Re: YOUTUBE EXCLUSIVE: Send me your stereotypes

I dont know about the rest of you but this was my first real exposure to Middle eastern culture, at the tender age of 12! thanks disney!

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[TheBigT89]

another steriotype is that all musilms/arabs wear turbins "Rags"

this is in fact wrong, if you go to many arab/muslim countries eg Lebanon people dont wear turbins "rags" on there heads, although some muslim countries do in fact wear them eg Afgahn people,and some Pakistanis

on another note: i love Aladin (being Arabic myself) its still one of the all time disney classics

[learning2fall88]

i am an egyptian, so one person, when i was going back to egypt, asked my sister if we all live in the pyramids. imagine 70-80 million people crammed into the pyramids.

[whenxdovesxcry]

Thank you! This was my first exposure to Middle Eastern culture too, (granted I was 8 probably) and for the longest time, the time period or any fictional details didn't even register. I actually thought this was what is was like. The racial and gender stereotypes in Disney blow my mind.

[unitus92]

sounds like every other saturday :P

but the irony isnt lost on me

[mre2u2]

Well, Picture Mad Max "throwing a shrimp on da barbie, mate" dressed in outback gear (ala Crocodile Dundee), fighting off the crocs and poisonous snakes, riding their 'roo off into the sunset, mate ;-)

[unitus92]

i see americans as a slowly decaying "race" due to infighting and supersized value meals. And to be completely honest, that s mostly from movies/literature. I wonder the steroetypes that people have about australians

[evilbrainproductions]

I wish it was a stereotype mre2u2.

[mre2u2]

And that IS NOT a stereotype in the mideast, in many areas! (RE:evilbrainproductions)

[mre2u2]

Point taken. Think for just a moment of the stereotypes arabs have about americans and other westerners. No, we don't all wear cowboy hats, own oil wells in Texas, have 25 guns, aren't athiests, and we damn sure aren't monkeys or pigs. We also love our kids, want peace, many of us believe in God, perhaps not the same way muslims do.. Oh yes, we are actually EDUCATED! No, we don't all believe in what our leaders do, but that is the purpose of a democratic republic, is it not? Pray for peace!

[lebasilah]

I'm Arab, and I've liked this movie ever since I was a kid.  haha Maybe because I'm Lebanese, and we don't even have a desert, much less camels, in Lebanon.