Arabs in Hollywood

This is a clip from youtube.com, the link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-Bbz_TBMc. I choose this clip after viewing the portrayal of Arabs in the exam video about Aladin.

The clip begins by showing some clips from Hollywood and then examines clips from the beginning of the movie industry, to present films. The narrator explains how Arabs are always projected as the villain over and over again. Palaces, sandy deserts, and oasis are always portrayed along with stereotypical music, belly dancing, and snake charming.

This video clip explains how the movie industry has this stereotype about Arabs so engrained. It is amazing how all of the clips portraying Arabs do so in the same way. In almost all of the films these people are portrayed with an accent, wearing turbans or having some other stereotypical appearance, being villains and evil, and usually being incompetent.

This film relates to the course material as it is very similar to the Aladdin clip in the exam. If any other minority were to be depicted in this way there would be an outcry. If race is to lose its place in cyberspace, then it must first find its way out of the mass media. Every movie about Arabs consists of the same images and behaviors. The clip can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-Bbz_TBMc.