Take another look

THANKS to the impressions of a few crew members working on a film shoot in Morocco [“Down, Dirty in Morocco,” Oct. 16] describing Moroccans as people who “don’t understand sarcasm,” “don’t think ahead” and “are mysteriously devoid of the impulse for self-improvement,” some Los Angeles Times readers’ view of Morocco and Moroccans can now be shaped to fit a largely simplistic and negative mold. This is insulting and objectionable to me and some 30 million other Moroccans.

Lost in translation to the crew members is Morocco’s burgeoning democracy, a free and independent press, progressive civil institutions, moderate Islam, a constitution that gives women equal rights, and cool and festive Casablanca and Marrakech night scenes.

RYAD AOUAD

Los Angeles