AAPTIS 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Watching Movies, Al-Qaeda, Burqa
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Television and media have depicted arabs as cruel threats to the human race, who devote their lives solely to the destruction of innocent human lives, especially the lives on non- Hollywood loves to create movies like dc 9/11 and under siege where they portray. America being under attack by arab terrorists and the lives of poor innocent americans are always at stake. Through the years arabs have been included more in the media, movies, television programming, and the world is becoming more aware of their existence, but their portrayal in mainstream media is not something to be proud of. The men are constantly being portrayed as angry men with machine guns who hijack airplanes and go on shooting rampages killing innocent people and destroying ionic buildings. The women are depicted to be veiled in full black attire as they run around like ninjas, hiding bombs under their garments.