Stereotypical Middle East

This here is a video called "Rent A Rab" that I found at the website, http://youtube.com/watch?v=NZU-5gUkKO0.



Americans stereotype in their normal speech, whether it is joking around or being completely serious, it is inexcusable. A person can ask someone, “Hey, how was the basketball game yesterday?” And the response would be, “It was alright, but there was this black kid that could jump really high, he almost dunked.” These words prove that as we try to stop genocides like Rwanda, Darfur, and even the tussle between Israel and Palestine, we are no better at racially profiling than they are. Both Israel and Palestine fight each other because they both want more land? Or is it because their societies teach the upcoming generations to hate the opposing; Palestinians are taught to hate Israelis and vice versa. The constant racial slurs that come out of our mouths are made to be by our country that they are “okay” to say. Countless times have I heard the theory that we should have just “nuked” Iraq, but is it true that all Iraqis are terrorists? The way we say these things, we are just teaching the next generation to think like us. This is why it took slavery such a long time to end, because fathers and mothers continued telling their children that people of color are not equal. It is our generation that teaches the next, it is our troops in Iraq and our country that are going to teach those kids that violence and terrorism is not acceptable in this world.

JG Sherree!