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  • From Aladdin to Bodak Yellow, the media is obsessed with portraying Arabs and Muslims as exotic and mysterious. So why is this sort of imagery so pervasive?
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  • @vanetiamentor764
    @vanetiamentor764 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4414

    Also how africa ... (yes the whole continent ) get portrayed as poor dusty and dirty..... and usa as the hero in all situations coming to save the day....

    • @moemawri1407
      @moemawri1407 6 ปีที่แล้ว +415

      Vanetia Mentor Africa is probably the richest continent in natural resources. European countries still cause chaos there to take the gold, diamonds and oil. We are the suckers that fall for every b.s. told to us.

    • @kanejarrett1671
      @kanejarrett1671 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      USA coming to save the day? Is that the African perception?

    • @ingridp4457
      @ingridp4457 6 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Vanetia Mentor as far as i have Seen Africa is indeed dusty and poor, though you forgot to add corrupt

    • @shh11111
      @shh11111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah

    • @bolaatanda6944
      @bolaatanda6944 6 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Ingrid P not every where in Africa is like that

  • @maryamtina6165
    @maryamtina6165 5 ปีที่แล้ว +987

    “Oh you’re Arab! You don’t look like princess jasmine!”
    “ yeah sorry I forgot my pet tiger home”
    I hate when that happens

    • @mitonaarea5856
      @mitonaarea5856 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Literally nobody says that😂😂😂

    • @h7672
      @h7672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      wtf someone said that? no way

    • @DovahkiinDk
      @DovahkiinDk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      facts lmao

    • @Andrea-sl8wd
      @Andrea-sl8wd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They just say, big nose you have.

    • @mylifeismiserableandsoami953
      @mylifeismiserableandsoami953 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@Andrea-sl8wd honey, not all of us have big noses
      *i mean, well i do but no all of us do*

  • @Enjoytheshow435
    @Enjoytheshow435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +900

    I’m an Egyptian, born and raised in a Mediterranean town and the only time I’ve seen a desert was in Vegas.

    • @ardget1664
      @ardget1664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      good one bro 😂😂😂
      greetings from jordan

    • @Enjoytheshow435
      @Enjoytheshow435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ardget thanks lol greeting:)

    • @wsdadasdawf8384
      @wsdadasdawf8384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      you are in a desert, it just has buildings over it, still a desert tho

    • @Enjoytheshow435
      @Enjoytheshow435 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      @@wsdadasdawf8384 i’m so sorry that you don’t have a passport, nor a map lol

    • @wsdadasdawf8384
      @wsdadasdawf8384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Enjoytheshow435 first of all what passport second of all its like Phoenix, looks like a city but really its a desert

  • @emmarina3525
    @emmarina3525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Someone online legit thought I was in a desert living in a tent near the pyramids with only a camel for transportation and no technology available to me because I told them I'm Egyptian...

  • @camilorico5361
    @camilorico5361 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3170

    Most people from the USA never travel abroad so they have a limited view of the world .

    • @thesunmountain
      @thesunmountain 6 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Because it's too far/isolated from the rest of the world

    • @SoLiTaRyBoNe
      @SoLiTaRyBoNe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      linus karlshammar not really. I lived in the US for years now and I can assure you that every single nationality can be here. So no it's not "too far from the rest of the world" because the world isn't that big. If so why other people are capable of coming here but Americans can't?

    • @wasiqmohammad9879
      @wasiqmohammad9879 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      its mostly the one that cant aford to see the rest of the world and afford collge to learn other cultures the more privleged americans can afford to go to dubai and egypt and see the world and not just get their news from fox news

    • @mashi4525
      @mashi4525 6 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      They believe the world are centered around them..

    • @greatpretender1943
      @greatpretender1943 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I agree. Also I don't think they knew the rest of the world is gonna see those movies. Or at least not the "Arab world " . It's like they are making them only for American people. Didn't expect them to be world wide seen .😂

  • @atomnium
    @atomnium 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2283

    We do have cities and malls like you guys we are not aliens lol

    • @louvrebaby
      @louvrebaby 5 ปีที่แล้ว +340

      Yamada Mokoto they wanna say that middle east is dangerous but still saying they wanna go dubai lMAO

    • @youssefsaad9277
      @youssefsaad9277 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      they too have cities, so it would be redundant to show a city. Also I think they know that already

    • @ramezhamarneh4608
      @ramezhamarneh4608 5 ปีที่แล้ว +122

      We have had cities before their countries even came into being. Before any of the current surviving religions even existed. We are the cradle of civilization, that is something they will never take from us. The Mesopotamia region and Egypt at the very least.

    • @Mikewee777
      @Mikewee777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ••Pathetic Being•• knows he is a illegal space alien.

    • @reallyann0yingdin0saur65
      @reallyann0yingdin0saur65 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah, but that doesn't apply to films like Aladdin on this list. That film was based, like, thousands of years ago.

  • @chewher4171
    @chewher4171 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1154

    I'm Asian American and I felt the same way when I watched Mulan.

    • @MrPoornakumar
      @MrPoornakumar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +86

      OK, Chew Her! Only people from East Asia are classed as (the) Asians, in America. Though East Asia is just one of the similar sized other arts of Asia - Middle East (West Asia), South Asia, South East Asia, Central Asia & North Asia (Siberia mainly). It breeds bad education among American children. They don't see a Middle Easterner (from Turkey, Iran, Jordan or Israel - yes, Israel is in Asia nor Europe) as Asian at all. They grow up (some have already grown up idiots) & argue on demographic-ethnic nuances in Asia to divide continents. It is exasperating. Why don't they teach Geography (what is being taught there - if at all - isn't Geography) in America?

    • @polybian_bicycle
      @polybian_bicycle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      To ask for a show to completely accurately portray a whole culture with all it's multifaceted parts is quite a big ask.
      But I feel that the discourse surrounding the west, about how it's a white supremacist patriarchy is kind of like the new Orientalism, but now just about the Occident. In this discourse the Occident is seen as a monolithic block of world devouring megalomaniacal toxic masculinity.

    • @baamonster2
      @baamonster2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      You're dumb, how is mulan offensive?

    • @civilengineer3349
      @civilengineer3349 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@baamonster2 well if you're from Northwestern China, then you won't like how they portrayed the Huns lol. Mulan was also unpopular in China as it's humor and characters behavior and way of speaking was very Americanized. It would probably appeal to Chinese-Americans more than mainland China

    • @EspeonMistress00
      @EspeonMistress00 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@civilengineer3349 Well it wasn't meant for Chinese and was meant for Western audience, so there

  • @aia1190
    @aia1190 5 ปีที่แล้ว +693

    thanks to this sort of media betrayal my siblings and I grew up “lightly” being called terrorists by other classmates, and I always felt like I had to be extra nice to people to compensate for the bad rep Arabs get in order to assert the “we’re not all inherently evil okay”
    Message

    • @dodosback
      @dodosback 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Same. It must be a lot harder for a female though. When it was said about me most of the time it was a joke thankfully. Must be harder to have dealt with it as a girl since people would most of the time say it in order to hurt your feelings. I'm sorry.

    • @aia1190
      @aia1190 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@dodosback it was delivered in a comedic way most of the time, sometimes it was to provoke some sort of reaction but yeah people can be ignorant i guess, having said that the world is getting a little *too* PC in my opinion

    • @mariuszj3826
      @mariuszj3826 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I lived with Muslims when I was working in the UK. Two guys from Egypt they were super nice and even invited me for breakfast. I was 18 at the time and this was post 9/11 but I never had a deep seeded disdain towards Muslims anyway.

