Also how africa ... (yes the whole continent ) get portrayed as poor dusty and dirty..... and usa as the hero in all situations coming to save the day....
Vanetia Mentor Africa is probably the richest continent in natural resources. European countries still cause chaos there to take the gold, diamonds and oil. We are the suckers that fall for every b.s. told to us.
linus karlshammar not really. I lived in the US for years now and I can assure you that every single nationality can be here. So no it's not "too far from the rest of the world" because the world isn't that big. If so why other people are capable of coming here but Americans can't?
its mostly the one that cant aford to see the rest of the world and afford collge to learn other cultures the more privleged americans can afford to go to dubai and egypt and see the world and not just get their news from fox news
I agree. Also I don't think they knew the rest of the world is gonna see those movies. Or at least not the "Arab world " . It's like they are making them only for American people. Didn't expect them to be world wide seen .😂
We have had cities before their countries even came into being. Before any of the current surviving religions even existed. We are the cradle of civilization, that is something they will never take from us. The Mesopotamia region and Egypt at the very least.
Someone online legit thought I was in a desert living in a tent near the pyramids with only a camel for transportation and no technology available to me because I told them I'm Egyptian...
OK, Chew Her! Only people from East Asia are classed as (the) Asians, in America. Though East Asia is just one of the similar sized other arts of Asia - Middle East (West Asia), South Asia, South East Asia, Central Asia & North Asia (Siberia mainly). It breeds bad education among American children. They don't see a Middle Easterner (from Turkey, Iran, Jordan or Israel - yes, Israel is in Asia nor Europe) as Asian at all. They grow up (some have already grown up idiots) & argue on demographic-ethnic nuances in Asia to divide continents. It is exasperating. Why don't they teach Geography (what is being taught there - if at all - isn't Geography) in America?
To ask for a show to completely accurately portray a whole culture with all it's multifaceted parts is quite a big ask. But I feel that the discourse surrounding the west, about how it's a white supremacist patriarchy is kind of like the new Orientalism, but now just about the Occident. In this discourse the Occident is seen as a monolithic block of world devouring megalomaniacal toxic masculinity.
@@baamonster2 well if you're from Northwestern China, then you won't like how they portrayed the Huns lol. Mulan was also unpopular in China as it's humor and characters behavior and way of speaking was very Americanized. It would probably appeal to Chinese-Americans more than mainland China
I'm from a Moroccan background, but I was born in the US in 1992 and grew up in northern NJ. When I saw Aladdin as a kid, I didn't even register it as an Arab film. I thought it was more Indian-Hindu or something. I think that speaks to how mis-represented the Arab world was. At least now, Disney wouldn't be able to get away with a movie like that again.
There are themes from all the cultures you mentioned, in the film. The overwhelming misconception is that the setting is in the ME, when it indeed is in NW India.
I love the movie but I think Disney tried to create a token "brown" princess that would portray ALL of the middle east and south asia so they could kind of check those regions off their list. The movie is honestly a cultural mess!
thanks to this sort of media betrayal my siblings and I grew up “lightly” being called terrorists by other classmates, and I always felt like I had to be extra nice to people to compensate for the bad rep Arabs get in order to assert the “we’re not all inherently evil okay” Message
Same. It must be a lot harder for a female though. When it was said about me most of the time it was a joke thankfully. Must be harder to have dealt with it as a girl since people would most of the time say it in order to hurt your feelings. I'm sorry.
@@dodosback it was delivered in a comedic way most of the time, sometimes it was to provoke some sort of reaction but yeah people can be ignorant i guess, having said that the world is getting a little *too* PC in my opinion
I lived with Muslims when I was working in the UK. Two guys from Egypt they were super nice and even invited me for breakfast. I was 18 at the time and this was post 9/11 but I never had a deep seeded disdain towards Muslims anyway.
It's a disgrace to the supposedly best country on earth that in 2019, we still demonize and dehumanize ppl based on their ethnicity, but America's just another country and isn't as awesome or special as ppl make it out to be, so I shouldn't be shocked
I'm an Arab Christian and i feel like when people say Arabs they mean Muslim. And I agree when I watched aladdin growing up I saw it as this foreign land because it's so not the reality
muna boulos True! Not only that, when people say Muslim they always think of Arab, you can be Arab and not a Muslim, and you can be Muslim and not an Arab.
