Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie spoke the words, “The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” One common misconception held by many people is that the terms “Muslim” and “Arab” refer to the same group of people. The two terms mean completely different things and refer to two different aspects and larger ideas. In some cases, a person could fall into both categories, but the assumption that this is always true gives an incomplete and false story to the people who are not represented by it. Assigning someone a single story is dangerous because it forces them into a box and detrimentally determines how they live their lives. Some people have to live in fear for no …show more content…
As Julita says in her article, “Difference Between Muslims and Arabs”, “Muslims are individuals embracing the religion Islam, hence Muslims are part of a religious sect. Arabs on the other hand are individuals that dwell or own the Arabian or Arab regions.” You cannot compare two things that are completely different and expect them to be the exact same thing. Comparing Muslims and Arabs is like comparing snow and sand - two completely different things. In our world today, some people are shunned and have negative stereotypes because of their religion. One example of this is how some people think that all Muslims are terrorists, which that by itself is untrue and a very uneducated statement. However, some people who are Arab are thought to be Muslims and then those negative associations are placed upon them. That almost forces fear into people who have no business feeling it. The grouping of the two unalike terms causes a lot of unneeded pain and suffering that ruins lives. One common misconception that often ties the two together is how a lot of people who live in an Arabian region also practice the Islam religion. This is like saying that someone that lives in India has to practice Hinduism. While a lot of people in India practice Hinduism, it is ridiculous to think that everyone does. Just because someone lives in a certain region does not mean they need to practice a certain
On May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama delivered the speech announcing the death of the former leader of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden was responsible for thousands of deaths on the September 11th terrorist attacks in the US along with leaving children without a father or a mother for the rest of their lives. The speech was what Americans were waiting for after all the evil that bin Laden has done in the world. Throughout the speech, Obama uses rhetorical appeals such as ethos, pathos, and logos to address the nation saying that justice is served by killing Osama bin Laden and making the speech effective to the audience.
Kitwood, T. (1983) ‘Self-conception among young British- Asian Muslims: confutation of a stereotype’, in G. Breakwell (ed), Threatened Identities, Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
...ld want to avoid, stay away from, and keep maximum distance between. Since September 11th, people say those same things in our modern society. Those wearing turbans are often looked down upon and cause people to feel nervous around them. Another way people are stereotyped compared to those in the past are by an individual’s religion. Before September 11th, Muslims were seen as peaceful people; however since that eventful day, they are not looked at the same. People see them as different and many see them as a threat to security, harmful to our society, and not those of the type of people that can be trustworthy. They are currently being stereotyped just as those who had “illnesses” and were accused of witchcraft in the past.
On September 11, 2001, since the terrorist attacks, many American Muslims have been stereotyped negatively in the United States. Salma, a Muslim woman, says that the way Muslims have been recognized in the media has played a big role in the antagonism directed at her. “I don’t know how many times I heard my classmates accuse me of being al-Qaeda or a terrorist” (Mayton 2013). Salma, along with other Muslims, even after a decade, are still struggling with trying to find their “American” and “Islamic” identities, while facing verbal attacks for their ethnicity. Too often, the general Muslim population gets lumped in with the immoral acts of a few because of the lack of knowledge about their culture.
Sherman Alexie’s Flight Patterns, which discusses racial stereotypes, relates to the effects of 9/11 on American citizens, who tend to inappropriately judge Muslim and other cultures in the world today. Although 9/11 was a horrible day, it still should not be used to categorize and stereotype people. Stereotypes do nothing but harm to the people who receive it and to the people who dish it out.
First of all, according to an Islamic rhetoric, there is only one god who is Allah, and he is the only one who is transcend and absolute. Therefore, it is hard to say that apostles such as Muhammad, Abraham, Moses and Jesus are admired by people because they are one of gods. Abraham, Moses and Jesus are admired by Islamic people because they received a revelation from God and truly obeyed it. To sum up in a word, Islam is a religion that allowed to obey only one god which is Allah, and revealed to people by a prophet named Muhammad.