    • @lilahdog568
      @lilahdog568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It's a disgrace to the supposedly best country on earth that in 2019, we still demonize and dehumanize ppl based on their ethnicity, but America's just another country and isn't as awesome or special as ppl make it out to be, so I shouldn't be shocked

    • @mariuszj3826
      @mariuszj3826 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lilahdog568 No country is special. All countries have skeletons and prejudices in their closet.

  • @mounirbaroudi5890
    @mounirbaroudi5890 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1014

    I'm from a Moroccan background, but I was born in the US in 1992 and grew up in northern NJ. When I saw Aladdin as a kid, I didn't even register it as an Arab film. I thought it was more Indian-Hindu or something. I think that speaks to how mis-represented the Arab world was. At least now, Disney wouldn't be able to get away with a movie like that again.

    • @IchibotK
      @IchibotK 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      There are themes from all the cultures you mentioned, in the film. The overwhelming misconception is that the setting is in the ME, when it indeed is in NW India.

    • @darkforest2411
      @darkforest2411 6 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      Mounir Baroudi
      Me too I always thought Aladdin as an Indian movie done by Disney 😂

    • @Riri.0_0.
      @Riri.0_0. 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      I’m half Moroccan and half Bengali but I was raised in London, it looked more Bengali/Indian to me and nothing moroccan/arab when I watched Aladdin.

    • @meemoo9693
      @meemoo9693 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Saaaame 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @minahel5449
      @minahel5449 6 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      I love the movie but I think Disney tried to create a token "brown" princess that would portray ALL of the middle east and south asia so they could kind of check those regions off their list. The movie is honestly a cultural mess!

  • @alana7590
    @alana7590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +903

    Princess Jasmine is actually Iraqi from Baghdad. 🇮🇶

    • @nooraskrive
      @nooraskrive 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      SEE I CAN FINALLY PROVE TO MY FRIENDS THAT I AM THE REAL LIFE JASMINE jk but finally some Iraqi representation ❤️🇮🇶

    • @HyunjinAesthetic
      @HyunjinAesthetic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Ayat Y.R oof i am from Iraq,Baghdad 😂

    • @martinmulyadi1583
      @martinmulyadi1583 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@HyunjinAesthetic wow, im very surprise that iraq still got the internet despite war

    • @johnny-no4vd
      @johnny-no4vd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      شكلها مال هنديه يا عراقيه 🤣😂انوب من بغداد

    • @subaruyagami2327
      @subaruyagami2327 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Jay A Disney isn't the writer of the story, so it doesn't matter what they say. It is a chinese story, so jasmine is chinese.

  • @user-ny9kc4lm6p
    @user-ny9kc4lm6p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +362

    Americans really need to travel overseas more often...

    • @guardianoffire8814
      @guardianoffire8814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      The American already do. The Americans have 800+ military bases across the world.

    • @DG-kf5cu
      @DG-kf5cu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Mohammed Alshoaibl as much as I would love to travel overseas I don't have that kind of money.

    • @leticia-jm9tx
      @leticia-jm9tx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      nah their educational system gotta add up geography lessons asap

    • @litobeatz639
      @litobeatz639 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@guardianoffire8814 good one

    • @DG-kf5cu
      @DG-kf5cu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Syphax Atlas Let me guess the pandemic. :) unless it's something else

  • @mranonymous1547
    @mranonymous1547 5 ปีที่แล้ว +451

    Stereotyping a whole country or a religious group based on an imagination . Which they portrait in movies , music only American can do that with their minimum knowledge about outer world and culture and assume something so easily.

    • @rodrigocastillo9825
      @rodrigocastillo9825 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Everyone in every fuking country have an stereotypical view of every other country. It just happens that those faties (us americans) are really good creating movies.

    • @presbourg
      @presbourg 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Rodrigo Castillo the worst is the western ppl they stereotyping other ppl are evils and they are hero...and they propogate it in media and holly wood

    • @rodrigocastillo9825
      @rodrigocastillo9825 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@presbourg you just said that western people are the worst. Isn't that an stereotype? And why is that wrong? People like to find easy patterns in everything, it's natural, it's stupid, but natural. Everybody in every country think the people that are not like them are the worst. Don't be a hypocrite.

    • @Userdoesnotexit
      @Userdoesnotexit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@rodrigocastillo9825 I mean historically westerns are the worst.lol

    • @rodrigocastillo9825
      @rodrigocastillo9825 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Userdoesnotexit Ok.

  • @muna712boulos
    @muna712boulos 6 ปีที่แล้ว +681

    I'm an Arab Christian and i feel like when people say Arabs they mean Muslim.
    And I agree when I watched aladdin growing up I saw it as this foreign land because it's so not the reality

    • @user-nt6rr4wr4b
      @user-nt6rr4wr4b 6 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Mona Z
      And i'm Arab Atheist and some stupid people thinks that all Arabs are muslims .

    • @g3010h
      @g3010h 6 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      muna boulos True! Not only that, when people say Muslim they always think of Arab, you can be Arab and not a Muslim, and you can be Muslim and not an Arab.

    • @mohamedred5746
      @mohamedred5746 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wrath of Achilles
      Yeah of course...

    • @ramizureikat3793
      @ramizureikat3793 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      muna boulos ممكن نتعرف؟ انتي من وين؟ انا كمان مسيحي من الاردن

    • @mblackops2
      @mblackops2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      La Gata Azul Exactly it bugs me out even though I'm Muslim

  • @johnnish5042
    @johnnish5042 6 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    Indians and arabs aren’t the same

    • @rosedonna3946
      @rosedonna3946 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      John Nish did you watch the whole video?

    • @hellohello9400
      @hellohello9400 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      bingo! Al-Jazeera acting like this affects only Arabs/Muslims

    • @zuluzero4659
      @zuluzero4659 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      John Nish but indians and pakistanis are similar apart from the religion however i know alot of sikh people that live in pakistan.

    • @hellohello9400
      @hellohello9400 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ZULU ZERO there are no Sikh Pakistanis

    • @guesswho9791
      @guesswho9791 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No one said they were

  • @jessica2575
    @jessica2575 5 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Truth! Aladdin is a cool story that is badly executed.

    • @morugascorpion6021
      @morugascorpion6021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      mana269 Should he have been executed by stoning, crucifixion or beheading?

    • @60lbsant40
      @60lbsant40 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Twittering Machine 🤦🏽‍♀️

    • @hussambruh7888
      @hussambruh7888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@morugascorpion6021 what is wrong with you?

    • @FreePalestine_____
      @FreePalestine_____ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@morugascorpion6021 Don't read Bible too much.Specially the old testaments.

    • @lets_wrapitup
      @lets_wrapitup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Moruga Scorpion you know what’s funny? Islam forbids all 3 of what you just said

  • @bestryfulhd2102
    @bestryfulhd2102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    I am an arab .. and i love all my brothers in islam .. 😙😙 especially indonesians and bangladish

    • @nxfisal3656
      @nxfisal3656 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Bestryful HD thanks 🇮🇩

    • @bestryfulhd2102
      @bestryfulhd2102 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Noble Six
      Hahaha .. first u need to check if your parents are ur real parents +/+

    • @rubaiyatmehedi9337
      @rubaiyatmehedi9337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks habibi🇧🇩🇧🇩

    • @riyajulislam1815
      @riyajulislam1815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love you brother for Allah

    • @mylodonmilonair5997
      @mylodonmilonair5997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not all muslim are middle eastern

  • @numberone22459
    @numberone22459 6 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    Its so annoying non Arabs always think that us Arabs balling and don't know what to do with our money. Sure a lot of Arabs live luxurious lifestyles but that doesn't mean you get to categorize us all like that.