Its so annoying non Arabs always think that us Arabs balling and don't know what to do with our money. Sure a lot of Arabs live luxurious lifestyles but that doesn't mean you get to categorize us all like that.
its because of the wealth inequality my dude. rich russians/chinese get the same response. its not a blanket thing these people used tyranny and slavery to build their cities
@water tastes so good People does. Especially the idiot Western people. They think we are all living like the rich families in the Gulf states which don't even respresent the whole Arab world.
Stereotyping a whole country or a religious group based on an imagination . Which they portrait in movies , music only American can do that with their minimum knowledge about outer world and culture and assume something so easily.
@@kareemr3436 Let me tell you one thing only 2% of Pakistanis would be proper arab . Rest have much more a mixture of Indian,Afghan,Greek and a little Turkish DNA
I'm Italian, first in my family born in America(i also happen to be a Muslim revert). Our culture has this happened alot. As soon as someone finds out I'm italian, I hear something like "I love Olive Garden! Do you have family in the Mafia?". Its not as bad now, but when my family first came here, my mother wouldn't even let me speak Italian in public, because of how she had been treated.
Iman E oh I'm very proud of my culture, that is one thing we kept at home. American culture is so bland haha. Unfortunately I understand Italian, but can only speak a little.
shield&sword peace Ameen brother may Allah bless you too, but I'm a sister lol. Yeah, I think it's cause American culture and English language are more dominant. I live in Europe too and most foreigner I know do speak /understand ( or some of) their mother tongue (it depends). But we kind of lose it too :( . Germany is closer to Italy, maybe they visit more often and that way they can practice speaking more?
this doesn't only affect Muslims or arabs, this affects mena minorities aswell, like armenians, assyrians, persians, etc. this vid is great, thank you for talking abt this.
Come on, we have wild west and medieval fantasy too. I don't understand why some people are butthurt toward this. We all know it's just dramatization for the sake of entertainment.
We have literally been part of the middle east forever. Even if you consider the Caucasus separate from the middle east, an opinion I disagree with, but can respect) Armenians still have communities all over middle east. Armenian Americans also face anti-middle east discrimination. Like profiling at airports, and having to deal with trumps Muslim ban (even though trump said it won't affect Christians, parskehay and beirutsi Armenians were still deported for no reason). From my experience of living the US I've personally had to deal with discrimination for being armenian.
if that's how you feel nothing I say can change that, but I still disagree because the protagonist in all those wild west movies is white so that person being white has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Also having tech be placed in the wrong decade is different then blending all the cultures in half of asia together. Bu me saying this will ultimatly change nothing because what are the chances someone changes their opinions because of an argument in the youtube comments section
Note: Iranians aren't Arabs! They're Persians. Edit: "mostly Persians". Also Kurd, Lur, Balouchi, Azeri turks and Turkic people and also some Arab people in the south.
Jorhem 60 percent of iranian are persians and ethnic groups like lurs or kurds or ... in iran are close to persians. Name of iran in western languages and history is persia.
You need to do one on how Native Americans are portrayed as 19th-century people, and how many Native Americans have taken this on as their "identity," rather than the image of contemporary people who are still here.
Arab here, Arab there, Arab this, Arab that... one of the most misused terms in history, referring to a large number of populations in North Africa and the Middle East, with different ethnic origins, different histories, different ancestral languages (some of which still spoken today), different dialects, etc, as if they were the same people who somehow poured out of the desert of Arabia in the 7th century and drove everyone else into the sea. FACT: they didn't. Only the populations of the Arabian peninsula, Jordan, and possibly South Iraq and South Syria, are predominantly of Arab origin. Edward Said himself is descended from Phoenicians and Canaanites, not Arabs. A sad little lie that has been perpetuated by media. By the same logic, most of "Latin America" should be called "Spanish". A Brazilian should be called "Portuguese". A Quebecois or Senegalese should called "French". But instead we have terms like "Hispanic", "Lusophone", and "Francophone", to indicate that the link is linguistic and cultural, rather than ethnic or genetic. We should have a similar term "Arabophone" or "Arabaic" or such to indicate the same thing for many countries and populations in North Africa and the Middle East.
