I found the Arab American presentations interesting. It seems throughout this class that many times when racism is being addressed the minority groups do more to try and stop it, which seems backwards. In the presentations the Arab American singers were advocating peace and multiculturalism while in the white culture they advocate white superiority in the media.
Even in cartoons this is the case! Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny both portrayed Arab Americans in a negative light. This surprised me. I was told in highschool history courses that Arab Americans teach their kids about violence when they are in school and are taught to grow up to defend their faith even if that results in violence. As we learned through the presentations though this is only in extreme cases. Most Muslims are peaceful. There are only a few that are violent, just like there are some white people that are violent. This once again reiterated to me the fact that so often there are misconceptions about minorities, and that as Loewen talks about over and over in his book history really does leave us ignorant of how the world really is.
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