    • @Aaron565
      @Aaron565 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      its because of the wealth inequality my dude. rich russians/chinese get the same response. its not a blanket thing these people used tyranny and slavery to build their cities

    • @joncund8021
      @joncund8021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sarah no one thinks that anyway so you’re fine

    • @yourmailishere
      @yourmailishere 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      oh boo hoo lmaoooo

    • @HusXX
      @HusXX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @water tastes so good People does. Especially the idiot Western people. They think we are all living like the rich families in the Gulf states which don't even respresent the whole Arab world.

    • @PoisonelleMisty4311
      @PoisonelleMisty4311 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How about the arab spring 2011? Poverty, cruelty unemployment started a revolution. It's not like people got bored

  • @user-eg2bz5to2v
    @user-eg2bz5to2v 6 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    i am a russian and i lived in egypt for 15 years, and you know what i miss them i wish i can go back and live with them.

    • @yahyaelnaggar2264
      @yahyaelnaggar2264 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is good to read, Come back as nearest as you can!!! All Love From Egypt.

    • @betty3910
      @betty3910 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      يا ضنااااايا 😍 انا من المغرب على فكرة بس أسعدني التعليق دا ❤❤🇲🇦

    • @user-kv1dd7iz4d
      @user-kv1dd7iz4d 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I am Algerian and im very fond of Egyptians they are cool and kind with a great sense of humor 😍😍😍

    • @dzair2093
      @dzair2093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Our egyptian siblings are cool, generous, and kind we are pretty sure u enjoyed your life there 😍😍♥

    • @ruwhite6312
      @ruwhite6312 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Egypt was lit

  • @matthewjroth8355
    @matthewjroth8355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    And why is the only thing Americans know about Egypt the pyramids and camels? Dang.

    • @KatrinaDancer
      @KatrinaDancer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don't 4get bellydancing 💃

    • @waterotter3625
      @waterotter3625 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I know for a fact that you all have flying carpets.
      You also have no defenses against marauding mummies. Poor you.

    • @martinbryan137
      @martinbryan137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you forgot mummies.

    • @Bloody-Butterfly
      @Bloody-Butterfly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They don't teach us a lot about other countries in school.

    • @thehills9
      @thehills9 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Bloody-Butterfly your life doesn’t revolve around the American education system, google it, educate yourself!

  • @alikhanmoazzam
    @alikhanmoazzam 5 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    We Pakistanis aren't Arabs !!

    • @ureedaharshad2244
      @ureedaharshad2244 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Soooo true don't know why people call us 😒

    • @user-mh7lg1wx7z
      @user-mh7lg1wx7z 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Is being arabian make u feel ashamed or what? Relax no one cares

    • @morugascorpion6021
      @morugascorpion6021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Then you all should stop trying to act like them.

    • @sifu.noa_arts
      @sifu.noa_arts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      we shouldn't feel ashamed.

    • @shambhavidikshit310
      @shambhavidikshit310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@kareemr3436
      Let me tell you one thing only 2% of Pakistanis would be proper arab .
      Rest have much more a mixture of Indian,Afghan,Greek and a little Turkish DNA

  • @wilhelmurg
    @wilhelmurg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +655

    You need to do one on how Native Americans are portrayed as 19th-century people, and how many Native Americans have taken this on as their "identity," rather than the image of contemporary people who are still here.

    • @lynnelarson6972
      @lynnelarson6972 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Absolutely. Native Americans have been subjected to this for a very, very long time. It has continued to hurt them.

    • @finleycmacalpine2473
      @finleycmacalpine2473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      because of residential schools we've lost our culture and had to create or fill in details,, example the medicine wheel.

    • @lynnelarson6972
      @lynnelarson6972 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Residential schools that are other-culture based and either/or ignorant or hostile to native culture.

    • @finleycmacalpine2473
      @finleycmacalpine2473 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that isn't a complete sentence,

    • @drcullen41
      @drcullen41 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There's an excellent documentary about this, it's called "Reel Injun"

  • @FADE2maWAY
    @FADE2maWAY 6 ปีที่แล้ว +592

    I'm Italian, first in my family born in America(i also happen to be a Muslim revert). Our culture has this happened alot. As soon as someone finds out I'm italian, I hear something like "I love Olive Garden! Do you have family in the Mafia?".
    Its not as bad now, but when my family first came here, my mother wouldn't even let me speak Italian in public, because of how she had been treated.

    • @pricutie3198
      @pricutie3198 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      matthewburanich
      Relatable, I'm sorry your mother got treated like that. Anyway don't let them stop you from embracing your culture and mother tongue.

    • @FADE2maWAY
      @FADE2maWAY 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Iman E oh I'm very proud of my culture, that is one thing we kept at home. American culture is so bland haha. Unfortunately I understand Italian, but can only speak a little.

    • @pricutie3198
      @pricutie3198 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      matthewburanich
      👍 that's great and heey you can always take classes or learn it if you want to.

    • @FADE2maWAY
      @FADE2maWAY 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      shield&sword peace wa iyaak. Yes in America there is this expectation and social pressure to fully assimilate, often shaming you if you don't.

    • @pricutie3198
      @pricutie3198 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      shield&sword peace
      Ameen brother may Allah bless you too, but I'm a sister lol. Yeah, I think it's cause American culture and English language are more dominant. I live in Europe too and most foreigner I know do speak /understand ( or some of) their mother tongue (it depends). But we kind of lose it too :( . Germany is closer to Italy, maybe they visit more often and that way they can practice speaking more?

  • @mosesposes6427
    @mosesposes6427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I didn't choose to be Lebanese
    I just got lucky

    • @zeratulofaiur2589
      @zeratulofaiur2589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The land of Phoenicia.

    • @mariorizkallah5383
      @mariorizkallah5383 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Zeratul Of Aiur we are arabs with Phoenician origins, because we have lots of arabian dna soo

    • @zeratulofaiur2589
      @zeratulofaiur2589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mariorizkallah5383 Still, it is the land of Phoenicia, and it is our heritage, and we should cherish it. Everybody is a mix these days. DNA has nothing to do with the fact that still, Lebanon is is the land of Phoenicia.

    • @akramalmoughraby9992
      @akramalmoughraby9992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@zeratulofaiur2589 but we're arabs

    • @Xerxes2528
      @Xerxes2528 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@akramalmoughraby9992 are we gonna have the usual "Arab/Phoenician" Argument 🤣

  • @ellykhosravi562
    @ellykhosravi562 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I'm Iranian and I'm studying fashion, I wanna show the culture in my brand and I'm not exoticizing it to offend other middle easterns. So I apparently I can't do it anymore?

    • @disco_depression
      @disco_depression 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As a turk I LOVE iranian names and culture. You guys have a great language.

    • @imanelabyad6951
      @imanelabyad6951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@disco_depression as a arab i love and respect turks and persians🤩😀😀😀
      Live the ottoman caliphat
      We are brothers in faith and religions
      I love turkish drama
      I know some turks words : evet(yes)
      Yok(no)coke gusel and seniseviyurum( i love you )

    • @disco_depression
      @disco_depression 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@imanelabyad6951 same habibi

    • @ehabl8816
      @ehabl8816 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think iranians are pretty close to Arabs in culture so it's okay

    • @jeremyunger9806
      @jeremyunger9806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd do what you want and try your best not to worry about what either racist/over-sensitive ppl think

  • @lawrencehasn4809
    @lawrencehasn4809 6 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    almost 99% of the comments starts with "I AM....."
    LOL

    • @omergamal1257
      @omergamal1257 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      lawrence hasn and you got your country's flag there that's why your comment didn't start with I'm hehe.

