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Re: Disney Studio's "Alladin"
By:mir
Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2006, 11:22 am
In Response To: Disney Studio's "Alladin" (EBW)

Excuse me, but this makes me snicker a bit. Maybe you've forgotten how many times Christians, Germans, Italians, Chinese, Russians, etc. are stereotyped in film. It's possible to be hyper-sensitive. I'd say that Christians have a better case or one that is just as good as Arabs, but we don't threaten to blow people up. Wonder why?

> The film’s opening song sets the tone;

> "Oh, I come from a land, From a faraway
> place, Where the caravan camels roam, Where
> they cut off your ear If they don’t like
> your face, It’s Barbaric, but hey, it’s
> home."

> Thus the film immediately characterizes the
> Arab world as alien, exotic, and
> "other."

> Arab Americans see this film as perpetuating
> the tired stereotype of the Arab world as a
> place of deserts and camels, of arbitrary
> cruelty and barbarism.

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