Theophagous An excellent comment ! Thank you so much for sharing. As a recent Egyptian immigrant to the US of Greco-Roman decent I was always in the minority that still knows that there is a difference between the near east (Mediterranean region ) vs the Middle East (the Arabian peninsula) in terms of history, food, ethnicity, race, language, etc... I am not and have never been “Arab” or “middle Eastern” and it actually offended me in Egypt and still offends me now when Americans describe me as such, even if their intentions were otherwise. The history of the Mediterranean is great, ancient, and glorious! The actual cradle of human civilization! The Middle East has its own history with its own moments of glory as well. However, the people and identity are NOT the same. Once again, thank you.
The most frustrating thing is how the Arabized people of North Africa and the Near East would fight you tooth and nail, when you point out that they are genetically non-Arabs, as proven by numerous scientific studies.
Theophagous I'm North African, I don't for sure know if I'm 100% Arabic, but I might not be. Since my great grandfather spoke Italian only, and my great grandmother was of Amazigh descent. But since we have been Arabized, I'd just go with it. I usually refer myself as North African or Mediterranean, but sometimes Arabian.
I'm Iranian and I'm studying fashion, I wanna show the culture in my brand and I'm not exoticizing it to offend other middle easterns. So I apparently I can't do it anymore?
@@disco_depression as a arab i love and respect turks and persians🤩😀😀😀 Live the ottoman caliphat We are brothers in faith and religions I love turkish drama I know some turks words : evet(yes) Yok(no)coke gusel and seniseviyurum( i love you )
@@mariorizkallah5383 Still, it is the land of Phoenicia, and it is our heritage, and we should cherish it. Everybody is a mix these days. DNA has nothing to do with the fact that still, Lebanon is is the land of Phoenicia.
I'm glad someone mentioned this topic. Whenever I make new online friends they be like "OMG but you don't look Arabian at all. You don't look like Jasmine from Aladdin and you don't act like an Arab" and I'm like how dumb can people get
Anton EightBall actually I had a lot tell me that and I also had others who asked if I looked like Cleopatra because I'm Egyptian. People think Arabs still wear that old Jasmine costume and Egypians are still Pharoahs and I'm not really THAT desperate to look for attention online :)
Anton EightBall Trust me almost everyone thinks that. They think Egyptians live in Pyramids and Arabs still live in tents and that we go to school by camels. They barely even know where Egypt is on the map. I'm not saying them asking if I look like Cleopatra is a bad thing, I'm just surprised at how uneducated people are
well i am French/Moroccan half Gibraltarian so european on the side of my mother and my father is european half north african, one year i went to visit the country of my paternal grandfather my friends came with me, one of them told me "but it's snowing here, there is the ocean and the sea, oh I did not know that 'There were cities,old historical cities, houses, cars, I thought that people move in camels and live in aunts I really thought that Morocco was sahara desert I never knew there were different landscapes and weather "" oo peoples do not look alike , they are not all Muslims but also Jewish besides they do not kill each other astonishing " during all the holidays I was entitled to this kind of comments...
@LV skinny most algerians don't know a word in Berber, there are berbers who speak their own language and the rest speak darija which is 70% Arabic and 30% foreign languages
@Zayd V you can't be more wrong..Lebanon is not jsut beyrout..and egypt is not what you see in their media and movies...north African mentality is still close to the French lifestyle even though they are Muslim..so yeah...
@Zayd V not offended here ..but it is funny to me to say that Egyptians are open minded ..when i visited with my sister...guys were hitting on her even when she was inside the taxi regardless that i was there...like they never seen a woman before .also even 12 years old girls wear hijab ..i was shocked..even though it was the capital..letalone other regions....maybe you meant these countries are more touristics..but nothing about the middle eastren mindset is open minded ...at least not more than the north african ones
I remember, one day, Homeland was on the television and I watched the whole episode and didn't realise that it was supposed to be my city until later mentioned. Point being, it is nothing how we are. It wasn't shot here, most of the actors were Arabs while Pakistanis are South Asians and it was nothing how my city is. It was shot in a deserted place while Ilsmabad is a forest city on the border of the Himalayas.