    • @wahyutyas9581
      @wahyutyas9581 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Okey...I'm not arab. I'm chinese. I'm muslim.

    • @mario_adv2nture
      @mario_adv2nture 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wahyu Tyassholiha noice

    • @haneen4299
      @haneen4299 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      lawrence hasn 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴

    • @adkhalil6194
      @adkhalil6194 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Couldn't find a single one.

  • @annachan8151
    @annachan8151 6 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    Note: Iranians aren't Arabs!
    They're Persians.
    Edit: "mostly Persians". Also Kurd, Lur, Balouchi, Azeri turks and Turkic people and also some Arab people in the south.

    • @mrnlul6421
      @mrnlul6421 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ANNA chan one trigerred persian but hey whatever one piece fan. Anime the only religion kappa

    • @mftamo
      @mftamo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Last time I️ checked, the Persian empire doesn’t exist anymore. Iranians are Iranians.

    • @aaax332
      @aaax332 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Tamana Fatah maybe you should check your knowledge on the difference btwn ethnicity and nationality. you can be persian and iranian at the same time

    • @darknesslight9630
      @darknesslight9630 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jorhem
      60 percent of iranian are persians and ethnic groups like lurs or kurds or ... in iran are close to persians. Name of iran in western languages and history is persia.

    • @darknesslight9630
      @darknesslight9630 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jorhem
      You are stupid or something? im persian and I know what is persian and what is not. Its like I discuss with a Chinese about china.

  • @ghizlenesn4341
    @ghizlenesn4341 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    I mean I am from Algeria but I don't go believing everything I watch on TV or the about other countries.

    • @The0Mage0Ops
      @The0Mage0Ops 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mahmood Akrout we are almost the same we have the same history religion language and so on.. but of course there are some differences but not too many

    • @Sohiawrites
      @Sohiawrites 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wish absolutely not the same history or language. What are you on? 🤣

    • @dzair2093
      @dzair2093 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @LV skinny most algerians don't know a word in Berber, there are berbers who speak their own language and the rest speak darija which is 70% Arabic and 30% foreign languages

    • @sulfarussulfarus3378
      @sulfarussulfarus3378 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Zayd V you can't be more wrong..Lebanon is not jsut beyrout..and egypt is not what you see in their media and movies...north African mentality is still close to the French lifestyle even though they are Muslim..so yeah...

    • @sulfarussulfarus3378
      @sulfarussulfarus3378 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Zayd V not offended here ..but it is funny to me to say that Egyptians are open minded ..when i visited with my sister...guys were hitting on her even when she was inside the taxi regardless that i was there...like they never seen a woman before .also even 12 years old girls wear hijab ..i was shocked..even though it was the capital..letalone other regions....maybe you meant these countries are more touristics..but nothing about the middle eastren mindset is open minded ...at least not more than the north african ones

  • @sanda4486
    @sanda4486 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I’m Arab and I actually support this cuz it’s in our tradition to invite people into our culture me seeing these artist and movies and all this stuff makes me happy that people are actually liking our tradition and enjoying it so I’m not offended by any means

  • @-nadine-3509
    @-nadine-3509 6 ปีที่แล้ว +319

    I'm glad someone mentioned this topic. Whenever I make new online friends they be like "OMG but you don't look Arabian at all. You don't look like Jasmine from Aladdin and you don't act like an Arab" and I'm like how dumb can people get

    • @-nadine-3509
      @-nadine-3509 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Anton EightBall actually I had a lot tell me that and I also had others who asked if I looked like Cleopatra because I'm Egyptian. People think Arabs still wear that old Jasmine costume and Egypians are still Pharoahs and I'm not really THAT desperate to look for attention online :)

    • @-nadine-3509
      @-nadine-3509 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Anton EightBall Trust me almost everyone thinks that. They think Egyptians live in Pyramids and Arabs still live in tents and that we go to school by camels. They barely even know where Egypt is on the map. I'm not saying them asking if I look like Cleopatra is a bad thing, I'm just surprised at how uneducated people are

    • @Misssahraouia76
      @Misssahraouia76 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      well i am French/Moroccan half Gibraltarian so european on the side of my mother and my father is european half north african, one year i went to visit the country of my paternal grandfather my friends came with me, one of them told me "but it's snowing here, there is the ocean and the sea, oh I did not know that 'There were cities,old historical cities, houses, cars, I thought that people move in camels and live in aunts I really thought that Morocco was sahara desert I never knew there were different landscapes and weather "" oo peoples do not look alike , they are not all Muslims but also Jewish besides they do not kill each other astonishing " during all the holidays I was entitled to this kind of comments...

    • @arghunqon3774
      @arghunqon3774 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Anton EightBall cleopatra is greek

    • @fckstreetshitters4294
      @fckstreetshitters4294 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nadine Zacharya do ur belly dance

  • @CassandraBankson
    @CassandraBankson 6 ปีที่แล้ว +725

    *Thank you for helping bring this to light! This has a very real impact on arabs, muslims, other stereotyped groups, and those who lived with false ideas or pretenses surrounding them.*

    • @Lolee56
      @Lolee56 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Cassandra Bankson I’m a big fan of ur channel Cassandra!! And as a white European Muslim I agree. And Arabs can be Christian there not all Muslim and ANYONE can be a Muslim just like ANYONE can be a Christian :)

    • @River-cm9tz
      @River-cm9tz 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ayyyyyyy ma gurrrrll

    • @1reasonwhy620
      @1reasonwhy620 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cassandra Bankson Bee movie show false infomation of White People

    • @Asdfghjkl-us5jr
      @Asdfghjkl-us5jr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Literally EVERY group in the entire world is stereotyped you dummy. No need to feel special.

    • @brownasiankid1782
      @brownasiankid1782 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @tubester you realize jews are worlds most hateful people? They hate africans, Arabs,Muslims, everyone! Have you met a askenazi jewish family??

  • @jjasmineluv
    @jjasmineluv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    When I was younger I thought alladin was a hindu movie so did everyone in my class to.

    • @riymshazaly1402
      @riymshazaly1402 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lol oh my god so I'm not the only one

    • @gyhj368fj
      @gyhj368fj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      😑 alladin has nothing to do with India or indian culture...

    • @oussamachalbi8092
      @oussamachalbi8092 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Lol im arabic ant i thought thst too😂😂

    • @izzyreneau5702
      @izzyreneau5702 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      oussama chalbi wow lol, shows how much general knowledge people have these days.

    • @smileyShiiZniTZ
      @smileyShiiZniTZ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well the original story is set in china not Arabia or India.

  • @SS-rk7bu
    @SS-rk7bu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I am here because the title about Arabs. I actually never watched the whole video to be honest but not gonna say more things only I would like to say:
    I'm proud of being Arab and Muslim
    and peace to the world

    • @SS-rk7bu
      @SS-rk7bu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Jack Jack
      How can I harm people with my Arabic identity Mr. Jack?
      Being proud of what you born to be doesn’t mean you have to despise others

    • @vex2877
      @vex2877 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Jack Jack wtf is wrong with you?

  • @tikosaha3272
    @tikosaha3272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    this doesn't only affect Muslims or arabs, this affects mena minorities aswell, like armenians, assyrians, persians, etc. this vid is great, thank you for talking abt this.

    • @fatima-zahraachbah4938
      @fatima-zahraachbah4938 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Yes! People always associate Muslims with Arabic people. Well, there is a whole bunch of other countries mispresented.

