If I were a Muslim woman, I'd be too busy being absolutely beautiful to join this useless forum and answer your inane questions.
That's actually a pretty good answer. Although it also implies that you wouldn't wear one.
Excuse me!? *slap*
Arab and especially Persian women usually have beautiful hair though. Obscuring that with a hijab is pretty wrong and repressive. Not that most Arab and Persian-American women do of course.
I'm not fond of arguments that hijab is oppressive in general (although I also don't buy that it's intrinsically liberating; it strikes me as one of those things that is what you make of it), but at least such arguments tend to be more valid than 'if part of a woman is physically attractive, it's wrong and repressive to cover it'.
To answer your question, I honestly don't know--not because I'm not willing to engage the question or imagine how my basic personality might shake out in a different environment, because I very much am willing to do those things, but because I don't know how my reasons for my actual religious views and tastes would apply to that situation. As things actually stand, I rebelled against the spiritual-but-not-religious post-hippie MTD that I was raised with by becoming a small-o-orthodox Christian with very pompous and ceremonious aesthetic and liturgical preferences and a penchant for imitating what limited understanding I have of my ancestors (when I'm away at divinity school I keep a photo of my CCD teacher grandmother in my room when I'm studying). I don't know if I would rebel in an assimilated Muslim environment by rejecting the assimilation (and thus becoming a more conservative Muslim and probably more inclined to observe hijab) or by rejecting the Islam (and probably becoming some sort of Eastern Christian).
If anything that explanation; drive towards aestheticism, tradition, need to reclaim some familial identity that isn't necessarily your inheritance would probably motovate you to consider it. You might end up making the connection (that many women do not) that the hijab is a cultural dress; it's alien to a Pakistani or Bangladeshi heritage for example and that it's essentially Saudi cultural colonialisation. So reject it. And knowing you you'd over think it to get to that point
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