Hassaan Tauseef have u seen Avengers?? Wen natasha romanoff goes to find dr. Banner in Kolkata.. The city is shown with military tanks with terrorist with guns nd super poor nd diseased people... I live in kolkata.. They show a war torn city instead of a real kolkata..which is a peaceful metropolitan city... Nd they even put hindi dialogues.. People in kolkata speak Bengali.. Not hindi.. I hate it.
David Pusnik it's not pain.. It's disgust that how little importance the writers give to all this.. Just create a fake city.. Why give people wrong notions about real places..
we're not arabs but Amazigh, still we have some arab people between us People think we're the best arabs because our mentality is way better and open, and our islam is the best (not severe like in Saudi arabia), and that's how amazigh were since they came to earth more than 4000 years ago, ope and civilized
I am here because the title about Arabs. I actually never watched the whole video to be honest but not gonna say more things only I would like to say: I'm proud of being Arab and Muslim and peace to the world
I don't get it. I don't see what's wrong with camels and burkas. Orientalist paintings showed the diversity of the Arabs and the beauty of our culture?? WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE!??!
You know, none of this works if you grew up with a non-English version. The voices don't have the accent, the line I remember (was also changed but) was "If you steal they will pinch you in the arm, which hurts, but hey, it's nice here".
Shocked that they didn’t mention Lady Gaga’s song Aura (Burqa) (produced by ZEDD) which was meant to be the lead single of ARTPOP. It had lines such as “Do you wanna see me naked lover? do you wanna peak underneath the cover? Do you wanna see the girl who lives behind the curtain, behind the Burqa?” She pushes this outdated image of Muslims. And although she ‘claims’ to be pushing a powerful image of Muslim women, she sings verses which show her ignorance towards the Islamic faith. These outlandish images really do haunt us and make our society become labelled as barbaric fools who lust over females and use fear to maintain dominance. The Arab and Islamic world is so much more better than what they make it seem in terms of identity and culture.
The Islamic world is so much better? Really? Where it's punishable by death to by gay? Or an atheist? Or to draw the wrong Prophet? People have a barbaric perception of Islam because the scripture and practices are inherently barbaric. Exhibit a: Public beheadings Exhibit b: Being thrown from a sky scraper is another form of execution Exhibit c: theft is punishable by amputation Exhibit d: a woman's opinion is worth half that of a man in Islam Exhibit e: for a woman to report a rape under Sharia Law, they must have 4 male witnesses I could go through to Z ten times over but I'm sure you get the point.
Harmless House blame muslims not islam. I used to believe in the sharia law, but then i started disagreeing with certain things, then more things and more till i came to the conclusion that the whole sharia law is stupid. Then i started reading more into it and I decided i should apostatize islam and read more about religions and atheism. I'm still not completely muslim or completely atheist, but after reading some books everything is much much clearer to me and islam is indeed viewed wrongly not only by non muslims, but Arab religious muslims as well.
If you want to learn more about how all hadiths are fabricated and fake i found a RU-vid video that sums up everything. But idk if the subject doesn't really interests you (why would it even) then that's alright
j2 lover it doesn't really mean much to say the haddith is fabricated since all religious texts are undoubtedly fabrications. Speaking in metaphors (through Religion) has done unimaginable to the world and humanity. Logic and reason should be the universal religion.
Harmless House no I'm not saying that all religions aren't fabricated, I'm saying that if we're ever gonna judge islam, we should only judge the non fabricated (according to history and logic) part of it. U get me? Like just judge the actual (supposedly) word of god..
I travel a lot. A lot of places I’ve been have Arab and Muslim populations. I know it’s surprising because the West would stop making money if they portrayed people they’ve never seen as exotic but they’re just normal people who live different from us.
