I find the best way to handle it is to give a polite and friendly smile, and then the person who is usually staring usually ends up giving me a smile back or looks away in embarrassment... Of course, I myself have to be in a good mood first to have the patience to be so polite :D . saida 14-Nov-2006, 06:30 PM BTW, those brothers and sisters who are told to "go back where you come from", I think the best response you could give is to politely remind the person who said it that this country originally belonged to the aborigines, and anyone who is non aboriginal has come from overseas, wherther it was 200 years ago or 2 days ago. Every Australian knows there background (I'm English and Scottish descent) so why do they have more right to be here than anyone else???? That should shut the hypocrites up..... Quraish 15-Nov-2006, 02:02 PM Assalamalaikum to u all. A group of guys driving past my street yelled out "arab" to me last eid. I'm not arab so dont know if i should even consider it a verbal attack. Besides that I get the occasional stares. I used to wear niqab and now I wear hijab. I found it extremely difficult with the niqab. Once a little kid got scared of me as I walked into a grocery store. I got called ninja a lot back then too and heavily starred at. I didn't stop wearing it cos of