One of the many things a foreigner (a white foreigner especially) must get accustomed to living in Egypt (aside from the traffic, pollution, lack of sanitary establishments, linguistic differences, and the constant reminders of globalization) are the different attitudes towards your presence. Simple traveler generalizations, such as "everyone is so nice there" and "they all hate us", cannot be applied to Cairo, or really to any experience in a foreign country. Here are just a few of the experiences I've had in the last few weeks: While trying to hail a cab near the dorm, a cab drove by and, without even slowing down, yelled out of the window "no foreigners" and kept driving. He must have strong feelings about us foreigners, considering the general poverty of most cab drivers and the prevailing stereotype that white
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