Ecxuse me if I'm wrong, but I think that most people are smart enough to understand that cartoons, pop culture, Hollywood movies etc. doesn't reflect the reality.
@@tobiastranetellefsen4203 A ton of those people do have access to information but still choose to stereotype regardless. At least from what I've seen.
@@mess9121 Many people find it fun to have stereotypes, even I must admit that it I like to have steryotypes. A good example of this is that I like to have stereotypes about people from Oslo wich is the capital in Norway because they tend to have sterotypes about us who lives outside the capital.
@@tobiastranetellefsen4203 Absolutely man. I agree that it can be fun and can even be used as humor. The example you stated is fine, I can see where this comes from. But when people start being ignorant and close minded while choosing to stereotype is where I have a problem.
This is what happens when one culture dominates the global media. Particularly the culture pushed by the most powerful empire of our times. And clearly, this issue affects many groups of people not just Arabs. Look at how Chinese or Indians have been portrayed throughout western media.
México is a desert, full of towns with decaying wooden building and bars, unpaved streets and plenty of steel brawls happening all over... ...oh American media... Aaand for some reason everything is reddish looking
I have actually read Orientalism and I still don’t get one thing: what makes you so special? Every culture exoticises, stereotypes and finds odd, strange or even scary OTHER cultures… seriously, in the Middle Ages people always thought monsters and strange people lived just beyond where they did. And yes: to the west, the East IS EXOTIC. It’s not pejorative: “exotic” literally just means foreign, from far away, and implicitly not well known or mysterious. There is nothing wrong with finding another culture mysterious. Wow. AJ, a company run in a dictatorship that literally does nothing but criticise and blame every culture but it’s own for every single problem. Amazing.
Where did he ever say that Muslims and Arabs are special? Does pointing out an issue suddendly imply that the victim is special? Does pointing out an issue imply that nobody else suffers the same? The fact that youre pointing out "well everybody does it, youre not special" just makes you look like your coping and trying to downplay the major bad effects that Muslims and Arabs suffered because of this. Whether or not it happens to others aswell doesnt make Orientalism less bad and dehumanising. Or would you tell the grieving family of a murder victim that they should stop crying because other people got murdered aswell?
@@eliotisconfusedaboutyourpa8105 You have missed the point entirely, congratulations, I wouldn't believe someone could do that accidentally, but you seem to. My point is not that Edward Saïd claimed Muslims / Arabs are 'special' when in fact they are not... My point was that this is a universal human behaviour. In fact it is an animal behaviour and very natural and normal. So Saïd contributes literally nothing in this book. It is so funny seeing you accuse me of 'coping' and then compare what I said to 'telling the grieving family of a murder victim to stop crying' lolllll Truly, a masterpiece in hypocrisy and stupidity. It is not equivalent to that in any serious way, obviously, but if I wanted to play your game and make a stupid analogy to victims, I would say it's more like telling a violent robber who has just been pickpocketed to stop crying, whining and lecturing everyone else on stealing.
You're simplifying what was talked about down to "exotic = bad" when that's not the case. There's no problem with taking an interest in other cultures, in fact most people would encourage it. The problem is misrepresenting those cultures. When you misrepresent a culture to a large audience, it sows prejudice in the minds of many people and that can have real-world consequences. Imagine if, say, people in China only saw media depicting Westerners as gluttonous, power-hungry, warmongers. The people who consume that media are/will become future leaders and those prejudices will influence their decision making. Would you be alright with over a billion people viewing you and your race as "less than human" simply because of how your race is represented in their media?
The worst example of Arab ethnicity erasure in the media/Hollywood was Naomi Scott (a white passing biracial Indian-white girl) was casted as Princess Jasmine. And that's not even mentioning the shit show that followed afterwards with Indians claiming that Princess Jasmine was an Indian character.
I liked this critical video and you mentioning Edward Said's work.But you were often saying "Arabs and Muslims" even though some examples shown were linked to the Indian subcontinent and Hindu traditions. This might be a bit picky of me but if you're talking about the exotic portrayal of "Arabs and Muslims" you should leave out these type of examples. Otherwise we could assume that you also are generalising.