    • @hery011490
      @hery011490 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He did say that

    • @ihl0700677525
      @ihl0700677525 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Come on, we have wild west and medieval fantasy too. I don't understand why some people are butthurt toward this.
      We all know it's just dramatization for the sake of entertainment.

    • @tikosaha3272
      @tikosaha3272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      We have literally been part of the middle east forever. Even if you consider the Caucasus separate from the middle east, an opinion I disagree with, but can respect) Armenians still have communities all over middle east. Armenian Americans also face anti-middle east discrimination. Like profiling at airports, and having to deal with trumps Muslim ban (even though trump said it won't affect Christians, parskehay and beirutsi Armenians were still deported for no reason). From my experience of living the US I've personally had to deal with discrimination for being armenian.

    • @tikosaha3272
      @tikosaha3272 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      if that's how you feel nothing I say can change that, but I still disagree because the protagonist in all those wild west movies is white so that person being white has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Also having tech be placed in the wrong decade is different then blending all the cultures in half of asia together. Bu me saying this will ultimatly change nothing because what are the chances someone changes their opinions because of an argument in the youtube comments section

  • @hassaantauseef5426
    @hassaantauseef5426 6 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    I remember, one day, Homeland was on the television and I watched the whole episode and didn't realise that it was supposed to be my city until later mentioned. Point being, it is nothing how we are. It wasn't shot here, most of the actors were Arabs while Pakistanis are South Asians and it was nothing how my city is. It was shot in a deserted place while Ilsmabad is a forest city on the border of the Himalayas.

    • @infinity-gn9xq
      @infinity-gn9xq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Hassaan Tauseef have u seen Avengers?? Wen natasha romanoff goes to find dr. Banner in Kolkata.. The city is shown with military tanks with terrorist with guns nd super poor nd diseased people... I live in kolkata.. They show a war torn city instead of a real kolkata..which is a peaceful metropolitan city... Nd they even put hindi dialogues.. People in kolkata speak Bengali.. Not hindi.. I hate it.

    • @Motofanable
      @Motofanable 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i feel you pain, such think could even happened to my homecity/country

    • @infinity-gn9xq
      @infinity-gn9xq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      David Pusnik it's not pain.. It's disgust that how little importance the writers give to all this.. Just create a fake city.. Why give people wrong notions about real places..

    • @IqraKhan-vc7lo
      @IqraKhan-vc7lo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wait...Islamabad isnt on the border of the himalays. That's gilgit... but nonetheless I agree

    • @hassanalkhalaf1115
      @hassanalkhalaf1115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Homeland in general is the most racist show

  • @NativeVsColonial
    @NativeVsColonial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    8:00 I don't know what this footage has to do with Arabs, these are clearly showing Hindu wedding and people celebrating Holi.

  • @ave-7902
    @ave-7902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    they always excuse it by saying we give your culture a representation. no honey, you're not, in fact, you don't even know our culture.

  • @fahima2409
    @fahima2409 6 ปีที่แล้ว +564

    Arab and proud

    • @kivsa85
      @kivsa85 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      And?

    • @KingdomofArabia
      @KingdomofArabia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      LOL
      love the four triggered comments by this simple comment

    • @legitimist1357
      @legitimist1357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      These are some of the most racist comments I have ever seen.

    • @polybian_bicycle
      @polybian_bicycle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@legitimist1357
      You must have just started using the Internet then.

    • @legitimist1357
      @legitimist1357 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@polybian_bicycle True lmao

  • @Ideophagous
    @Ideophagous 6 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    Arab here, Arab there, Arab this, Arab that... one of the most misused terms in history, referring to a large number of populations in North Africa and the Middle East, with different ethnic origins, different histories, different ancestral languages (some of which still spoken today), different dialects, etc, as if they were the same people who somehow poured out of the desert of Arabia in the 7th century and drove everyone else into the sea. FACT: they didn't. Only the populations of the Arabian peninsula, Jordan, and possibly South Iraq and South Syria, are predominantly of Arab origin. Edward Said himself is descended from Phoenicians and Canaanites, not Arabs. A sad little lie that has been perpetuated by media.
    By the same logic, most of "Latin America" should be called "Spanish". A Brazilian should be called "Portuguese". A Quebecois or Senegalese should called "French". But instead we have terms like "Hispanic", "Lusophone", and "Francophone", to indicate that the link is linguistic and cultural, rather than ethnic or genetic. We should have a similar term "Arabophone" or "Arabaic" or such to indicate the same thing for many countries and populations in North Africa and the Middle East.

    • @winxclubstellamusa
      @winxclubstellamusa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Theophagous An excellent comment ! Thank you so much for sharing. As a recent Egyptian immigrant to the US of Greco-Roman decent I was always in the minority that still knows that there is a difference between the near east (Mediterranean region ) vs the Middle East (the Arabian peninsula) in terms of history, food, ethnicity, race, language, etc... I am not and have never been “Arab” or “middle Eastern” and it actually offended me in Egypt and still offends me now when Americans describe me as such, even if their intentions were otherwise. The history of the Mediterranean is great, ancient, and glorious! The actual cradle of human civilization! The Middle East has its own history with its own moments of glory as well. However, the people and identity are NOT the same. Once again, thank you.

    • @Ideophagous
      @Ideophagous 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The most frustrating thing is how the Arabized people of North Africa and the Near East would fight you tooth and nail, when you point out that they are genetically non-Arabs, as proven by numerous scientific studies.

    • @sheshenq
      @sheshenq 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Theophagous I'm North African, I don't for sure know if I'm 100% Arabic, but I might not be. Since my great grandfather spoke Italian only, and my great grandmother was of Amazigh descent. But since we have been Arabized, I'd just go with it. I usually refer myself as North African or Mediterranean, but sometimes Arabian.

    • @Ame-lt1oe
      @Ame-lt1oe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Theophagous how can you assume you know the origins of this and that region? You should check with people who actually DNA tested before talking.

    • @Ame-lt1oe
      @Ame-lt1oe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      winxclubstellamusa what do you make of the native Egyptians? You're also one of them ,you're mixed, accept it

  • @Hassan-cy6tt
    @Hassan-cy6tt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    We have biggest mall and biggest building and lambo police cars aren’t we exotic 😂😎

    • @The0Mage0Ops
      @The0Mage0Ops 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maya Skars ان شاء الله بكرة راح يكون عندنا صناعات وتطور وترى دول الخليج توها في البدايات ما كملو ٨٠ سنة يكون بعلمك وبكرة لو شاء ربي راح نكون بلدان صناعية ان شاء الله والنفط هو رزق من الله واحنا نصدره لكن فنزويلا عندها نفط اكثر مننا ولكن ما تقدر تصدره بسبب الفساد فهاذي نقطة تحسب لنا لانه النفط بدون رجال تستخلصه وتصدره ما يطلع لحاله.. والله الرازق

    • @mylifeismiserableandsoami953
      @mylifeismiserableandsoami953 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jellyfishi_ why tf would we not be proud of being arabs? You're racist

    • @Redemptions_
      @Redemptions_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi, welcome to JinHub. Probably he American and America land has been stolen 3 times and yeah America is a fake country

  • @IrresistibleWitch
    @IrresistibleWitch 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Exotic is relative. Im Native American and Ive been called exotic. Orientalism is what White Men (west) do and how they feel about the Middle East, they do this to all others too. Everybody else is less than. That way they can justify their behavior towards everybody else.

    • @cubancucumber
      @cubancucumber 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      17 Days you know that not all white people are like that. Just because there are a few doesn’t mean the whole race.

