world is going to end every sign that passes we are steps closer to the world ending. Oh and these signs are like things going on in the world, haha one of them being earthquakes becomming more frequent… but yeah check it out of you want to.
http://www.forumpakistan.com/50-signs-of-qiyamat-t7748.html
Jasmine, if one of the signs of the day of judgement is that wealth will increase so much in the world it will be hard to find a poor person…its going to be a long time till that happens. There is so much inequality and pain in the world, lets try to heal the wounds first =)
http://www.wider.unu.edu/events/past-events/2006-events/en_GB/05-12-2006/
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mona can you delete my second comment, cause i thought the first one didn’t post thankyou
oh and maisy, if im 100 % correct after the sign of the imam mahdi, the distance between each sign becomes 7 years.
Ive just read up on all of it, and it says that there will first be 12 false prophets, and so far we’ve had 7 false mehdi’s, so thats another 5 to go! blimey! x
haha don’t you mean 30? All of that passed a LONG time ago. Shit but I just cannot find the actual proof at this moment. But bare with me this will have to do.
Among the signs of the Last Hour is the appearance of approximately 30 false claimants of Prophethood known as Dajjals.
Narrated Abu Hurayrah: Allah’s Apostle said:
“The Hour will not be established until two big groups fight each other whereupon there will be a great number of casualties on both sides and they will be following one and the same religious doctrine, until about 30 dajjals appear, and each of them will claim that he is Allah’s Apostle…”
great post as usual!