 Assalamu alaikum! Hello! Hello guys, I'm Jay Kim and here is... Eddy So, she is Tunisian and I invited first Arab friend The reason that I invited her is I wanted to ask some questions to Arab people Ask me whatever you want Okay, I will ask her whatever I want Okay, here we go Go! So, can you introduce yourself? My name is Eddy I'm from Tunisia and currently I'm studying in Germany Medical Engineering student And now I'm an exchange student here in Hanyang University So, you can speak German, French, Arabic, Korean, English, not Korean? Not yet Okay, four four languages I'm learning Korean though So, it will be five languages Yeah, hopefully Genius So, why did you come to Korea? I honestly was like everyone else interested in K-pop, Korean, German, I was a teenager And then that interest grew into like a cultural interest And an interest in the language itself And that's why when I got the opportunity to go abroad and go to Korea, I said, why not? Oh, that's cool Good answer So, which group did you like? BTS, as you can see I'm more into Korean indie music, Korean hip-hop Oh, you like hip-hop? Yeah, underground music Like, you know, soundcloud artists like from now Now it's not soundcloud music Really? Really? Yeah, my favorite Really? Oh, we have the same music taste I'm really old fan Really? Yeah So, you are Tunisian and you have lived in Tunisia So, can you introduce about Tunisia? Oh, well, it's just a small country, I guess, in North Africa It's a beautiful country Yeah, right I love Tunisia Not promoting my own country It's really beautiful So, side to side Yeah, like we have sea, desert, mountains, a lot of variety And food, couscous, you know? Yeah, it's so delicious Everything in Tunisia tastes good Yeah, right Beautiful people So, what language do they use? We use, like, a kind of dialect So, it's like a Tunisian Arabic And it's like a mixture of Arabic, French Oh, yeah So, like, Saturi? Ah, more complicated than that Okay Yeah I mean, but we learn, like, classical Arabic at school So, we can speak Arabic as well But it sounds weird if you speak classical Arabic in real life But you study French in school Yeah All our subjects are in French Oh So, it's like math, science, everything is actually in French at school Oh, that's really interesting That's hard It sounds hard Yeah Do you think K-pop or K-drama is famous in Tunisia? I mean, when I was a teenager, naturally Everything will think I'm weird because I listen to those Korean guys But nowadays, it's getting more popular, yeah Even Korean dramas are on TV nowadays, so What is the difference between Tunisia and Korea? What do you think? The difference is Good way or bad? There are a lot of differences But because I live as a college student in Germany I tend to compare Korea with Germany more Yeah, sure But if I say Tunisia It's easier to say the similar things Narrow streets, small neighborhoods, convenience stores everywhere Like, the people will always, like, try to smile at your face And help you as much as they can And eating together culture Ah, yeah, right Yeah, it's, like, similar to Tunisia as well But it's totally different from Germany I think life here is a bit easier than in Germany So the next question is Many people told me Tunisia is a very open-minded country Culturally and religiously So how do you think about that? I mean, it depends how you define open-minded Because being religious doesn't mean that you're closed-minded Like, women emancipation or, like, for example Oppression does not belong to religion Socially set norms that the society set for themselves And not because of their religion But I guess, like, in Tunisia Women has done a lot along the history So now, like, they say women in Tunisia are more, like, free than in other Arab countries And they get to do whatever they want And to get, like, to the highest positions and everything But I don't think that actually has to do with their religion My family is pretty religious And if, like, being religious was equal to being closed-minded I wouldn't be here So you think open-minded culture is not dependent on the religion The religion tells you to do whatever you want And let people do whatever they want So I've been to Tunisia And I saw many people who don't wear hijab So I'm curious that, do you think hijab is mandatory? I think everyone has the right to do and wear whatever they want Like, it doesn't matter I think the wrong thing is to force people to wear it The religion tells you to, like, dress modestly Not lie, pray, fast Religion is a journey And everyone does whatever they can do to get closer to God If someone, like, feels like if they wear it They're getting closer to God Like they're doing well on their religion Then it doesn't mean that everyone else has to wear it Like, for example, if I see someone wearing hijab I can't tell if they're a bad or a good person That has nothing to do with each other Okay, then, why do you wear hijab? For me, hijab is more like a part of my identity I mean, I'm Muslim, I'm religious, I pray, I fast I try to be nice And I wear hijab and I want to dress modestly And I try to do better on my religion If you like pink, you'll wear pink every day It's not that complicated If you want to do something, if that thing represents you Then just do it I feel that's a reminder for me every day who I am Look at myself in the mirror If I get up in the morning and put on my hijab I remember, yeah, that I'm Muslim And I have to behave like a Muslim So you do it because you want Of course, yeah You represent your identity and yourself It's good And many, my subscriber asked me that If you wear hijab in Korea Aren't there any discrimination or bad things to you? I haven't experienced any To be honest, to be honest I mean, like people always tell me Oh, it's pretty When I go to a convenience store, like to a fashion store And they tell me, it's pretty Like you wear it nicely And like, they always like Once I went like shopping And I wanted to buy a scarf And like the lady working at the store told me Please show me how you do your scarf And like she brought me a mirror And she said, please do it again in front of me So that I can learn That's kind Did you do it? Yeah Everything was in Korean But yeah, I tried to explain But like, of course I got a lot of those Like mainstream questions Do you sleep with it? How can you swim with it? How can you sleep? Yeah, I mean I got many strange questions But I don't mind I was like, give an answer if I can answer But weirdest question I ever got was Where do you buy your scarf? Now it's just a normal scarf You get it everywhere The guy was like, oh, it's a normal scarf? I thought it's just like that And you wear it like that It's not, there's not hijab scarf You can use just a scarf? Yeah How like the way I want And he thought it's just this way And I put it on this way I was like, I didn't spend 10 minutes Wearing my hijab this way For you to assume it's just like that I thought there is like hijab scarf Oh, really? In the shop, yeah Oh, no So at E-Mart I can also get scarves And like wear them as hijab I wanna ask that Do you think hijab can be a fashion? It's just a clothing for some And for some it means their identity Their religion Yeah, right, right It's not just clothes Yeah But you can be a fashion too Yeah Wearing hijab doesn't like mean You can't look pretty Or you can't wear the things Or the colors you want to wear You can just like style the way you want And still dress modestly That's cool But it's stylish like that I saw your other pictures in Instagram and Yeah, I always want to change Because like it gets worn If I wear the same style every day So I always like Want to change According to the season And the weather Trending colors Yeah Yeah, that's interesting And so hijab Is your identity? It can be a method that you represent yourself It's press yourself, right? It is People wear different styles And that's also like part of their identity They say I wear like hippie style That's me, that's who I am Like I wear hijab on Muslim That's me, that's who I am Oh What is today's style? Today's concept is Support and video as comeback Oh Bora Yeah Bora, hey Hey So Can you tell anything to Are our friends who want to come to Korea? Just do it If you want to go anywhere Do not worry about those cultural differences If you go somewhere else You're going to learn And you're going to get used to it eventually So just do it And you are who you are And don't let anyone make you feel that You're not worth it Or that you're less than what you believe I mean Just be self-conscious enough To like be yourself Wherever you are Thank you Thank you So today I met Eri Eri Eri Eri, okay Okay, so today I met Eri And talked about hijab and Muslim And Arab culture So it was good to meet you And thank you for Yeah, thank you for interview Thank you for inviting me to your channel Yeah, you're welcome So I'm going to tell you Tunisia is so beautiful And wonderful country So If you have opportunity You should go to Tunisia It's worth it Yeah, it's worth it I swear I'll come back with another content So Be careful And take care Be safe So Bye bye Islamah