  • @somayahsalem493
    @somayahsalem493 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    نحن العرب والمسلمين لدينا الكثير في حضارتنا لنريه للعالم ولكن الإعلام الغربي يتعمد تشويه صورة الإسلام والعرب

    • @user-su6nx9du7w
      @user-su6nx9du7w 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sumaya ُ الإسلام دين والعربية قومية فقط معلومة

    • @juwairiyaumar7761
      @juwairiyaumar7761 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sumaya ُ
      مش كلهم بس كتير منهم.. بس مثلا نيكي ميناج بتبين دائما انها بتحب المسلمين/المسلمات و هيك.. ف.. مو كلهم هيك بس بالإعلام.. كتير منهم اكيد

    • @K3bReet
      @K3bReet 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      sumaya ُ كل زق

  • @Cspgirl
    @Cspgirl 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    "mOaZlImZz"

    • @sohaylaemad6869
      @sohaylaemad6869 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      😂😂 why can't they say it muslims 😂

    • @abdullahodiebat8931
      @abdullahodiebat8931 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      MOZZLEMA RAWANA

    • @buzzlightyear1010
      @buzzlightyear1010 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      it’s literally so easy to pronounce “moo-sss-lim

    • @Cspgirl
      @Cspgirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Abdullah Odiebat huh😂

    • @Cspgirl
      @Cspgirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ranya angels fr

  • @mcscatcat
    @mcscatcat ปีที่แล้ว +4

    bro who dislikes a video likes this. "no i think i will stick to stereotypes thank you"

  • @hamzahkreishan5395
    @hamzahkreishan5395 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    It’s weird that I live in the “Arab world “ and I am watching this ??

  • @jwyz26
    @jwyz26 6 ปีที่แล้ว +812

    1:28 but Aladdin is literally going along with the Arabian story from centuries ago (One thousand and One Nights)??? I’m Arab and I don’t get where this dude is going with this.. smh

    • @positive2772
      @positive2772 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      kim taeyeon it's true in islam it says that all of theese years i don't know exactly how many but i think like 3000 years ago is when it happened. All of theese years in islam it says that for Allah it has been only 1 day for him.

    • @majedalenezi3358
      @majedalenezi3358 6 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      kim taeyeon
      One thousand and one nights was written by a westren guy and it is a fiction stories , so expect shit

    • @yazmindiram7247
      @yazmindiram7247 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      LOL same im Arab , this is the most irrelevant video i have ever seen. i guessing u like kpop aswell XD

    • @sumsar01
      @sumsar01 6 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Arabian Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales collected during the "Islamic golden age". So it's not written by a western guy.

    • @Whoknows2034
      @Whoknows2034 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Isn’t Aladdin a Chinese Muslim why did they all of a sudden have a Arab theme to it🤔🧐

  • @backgroundcharacter2615
    @backgroundcharacter2615 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I travel a lot. A lot of places I’ve been have Arab and Muslim populations. I know it’s surprising because the West would stop making money if they portrayed people they’ve never seen as exotic but they’re just normal people who live different from us.

  • @Fuchsiababe
    @Fuchsiababe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I thought exotic meant foreign...

  • @adamshahab3534
    @adamshahab3534 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    i'm muslim and i do not care. come on, there are real problems to complain about instead

  • @taraa4281
    @taraa4281 6 ปีที่แล้ว +253

    I am a Canadian born persian, I am NOT arab and I am NOT muslim but orientalism effects me just as much. remember that the western world sees us as all the same and it is up to us to bring awareness of everyone's humanity.
    In the middle east non-muslims tend to be persecuted while in predominantly christian geographic areas muslims and hindus are persecuted. Violence and prejudice is not determined by actually identity but rather by who is simply the majority in power.
    we should all be advocating for true secular governments and an actual separation of "church and state"

    • @taraa4281
      @taraa4281 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      oh my gosh haha no :'), you should be aware enough to understand that the fact is in the eyes of the "white west majority" we are all just immigrants. and even me as someone with an Iranian background who is neither muslim nor arab is lumped in the the "arab world" isnt that enough proof that my statement holds true? please try to educate yourself xx

    • @taraa4281
      @taraa4281 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      in many areas yes but the high levels of warfair (perpetuated by the west) is the cause of a lack of progress/ regression. what you say is silly. by your comment do you mean we should continue being prejudice? because if so then your simply pushing more isolated people into the hands of terrorist groups and causing more unrest in the middle east.
      what I say holds true, we need to remind each other of our humanity

    • @heyayup
      @heyayup 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Persian here too

    • @heyayup
      @heyayup 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jihad Al-Maliki why are middle eastern people so obsessed with having a religion? Most persians in the west aren't religious because of what happened in the past

    • @zeffery101
      @zeffery101 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Its funny. I think orientalism has a positive effect for me as a pakistani muslim in America. I have many friends from Muslim countries and my first instinct is that they are my brothers or sisters even after they tell me they are agnostic, zoroastrian, or chirstian. One my best friend is a christian Palestinian. I think the grouping of the "Muslim World" has brought me closer to all people from many regions. I think its the fact that my familiy lost a lot of Pakistani culture and I consider myself only American.

  • @DiamanteDea
    @DiamanteDea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Jasmine isn't Muslim but she's arab

    • @sexcorpio6976
      @sexcorpio6976 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which Jasmíne? The one in Aladin?

  • @ModernHomeZAREEN
    @ModernHomeZAREEN 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you for talking about this topic this video has a great amount of information and vocabulary that will help me to be brave to participate in serious conversations in the future .✨

    • @mala967
      @mala967 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      my dear this is very well wrong in simpler words so plz dont start a converstation about it

  • @miringigalagtikoselpenomin511
    @miringigalagtikoselpenomin511 6 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    I'am Muslim and proud to be so
    Who is like me ❤❤❤

    • @cashflagg9728
      @cashflagg9728 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      mīrīٍñgī gälägŤīĶoṩ ễl pħễٍñomīٍño
      Why does every other paragraph of the Koran say I belong in the flame for not being a Muslim? Cuz I recently purchased the book, and I find it's attitude towards non-Muslims to be extraordinarily bigoted and indefensible.

    • @miringigalagtikoselpenomin511
      @miringigalagtikoselpenomin511 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      EnK Ryzov thanks for your reply
      But ,my english language is weak and i use the translate but i didn't find the correct translate for your question . i understand your question but i can't answer you 💐💐
      I'm sorry
      Find someone else

    • @beentrill8492
      @beentrill8492 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mīrīٍñgī gälägŤīĶoṩ ễl pħễٍñomīٍño I am

    • @torrentialrage
      @torrentialrage 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      mīrīٍñgī gälägŤīĶoṩ ễl pħễٍñomīٍño I'm not muslim but I like to pretend to be on the internet.

    • @Cokaine_d
      @Cokaine_d 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      mīrīٍñgī gälägŤīĶoṩ ễl pħễٍñomīٍño I am a proud kafir !❤❤❤

  • @khadijamamouni5976
    @khadijamamouni5976 6 ปีที่แล้ว +227

    We are exotic and it's not an insult.

    • @arkham1329
      @arkham1329 6 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      If you were that exotic you wouldn't be on your PC typing a comment in English

    • @gabrielchris5163
      @gabrielchris5163 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Khadija Mamouni you are a living proof just like Edward Said said you are embracing your stereotype that the others had put for you

    • @cattycatx3501
      @cattycatx3501 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      yes it is as an arab i don't want to be called thats can i just be human a normal arab girl why do i have to be "exotic" like were some weird alien tribe or something

    • @TheAliisawesome
      @TheAliisawesome 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Akram Mohammed Exoticism isn't the same as underdeveloped lol.

