Arabs!

                Ever since America became a country it has always been racist whether it was shown or not. Nobody can accept people, they always have to judge a person based on their skin color or even where they come from. Reel Bad Arabs shows exactly how much people look at the Arabs as terrorist or bad people. Only really because of where they came from and because of something that maybe one person has done. The movie showed a lot about how movies perceive Arabs as terrorist; it also had a ton of great points on other stereotypes that Arabs get. There could be a great amount of consequences that the movie industry could receive after a while because they portray these stereotypes. There were a lot of movies that were common to people and I had a lot of connections with the movies and the points that they showed. I had a lot of different reactions to the different movies that I recognized even the movies I didn’t I had a lot of reactions to the attention they give to Arabs.

                There were a few points that really interested me while watching the documentary. The movie made a few interesting points on what Americans portray Arabs as. American movies portray Arabs as sexist, mean, too rich to actually see the value of money, men have an infatuation with women with blonde hair and blue eyes, and they are also portrayed as torture. The movies that they showed had a lot to do with Arabians taking over business or going in killing people. They also show that most Arabian women where silky dance outfits that you can see through and they say Arabian men make women dress like that, therefore being sexist. Another interesting point in the movie was when they showed Aladdin as being one of the examples. I never thought of Aladdin being a movie that is supposed to be racist towards Saudi Arabians. People look at Arabians more as threat now than before because of 9/11 they now see all of the Arabians as terrorist because of one thing but, an interesting point made was about the Oklahoma Bomb. The bomber was Irish and he was declared a terrorist but in the end people didn’t go over to Ireland and attack them. Around America if you looked or were Arabian sometime you would get thrown into jail because, of where you came from. If you had a Middle Eastern trait you were automatically a terrorist.

                There could be consequences because of the movies that could be more suffrage. My view is that when Arabs see the movies that are stereotyping them as dangerous they might want to become more dangerous and actually become deadly. If American producers made movies that had African Americans killing and portrayed as the Arabs are it would be called racist if it was continuously about blacks. The movies are constantly making Middle Eastern people look bad and people don’t consider I against anything. Eventually I see it becoming more of a problem in the end for producers. More and more immigration of Middle Eastern people is more popular as the countries are being taken over and war is going on, once there are enough of the movies being seen it will someday cause uproar. I believe the American film industry is so cavalier with Arabs is because we learn about what happen in their country and we all saw what happened on September 11^th, and the American people are so quick to judge and will believe anyone on TV politically. After 9/11 the president made a lot of assumptions that all Arabian people are terrorist, as a result people look at it the same way because it is how we learn and adapt to the information we are handed.

                I recognized a good amount of the movies that were shown one that stood out was Rules of Engagement (2000) it shows an army shooting innocent people and making them look like the bad guy, well after the shooting it is realized that a little Arabian girl was actually the one opening fire. The movie tried to show that it was okay for them to shoot the children and women that were innocent, then goes to show that everyone owned a gun and still somehow made it look like the Arabians were the bad “terrorist” again. With Aladdin the first time I had ever seen it was when I was little so I thought it was another Disney princess movie, it was actually one of my favorite movies just because of the songs to sing. Now that I look at these movies and the rest that I knew I’m shocked that there are so many that show the racism towards Arabian people.

                The lesson I got from the movie was that a lot of the country is still prejudice towards not only blacks but, to Arabians. The movies have a huge effect on culture just by watching movies you get a view that Arabians are usually rich, mean and believe that torture is the way. I learned that you can’t always judge people because of where they are from. You have to get to know the person you can’t just say that their terrorist because the look like they come from the Middle East. That is what movies want us to see and that is what they try to portray.

                In conclusion, a lot of the movies nowadays and even from the past portray how Arabians are terrorist. How they are mean, rich and love women. If people really think about it you could say Americans are terrorist because, they torture maybe not physically but, by hate. Eventually we will learn to get over the differences that people see in a person just like a lot of people got over blacks. Movies portray Arabs as bad people and as someone you cannot trust but, in all honesty there basing that off a few people that have set that stereotype in perspective.