The Multiple Worlds of Life via Halloween

I found an old Halloween picture, my brother & I are dressed as Sheikhs for Halloween.

It was an interesting reminder of how different the world we are born into is from the world we live in.

If I was a passerby, on Halloween 2011, of a young child in a Sheikh costume, I would likely assume his parents were Racist. My gut is telling me this is NOT an acceptable costume in post-911 America.

That said, my parents are very much NOT racist. In Mom's words:

I am not really sure why you wanted to be a sheik. Perhaps we just saw a disney movie that represented them? I do know that you liked to wear daddy's raybans and that might have had more to do with the costume than anything else. Not to mention we were poor and had to utilize what we had on hand, sunglasses and old curtains... The best part was the way you described yourself. "i'm the sheik of bellaweek" instead of the Sheik of Arabic...so cute.