    • @shahn.3981
      @shahn.3981 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      yeah, kind of agree. I’ve got no problem being exotic. Better than being just anyone else, right?

  • @jakegargiulo5101
    @jakegargiulo5101 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As a child I always thought Aladdin was based in India because of the shape of the palace and how Jasmine looks.

  • @mightguy6222
    @mightguy6222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    they think our muslim sisters wear blankets every where

  • @nightcrow2759
    @nightcrow2759 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I am arab and believe me we dont care😂 Stop trying to be a hero over something so stupid. Stop being offended for people.

  • @RnBCutz
    @RnBCutz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +264

    Aladdin's Lamp actually promotes Black Magic because it uses a Genie (Jin). This is a major sin in Islam.

    • @fisebilillah4406
      @fisebilillah4406 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      RnBCutz Right.

    • @bubblebeebartend
      @bubblebeebartend 6 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      Sir Dios Basado he's not complaining about the video. he's pointing out the fact that a fictional universe uses black magic, which muslims don't find particularly moral, as a representation for the very culture the movie is trying to portray.

    • @ms.rstake_1211
      @ms.rstake_1211 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol

    • @shahnawazahmad699
      @shahnawazahmad699 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly.

    • @RnBCutz
      @RnBCutz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Compa Heart Not surprised because Disney is runned by Zionists, the fake Jews. In fact all of Hollywood and America is controlled through zionism

  • @gurocsea6301
    @gurocsea6301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    One word Russians It's like an every movie and game It's Russians and Arabs

  • @TheOriginalScorpioBelle
    @TheOriginalScorpioBelle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you, I appreciate the knowledge.

  • @MajnouniWahad
    @MajnouniWahad 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I don't get it. I don't see what's wrong with camels and burkas. Orientalist paintings showed the diversity of the Arabs and the beauty of our culture?? WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE!??!

    • @edwinweztman7302
      @edwinweztman7302 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MajnouniWahad Burka is not a culture lol its women’s oppression.

    • @karimb972
      @karimb972 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @PickleNick most ignorant comment on this thread, bravo!

  • @camilorico5361
    @camilorico5361 6 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    The same happens to Latin America . “Ándale ! Ándale !”

    • @hermmendez
      @hermmendez 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      México is a desert, full of towns with decaying wooden building and bars, unpaved streets and plenty of steel brawls happening all over...
      ...oh American media...
      Aaand for some reason everything is reddish looking

    • @akinoz
      @akinoz 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      hermmendez omg same description from bunch of movie.

  • @kookeekaa
    @kookeekaa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We arabs really find it funny when they think we're so rich.

  • @adoberoots
    @adoberoots 5 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    I think Slavic culture is very exoticized in a similar fashion in the West and it'd be super interesting to see a video about that as well.

    • @karaqakkzl
      @karaqakkzl ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fear of Russia make them scared to make about it

    • @dragamarijanovski8755
      @dragamarijanovski8755 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I agree. Me as a Slavic living in Italy I experience on daily basis questions am I from particular Slavic Eastern European country? But me as a Slavic visiting Lebanon, they thought that I am Lebanese! Such an enlightenment!

    • @dimetronome
      @dimetronome ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That’s a valid point. There is a long history of portraying the Slavic world as simultaneously exotic and threatening, in much the same way as the Orient. Russia specifically was perceived by Western Europeans/Americans as a dangerous mix of Occidental and Oriental culture because it straddles both Europe and Asia.

    • @ahmadnaser8172
      @ahmadnaser8172 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dimetronome a normal republican american might think middle east and russia are planning to destroy the west together

  • @comochinganconesto
    @comochinganconesto 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Pretty much any Latin American bruh, welcome to the club :D

  • @stanstantalent.5605
    @stanstantalent.5605 6 ปีที่แล้ว +595

    Good Lord, I remember homeland. Such a terrible depiction.

    • @produstaaaa
      @produstaaaa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Gimme Rice is it really inaccurate? Name another terrorist ideology/ethnicity?

    • @jooCrusher
      @jooCrusher 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sway haha I know if I where daisy dukes and a gay pride shirt pretty much anywhere in the Middle East I will have rocks thrown at me until I’m dead. We are supposed to feel guilty about accurately portraying reality. And the “victims” of this portrayal wouldn’t hesitate to murder minority groups in their countries.

    • @produstaaaa
      @produstaaaa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      rose novel don't be disingenuous. I'm talking globally(or even just in western world) not nationally. What ideology terrorizes as much as muslims in the western world?

    • @yesguguiiiy5723
      @yesguguiiiy5723 6 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Eric ummmm.... which major religion allows gays??? Stop pretending asif it’s only Muslims. Christians Jews Indians all of these religions don’t support gays

    • @abubakarnaveed8819
      @abubakarnaveed8819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Sway kkk

  • @flip1980ful
    @flip1980ful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great stuff! Im glad you bring this up.

  • @ShyRonnie13
    @ShyRonnie13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The worst part in Alladin is when Jasmine take a apple for the kids and the merchant says he's gonna cut off her hand because she's a thief like there's no justice system in medieval Arab world. You just know some guy at the Disney studio said I heard arabs cut thief's hands we should definitely put that in the movie .

  • @MrMEST
    @MrMEST 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It will take for us, Arabs and Muslims, to actually focus more on getting ourselves out of the neck-deep swamp we're in, than on how the other people only see our muddied bodies and forget about our beautiful faces.
    We need to push for a better scientific research in the region, to revamp our educational systems, to build a new and solid economy, to re-establish a just and faire rule of law...etc.
    Only when we'd have tremendously contributed once agaon to humanity with millions of articles and hundreds of textbooks and so on that the good image we'd give will trump over this stained representation.
    Till then anyway, I'm not against condemning and trying to correct this misconception...

  • @Mona-xw8nm
    @Mona-xw8nm 6 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    That's good can you make please history about north Africa video greeting from Algeria you are doing good and yourself!!☺

    • @Mona-xw8nm
      @Mona-xw8nm 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      SC Android Kit Cat marhba bik hehe tjrs DZ kaynin LOL

    • @yesmynguettouche
      @yesmynguettouche 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't think that a lot of people tried to stereotype us because u know they think we're Arabs 😂

    • @ILoveYou-bv7mf
      @ILoveYou-bv7mf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Rapline said 땡 to all BTS haters & dat's da tea
      Yayy, DZ w A.R.M.Y !! 😍😚

    • @ILoveYou-bv7mf
      @ILoveYou-bv7mf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      my chemical bangtan piløts
      Cause we are Arabs lmai

    • @mey4192
      @mey4192 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      we're not arabs but Amazigh, still we have some arab people between us
      People think we're the best arabs because our mentality is way better and open, and our islam is the best (not severe like in Saudi arabia), and that's how amazigh were since they came to earth more than 4000 years ago, ope and civilized

  • @anitamaria8779
    @anitamaria8779 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I liked this critical video and you mentioning Edward Said's work.But you were often saying "Arabs and Muslims" even though some examples shown were linked to the Indian subcontinent and Hindu traditions. This might be a bit picky of me but if you're talking about the exotic portrayal of "Arabs and Muslims" you should leave out these type of examples. Otherwise we could assume that you also are generalising.

  • @toasted_donut2308
    @toasted_donut2308 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The live action aladdin was basically a bollywood movie from the clothes, dancing and actors.

  • @isaacmontgomery9406
    @isaacmontgomery9406 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I took a college course on Orientalism in America, and this video perfectly sums up so many of the Orientalist tropes that my class talked about all the time. We even discussed Cardi B's and Taylor Swift's music videos, Aladdin, Zero Dark Thirty, 300, Prince of Persia, and American Sniper.