After I read the Smitherman's piece, the main argument that Smitherman is trying to tell us is that everyone has their own way of language. There are people with different ethnicity in America. Every communities has their own language and accents, noone should be telling anyone that they have language problem. Not allowing a person to use their language is racism. This is the problem Smitherman is trying to address in his piece of writing. I think by her writing this is to let people know and feel what is going on in the world. Her audience might be the Black American community. She wants the people to know that there is nothing wrong with speaking their own language anywhere and they should be able to speak how they want.
Louis Farrakhan is the Muslim leader of the Nation Of Islam, headquartered in Chicago. Farrakhan has made it clear that the Nation Of Islam wants to see the United States of America literally become a "nation of Islam."
Muslim children face high level of discrimination at their schools as they are welcomed with negative comments about their religion by the children of other religions. Though abnormal but normally Muslim students are labeled as Terrorists and they are often verbally coerced and mocked to migrate back to their native countries. The overall conclusion can be drawn as the study that United States suffered a lot during the attacks of 9/11 but the ones who are still facing the aftermath of that incident are the Muslims around the globe and especially those present in United States. Various reasons other than 9/11 attacks behind Muslim stigmatization around globe include stereotyping against Muslims in terms of non-flexibility, uncommon culture, simple life style and aggressive behavior.
Marcus Riding Ms. Krick English 8 12 March 2024 Why Courage Is Time Consuming, Yet worth it “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Being courageous is about taking risks to defend yourself from thoughts or people causing the fear. Courage is bravery, and bravery gives success, like a person giving a gift to another. Even though being courageous is more feared than the fear itself, it can be overcome because of calmness and belief.
Numerous events have occurred in the past that have led to the discrimination and marginalization of various populations of the world. Religion, education, war and other socio-cultural aspects of society have led to the development of perceptions and stereotypes against various world communities. The world over, for example, developed a negative attitude towards the Muslim community after the numerous terrorist attacks that had been plotted and accomplished in the name of the Islam religion. Every society in the world has developed a specific stereotype towards a specific individual, community or other social and cultural aspects of life, and this has always had a precise reason or cause. Historical injustices that continue to haunt the world even today have been instigated due to a number of reasons back then.
People being generalized based on limited and inaccurate information by sources as television, cartoons or even comic books (Tripod). This is a definition that seems to go against many public standards. The above words are the exact definition of stereotypes. Stereotypes as understood from the definition, goes mostly hand in hand with media -- only not the regular meaning of the innocent media we know. Media propaganda is the other form of media that is rather described as media manipulation. In this paper, the following will be discussed: first, how stereotypes of ethnic groups function in propaganda, why does it function so well, and finally, the consequences of these stereotypes on the life of Egyptians in particular in society. A fair examination will be conducted on this example of stereotypes through clarification examples and research results from researches conducted from reliable sources. The real association between Egyptians’ stereotypes and propaganda discussed in this paper shall magnify the association of stereotypes and propaganda in general.
The Doctrine of The Mean is the Aristotelian writing of virtues, of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle explains virtue as the excellence and the good of the character, in reflection to the good or the virtues of an action:
In the essay, the writer acknowledges the misunderstandings that come from media images by explaining the contrasts between these images and the teachings of the faith to support her claim that fear is the reason for this misconception. The conception that many people have of Muslims is that they are terrorists, anti-Semites, and fanatics. This conception exsists because television news and newspapers support that stereotype. The broadcast of such stereotypes encourages fear and accusations of the Islamic relegion's teachings. The writer explains that Islam teaches peace, tolerance, and equality. She further states that Muslims shown in the media have violated these teachings ...
Research has shown that all this is possible because of scientific racism and the specific characteristics of races. The troubled topic is something that would be better off, without. Works Cited Ali Rattansi, Racism: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 14. Rattansi, Racism, 13-14. Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, The Cold War, and the Roots of Terror (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005), 5.