Hate Crime and Discrimination Against Arab Americans and Muslim There are many forms of hate crimes that brought attention in the United States and increased throughout 2014. Examples of hate crimes are assault on homeless people, crime on colleges’ campus, crimes on immigrants, hate crimes on Arab American, Muslim, and Asian Pacific American. Also, there are hate crimes on children and hate groups such as civil rights leaders or gay couples. There is diversity, hate crime, which is more alike
The issue of discrimination has been one that has been with our country for years. It became an issue again with the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. It is known that people of Arab decent were behind the attack. Because of that, a huge issue of racial profiling has come up as people look at all people of that decent as evil terrorists. Most of these people have been living in the United States all their lives, and have done nothing to warrant the accusations. The
Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the US: They are mostly presented in many forms by the mass media in the US. Stereotyping Arabs are usually presented in the form of literature, theatre, media and other expressions. These representations had always been negative. In American text books, there are also negative stereotypes for Arabs and Muslims. Rudolph Valentino’s roles in The Sheik (1921) and The Son of the Sheik (1926) set the stage for the negative representation of Arabs in the Hollywood
In an article called “Colorblindness the new racism by Afi Scruggs, she talks about a young African American student named Wooten who had to do a project on his heritage. One problem of the biggest problems that Wooten faced was that he was unaware of African heritage. In class, he would mostly learn about European descent and the majority of the students
The ladies in there are wearing revealing outfits and veils covering their faces. A veil is a religious part of the Arab culture. "The veils are see-through turning something that is supposed to be religiously affiliated into a sexual innuendo. The veil is used as a form of seduction, further arousing curiosity.”(Nelson, Alyssa). Aladdin is a poor homeless man. He lives
highlighted easily by media and catch the attention of general public if they are Muslims. A major role behind these stereotypes is played by the outcomes of the 9/11 attacks. Muslims have been targeted with stigmatization and other forms of racial discrimination. They have to face tight security at international airports. Employers have also been showing concerns or hesitation while hiring Muslims especially the immigrants. Many reasons beside 9/11 attacks behind Muslim stigmatization in United States
Hessian Abbess says he watched in humiliation as two security officers yanked clothes out of his carry-on bag in plain view of dozens of other travelers at Baltimore/Washington International Airport. Hessian Abbess, an Arab lawyer going to a convention, was kept at the gate for 30 minutes that October day. He tried to show them a business card that identified him as member of the National Bar Association, but they paid no attention. "I felt threatened. I felt if I protested too much, I was going
The use of Native Americans as mascots or team names has developed an issue that has been drawing controversy in today’s society. The question that must be asked then is: Why do we as a society quietly permit such disrespectful and hurtful conduct towards Native Americans continue, without taking any affirmative action to restrict it? Having people who run around in war paint and headdresses whooping it up at the sport games doesn’t honor anyone’s culture. It just praises racism and encourages people
paper will discuss the Arab culture and focus mainly on what to do and not to do as a nurse rendering care to an Arab patient. Keywords: culture, holistic, Arab Nursing Care for the Arab Culture In any case, providing competent care to a patient of a different culture must first start with an understanding of the culture itself (Potter & Perry, 2011). Culture is not limited to race and ethnicity (Khalifa, 2012). Matusiak (2013) references the U.S. government definition of Arab persons as “those who
all common interests in our American Society since before the Civil Rights Movement until now and will continue to be. Many theories have been developed with the intent to analyze these concepts of human life, and genetics within the scope of society. Critical Race theory, a modern take on the subtle racism and discrimination in institutional society and our American law, is one of these theories that construct the ideas relating race, gender and social class to American society. All groups of people
to the Federal Bureau Investigation of the Nation’s law enforcement agencies “there were 9,535 victims of hate crimes; of these victims17.1 percent were victimized because of a bias against a religious belief which totaled to be 1,628 victims of an anti-religious hate crime” (1). Almost ten thousand people were victims of hate crimes alone in 2007. That is something to be alarmed about because part of living in the U.S.A as minority is to have freedom to do and be anything you want and yet we find
Although the negative portrayal of Arabs and Muslims have exceeded the normal and caused a huge deterioration for the image of Islam, the American media continue to cross lines including discussing Islamic taboos. According to Kozlovic (2007), Hollywood produced the movie “The Message” portraying the prophet Muhammed (PBUH), which found more
throughout history. The Second World War, the Cold War, and the Gulf War will be used as examples to research the assumption that social cohesion is a result of warfare. I will argue that warfare, opposed to popular belief, causes large-scale discrimination, which in turn creates social division, not cohesion. Once an understanding of the discriminatory effects war causes is expressed, the backbone derived from the research is that we must valiantly oppose military action to uphold our freedom and
served as a catalyst for American Involvement in the middle east and brought
Name of Culture Arab is not a race, but is a group of individuals that are united by their culture and history (ADC, 2014). There are many different variations commonly based on a particular individual’s country of origin such as Arab Americans. Other variations are based on their social class, the level of their education, if they live urbanely or rurally, or the time they have spent in the United States (Lipson & Dubble, 2007). Most Arabs also practice Islamic religion and are Muslim. When
this practice. The United States has fought a long and difficult battle against racism and discrimination. Lives have been lost and many liberties have been infringed upon in the search for racial equality. Now that the 21st century as arrived, a large percentage of our population believes that the human species is intellectually advanced enough to discard race as a factor for any sort of discrimination or specialized treatment. Today, terrorism faces worldwide attention, and it is assumed that
Some American Media outlets prove to be biased; the information they mediate through discourse pictures and videos are often slanted. In order to be able to recognize the impartial from the one-sided opinion, and in order to learn how language, images and videos work to create meaning, one should rely on the science of semiotics. This paper will apply a semiotic approach in analyzing the attacks directed to Arabs by some biased American Media outlets. The first part will deal with discourse and
One of the most tragic events in the history of the United States, the September 11 attacks, changed America in ways of national security, foreign policy, civil liberties, immigration, and the mindset of the average American in general. Four air planes were hijacked by Saudi Arabians, whom were under command of Usama Bin Laden, the master mind behind the attacks. One crashed into rural Pennsylvania, harming no one outside the plane. One hit the side if the Pentagon building in Washington D.C.
The comparison of the London Olympics shows us clear facts. London Olympic in 1948, Japan and German could not participate at all because they lost in the World War two. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not invite these countries because of the pressure from the other countries who won the war. David Runciman, leader in Political Thought at the University of Cambridge said, “The London games of 1908 and 1948 rarely feature in stories of
An estimated one million immigrants come to the United States from all over the world each year. With immigration rates drastically increasing, as are the concerns among some Americans, specifically, the influx of immigrants and refugees from the Middle East. This has been a growing concern since the tragic attacks on 9/11, and the topic of immigration control resurfaces after any terrorist attack committed by a Muslim. Aside from that, there has also been a humanitarian crisis in Syria that produced