do traditional professional girls still exist?

[ShimmerV]

Re: do traditional professional girls still exist?

You kind of answered yourself, you had a different experience as you belonged to upper class therefore experienced a completely different lifestyle.

I particularly mentioned an average middle class and schools like EMS because the girls belonged to a family who would barely give them 50dhs per month as pocket money which BTW included canteen money. No one had cigrattes in mind, at best you would want to buy a T-shirt from a store that too on sale. When university hit you were meant to keep up your GPA at least 3.7 to keep ur scholarship otherwise no way in hell can you afford AUS. When kids turned 18 not all parents could immediately afford to pay for their driver license cuz it costed about 5000 dirham’s. That’s a typical middle class upbringing of an average girl of the 90s in Dubai.

I was one of them, changed 2 schools and my experience was as I described.

@AnnaKarenina

I have a very different experience of the Middle East, having lived there in my early childhood in the 90s. I went to an elite American school, where nothing was strict – no uniform, co-ed gym and swimming, some kids even in the school dated openly/drank/smoked like they would in the US. All of my friends and I are pretty Westernized and “liberal” and I felt no difference between living there and in North America. No one was “rebellious” because our families are pretty modern too. Now that we’ve all grown up, all of my friends and I have turned out very successful in terms of careers and the ones that are married, are great wives. I wouldn’t classify them as “firangis”, it’s just a different type of society you’re raised in.