Great topic. In my opinion , I do agree on that and I think this is happening on purpose. Its not only Americans but also other countries around the world. They fell for the stereotypes all though in every religion and culture there is pros and cons in it. Arabs and Muslims have great History but unfortunately this has been not highlighted especially in the west. Thus they are represented in a savage and pathetic way. On the other hand, I think Arabs and Muslims especially the ones who are born and raised in the west aren’t that proud to speak about their origins. And aren’t raised with love to their hometown and doesn’t know much about it. which is really sad and bothers me so much. Instead they are effected with false thoughts and behavior towards it. Based on personal experience. i have faced many arabs living in the west or westerners on FB , Twitter and instagram where when we have a debate they start accusing me on being oppressed by my cultural and that I am illiterate when our opinions disagree. Lol pathetic !
Farah AL You know you bring up a brilliant point, I had to go to japan for a year, as a year abroad at university and I will not lie, Japanese people think lowly of Muslim Brown folks, because they too consume American mass media, movies like American snipper which dehumanizes and shows the murder of innocent brown Muslims as heroic, and 'oh look at the traumatised 30 something white man :(((' , that movie was released in Japan, people went to watch it, and there isn't a lot of Muslims in Japan so the only exposure they have to, well Muslims, is this openly racist media that American pumps out. pretty toxic if you ask me
Farah AL this is why accurate representation and diverity should be celebrated, for example, Marvel have annocuned that they are thinking of producing a movie about Ms. Marvel, who is a Pakistani Muslim girl written by two muslim women, this narritive is going to show people that hey, brown muslim families pay their taxes and aren't as different as you are, which is the truth! just a normal family of 4
Farah AL Since so many people in the comments think Muslims are *inconvenient* let me tell you without Muslim scholars/philosophers/astronomers, European science wouldn't have prospered. Muslims aren't savages either, I think people forget that the 'understand, predict, test and find evidence' method in science was literally created by a Muslim, Iraqi, astronomer in the Islamic goden age of scinece, they made one of the very first telescopes and the telescopes that Gallelio looked through himself, created the concept of 0, allowing us to talk about 100's, 1000's millions, we are literally ordinary people who aspire the same things as anyone else, Read about Ibn al-Haytham, who pioneered the scientific method, he also spoke about gravity and forces that govern bodies 600 years before Newton was born, Read about Ibn Sina, and Ibn Khaldun - an Arab Muslim from Tunis who proposed the theory of evolution, in his own words before Darwin was even born. The 'Al' in Algebra, Alchemy, The Wright brothers used Abbas Ibn Firnas' writings, and findinds to build and desgin a plane!! go read about it. People forget how much the Qu'ran encourages and praises sciences and education aka "go all the way to china for an education" going from Arab to China was insane in the BC's and Qu'ran literally states "I've left evidence for people who want to find it" But no, we never see this in mass media
I am just glad that you made the distinction between being Arab and being of Islamic faith! I hate that people think it is the same thing like you can't find Arabs of different faiths throughout the Middle East and North Africa!
Thank you for talking about this topic this video has a great amount of information and vocabulary that will help me to be brave to participate in serious conversations in the future .✨
As a muslim i have no problem with alladdin Its a classic and actually can be seen as putting some aspects of arabs/islam in positive light; it humanized the people and showed not all arabs are the same (they had good/bad arabs in it). People like you are ruinning all forms of creativity You don't like it, no problem criticise it, fair enough but don't be part of cancel culture let people share their art for what they think it is; or else everything will continue to be boring on tv
I disagree. I love Aladdin because the music is phenomenal and I love Robin Williams but the depiction of "Arab culture" has really bugged me since I was a child, mainly because it's such a confused mess. I am half Arab but I was born raised in Ireland. I was the only Arab person in my school, but there were a few Indians, and I remember lots of kids, myself included, being confused about which culture Aladdin was supposed to represent, my own Arab culture or the culture of India, which basically just led to Arabs and Indians being stereotyped as the same thing. Also, that part where the stall owner threatens to cut off Jasmine's hand seems a bit racist me.
