Social Experiment with Woman Wearing Abaya

Then, there is this video, veritably viral in its own right at nearly 6 million views and over 16,000 comments.

Discuss.

I have had the privilege and pleasure of traveling, living and working in the Middle East, and I can tell you that Arab women of different nationalities in this region garner certain respect and reverence.  People around leave them alone and avoid eye contact, and unless they're friends or colleagues they do not greet people and people do not greet others.  If this video is at all representative of how such women, or women who look Arab, are treated in the US, then that respect and reverence I have seen is evident elsewhere besides the Middle East.  But, to the point of this video, the clothing - called abaya - seems to matter a great deal. 

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Indeed the original 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman has spawned quite a slew of related videos, for example, as a man, as a homosexual, and as a Jew.

The Human Algorithm is unendingly fascinating!