Today I learned that 80% of all women in Egypt wear the hijab (i.e. cover their hair with the Islamic head scarf). Seeing that Christians are 10% of the population, this means that 50% of all women without hijab are statistically Christian. I found that very interesting, because as a teenager all my Muslim friends used to tease me that I have 1 in 10 chance of the girl being Christian, now with the hijab factor in I have 1 in 2 chance!
I don't know why I'm blogging about this, it's not like I meet random girls all the time and I have a need to determine their religion! It's just something that I was teased so much about while growing up and I was happy to hear this statistic. Yes, teenage Fesh is still alive in me.
But in all fairness I think my calculation is biased, seeing that this number is over total population and my guess is that the hijab penetration is much higher with certain socio-economic classes and also in specific areas. So probably if you factor that in, probably folks I mingle with would be more at 50% hijab penetration, which means statistically I have a 1 in 5 chances.... ah crap .......back to square one :S
7 comments:
yeah it's rough. stats are against us.
"us"? There is no "us" we guys have the unfair advantage of hijab, what have you got?
*Fesh mocks Forsooth...
i have baldness and gold necklaces. and shortness. and residence in heliopolis.
ugh....on gold necklaces... that's the most disgusting. Very true... atleast the two other ones are not by choice :S
i hereby demand that the statistic of "10% christian in Egypt" be changed to the true number of 22%... how can you ever trust government statistics?
i hereby demand that the statistic of "10% christian in Egypt" be changed to the true number of 22%... how can you ever trust government statistics?
True man... everyone has an agenda.... except me.
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