Issue 3

In today’s world people are judged by their appearances and the color of their skin. The media does a good job at making the viewer believe the stereotypes. Arabs are viewed as if they are terrorist due to the fact that one person committed a crime. In my opinion, not all Arabs are the same just because they might dress the same and or practice the same religion; this doesn’t define them as terrorists. The media can be strong in conveying that all Arabs have the same believes and ideas of their religion. For instance, in a widely viewed TV show called Family Guy they make the viewer believe that Arabs are bad and are all corrupt, you have children of all ages watching this even though they rate it PG-13. They are programming children at a young age to believe these stereotypes. However, I think that they do a lot for us; for example, give us oil. We don’t hear the media advertising the good they do. One should think about the help they give us instead of judging them for what one guy did to our country. I believe that in every race there will be people that make the entire race look bad, and for that we shouldn’t judge them. I think the media has a lot of fault for the way society thinks; we should not see them as a whole but as individuals.