@@el-sapo7460 Yeah of course, but that doesn't mean there is no conversation to be had. As a massive Disney fan, Aladdin's cultural insensitivities are a glaring flaw in the movie. You can see they put much more work in these days with movies like Coco and Encanto.
The Americans will twist anything to make a buck and they never lose money making themselves out to be the ONLY country who has intelligence, empathy and humour. As for culture, they don't really have any, so how can they be expected to appreciate anyone else's?
America doesn't have culture? Excuse me? They are the leaders of our global culture. American culture is the most influential and well understood on planet Earth. If aliens came to Earth they would call it Planet America and study American culture. This statement is ludicrous. I also disagree with your first statement but I suppose that is more of a subjective opinion. My experience is that Americans are not like that. In fact they often highly romanticise other cultures and peoples. The problem is that Americans just never interact with other cultures because as I said before, American culture is so dominant. From movies to video games to TV to fashion, Americans are never forced to engage with other cultures, they just enjoy their own and are thus ignorant of other cultures.
@@yoloswaggins7121 The population of China is around 1.4 billion, India has almost as large a population. It also is the world's largest producer of films. If you believe the culture of the United States is what extraterrestrial beings would consider to the dominant one, then you have exactly proven my point.
I agree with this so much. I live in a city where you can't set out your door without being asked about your cultural and religious origins. It was fine at the beginning but now I'm starting to realize the sinister reasons why people do this without even realizing it. People often look at me and can't pinpoint right away my origins and this kind of creates a glitch in their brain because they're itching to put me in a group so they can come up with a conclusion about me based on my origins. This is something I noticed even within the Islamic community. It's disgusting, it's full of racial objectification, and racial superiority.
I feel the solution when portraying other cultures/backgrounds/sexualities etc. is to involve people from those communities in the processes of research and writing.
Of course he does. That doesn't mean that Persians are portrayed in a positive or even balanced way in American media, or are you saying that the Persians portrayed in 300 are realistic portrayals? You do realise that he mentioned that this affects not only Arabs but many other ethnicities even if they are not Muslim, don't you?
@@Mahaodeh well 300 is totally different, its an actual event and yes the 300 movie has fantastical elements, but that doesn't take away from the fact the the Persian empire was trying to invade Greece, so of course the Persians will be seen as the bad guys in the movie. Another example is how the Germans will always be seen as the bad guys in WW1 films. Other than that i personally cant think of any other bad portrayals of Persians in Hollywood. If there are tell me cause i'd like to know.
@jchc VV The "tribal" trope is older than radical fations within war-torn countries or countries tied to post-colonial influence on top of world bank debting. It's as old as triangle trade. In fact, Africa is recovering from the effects of this at an enormous rate their GDPs are doubling every decade. African countries today aren't as poor as they were or people imagine them. There's wide pockets in rural areas where it looks bad but economies have been on the upward. The problem is it takes a lot, lot of time and Africa is still suffering from foreign interests affecting their ability to preserve stable economies. I don't know what you mean by "gun ownership state" it's something you just made up. You mean militant state? It is... it's a fact. The US government is providing military equipment including rocket launchers to the police.
Oh look a somewhat progressive RU-vid channel just released a video on an idea that's kinda left wing and is pioneered by non white peoplw while pointing out problems in pop culture. THE COMMENTS ARE GOING TO BE SO *FUN*.
why did she wear a burqa in the middle of a dessert ? dunno man, lots of sand. it's coarse and it gets everywhere. it also give your enemy a high ground and where not even talking about sandstorm yet
I’m half Arab (Yemeni-Egyptian) and half Irish American, and as a Christian, I get frustrated when people associate Arab=Muslim. My dad’s family are Coptic-Anglican. Not all Arabs are Muslims. Also I loved Aladdin as a kid! Lighten up! It’s a Disney movie. I had Princess Jasmine everything and I still do lol And finally I’m sure Arabs and Muslims at some points viewed Europeans and westerners as things that they were. Ignorant works both ways.
As someone who lives in the Middle East I fully understand this whole video! It's not what ANY movies and songs have depicted. They mix up modesty and culture and bring it to a whole new level.