    • @TheMilitantMazdakite
      @TheMilitantMazdakite ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a Zoroastrian, thanks for calling our 300. Iranshar before Islam was the greatest civilization the world had ever seen, for they followed the truth, and they knew that men and women were equal, and islam ruined it in every way. Let us finish the job that Babak Khorradimin started!

    • @baburkhanmansurkhanov266
      @baburkhanmansurkhanov266 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheMilitantMazdakite Of course. Zoroastrianism is a dead faith

    • @TheMilitantMazdakite
      @TheMilitantMazdakite ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@baburkhanmansurkhanov266 No, Zoroastrianism is Immortal. You can't kill the truth.

    • @baburkhanmansurkhanov266
      @baburkhanmansurkhanov266 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheMilitantMazdakite The truth is that most Zoroastrians converted to Islam

  • @callalilly4743
    @callalilly4743 6 ปีที่แล้ว +211

    So many thumbs down for truth telling.

    • @lastking7427
      @lastking7427 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ticheri180 media wash they mind

    • @tianaal5277
      @tianaal5277 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      truth telling? yeah right. those bastard are trying to make the muslim world look bad, as if media hasn't done enough.

    • @TheTokkie
      @TheTokkie 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      WOKE AF

    • @ryanhugh25
      @ryanhugh25 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The truth exotic anything that differ from your own culture so every culture has self determinations of other cultures or race. Also what they see becomes their representation when they are not around that particular culture, race, ethnicity, or fate. Also appropriation is natural accurance in societies of multiculturalism. Not just Cardi B but Beyonce was criticize from appropriating Indian culture with her music video while in the same video a indian boy was break dancing. So yeah. Not Oriental is diagotary to certain region. You a lot Asian not around American more around British will use oriental as east Asian. Orient's was original use something from east something exotic and beautiful but a lot insecure people use it as way to down play the people and lift up his own people. For the part of this video where harp on how the culture depicts other culture the Romans did this a lot. This where this truth is that the Victor's writes the history. One because they do and usually down paly the other culture lift up their own. Common offense by many cultures including eastern. Through this primarily a western society and US and Western Europe are wealthy you more easily notice their flaws. Everyone should keep in my the grass isn't always greener on the otherside. So take deep look at all cultures

    • @filonin2
      @filonin2 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Ticheri180 I'm sorry that you don't know what words mean.

  • @fqeiz_4455
    @fqeiz_4455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Nobody :
    American : *_"THIS IS AMERICA "_*

  • @rushikeshdongare4523
    @rushikeshdongare4523 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    As an Indian I think the song by coldplay was cool and show old culture of India

    • @arabbithole5382
      @arabbithole5382 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Remember india was actually influenced by aryans and aryans were arab ( iranian)

  • @vanessahurst6916
    @vanessahurst6916 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Shocked that they didn’t mention Lady Gaga’s song Aura (Burqa) (produced by ZEDD) which was meant to be the lead single of ARTPOP.
    It had lines such as “Do you wanna see me naked lover? do you wanna peak underneath the cover? Do you wanna see the girl who lives behind the curtain, behind the Burqa?”
    She pushes this outdated image of Muslims.
    And although she ‘claims’ to be pushing a powerful image of Muslim women, she sings verses which show her ignorance towards the Islamic faith.
    These outlandish images really do haunt us and make our society become labelled as barbaric fools who lust over females and use fear to maintain dominance.
    The Arab and Islamic world is so much more better than what they make it seem in terms of identity and culture.

    • @kanejarrett1671
      @kanejarrett1671 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Islamic world is so much better? Really? Where it's punishable by death to by gay? Or an atheist? Or to draw the wrong Prophet? People have a barbaric perception of Islam because the scripture and practices are inherently barbaric.
      Exhibit a: Public beheadings
      Exhibit b: Being thrown from a sky scraper is another form of execution
      Exhibit c: theft is punishable by amputation
      Exhibit d: a woman's opinion is worth half that of a man in Islam
      Exhibit e: for a woman to report a rape under Sharia Law, they must have 4 male witnesses
      I could go through to Z ten times over but I'm sure you get the point.

    • @nada659
      @nada659 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Harmless House blame muslims not islam. I used to believe in the sharia law, but then i started disagreeing with certain things, then more things and more till i came to the conclusion that the whole sharia law is stupid. Then i started reading more into it and I decided i should apostatize islam and read more about religions and atheism. I'm still not completely muslim or completely atheist, but after reading some books everything is much much clearer to me and islam is indeed viewed wrongly not only by non muslims, but Arab religious muslims as well.

    • @nada659
      @nada659 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you want to learn more about how all hadiths are fabricated and fake i found a TH-cam video that sums up everything. But idk if the subject doesn't really interests you (why would it even) then that's alright

    • @kanejarrett1671
      @kanejarrett1671 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      j2 lover it doesn't really mean much to say the haddith is fabricated since all religious texts are undoubtedly fabrications. Speaking in metaphors (through Religion) has done unimaginable to the world and humanity. Logic and reason should be the universal religion.

    • @nada659
      @nada659 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Harmless House no I'm not saying that all religions aren't fabricated, I'm saying that if we're ever gonna judge islam, we should only judge the non fabricated (according to history and logic) part of it. U get me? Like just judge the actual (supposedly) word of god..

  • @SaraBendjafar
    @SaraBendjafar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    i remember being 8-9 years old and my siblings would stay up to watch American TV shows. on summer days, i stayed up with them sometimes as they would watch 24 and i swear if i hadn't heard them talk about how that show misinterprets Islam, i probably would've thought all terrorists irl were Arabs/Muslims.
    over the course of my life, i've seen the Middle Eastern culture (which isn't exactly my culture, as i'm North African, but i can still relate to it) being oversimplified and having all these stereotypes kind of attributed to it, with seemingly no one really trying to change that. and it made me wonder: are these huge film producers and artists actually ignorant when it comes to this specific topic, or are we so marginalised that they reappropriate our culture on purpose?
    to clarify, i don't think it's wrong for a tourist to try on traditional clothing and take a picture riding a camel (bc *i* wanna see a camel if i ever visit the desert, it's cool) but when you got Western people treating Hidjab and Mosques like an exotic concept and portraying these things in music videos, and there's a bunch of people commenting "aesthetic" or "mood".. like?? yea, i'm in the /mood/ to be a rich, uncivilised Arab today.
    perhaps the worst case i've seen (in mainstream, at least) was a drama series produced by the Korean channel, MBC, last year. and i don't remember the name, but that shit was deadass provocative.

    • @Palestine4Ever169
      @Palestine4Ever169 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      صارة B. Can you gave me the korean series name ?

    • @taki1255
      @taki1255 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes when you remember please tell 🤗

    • @MiKi-sx3tt
      @MiKi-sx3tt 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the drama title is "The Man Who Dies to Live"..

  • @Dorothi1267
    @Dorothi1267 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Guys I'm arab and no we don't ride camels and we don't live in tents. We wear normal cloth and live in normal houses and have cars👍👍

  • @updated9918
    @updated9918 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    لم أفهم شيء الا يمكن أن تضعون ترجمة.

  • @WateverWatever04
    @WateverWatever04 6 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I NEEDED YOU
    COULDA USED THIS FOR MY ESSAY A COUPLE WEEKS AGO
    😅

  • @arabbithole5382
    @arabbithole5382 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Aladdin showcases the story before islam in Arab! At that time girls not wearing hijab or men wearing jewellery was common

  • @moathdw910
    @moathdw910 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Please don't mix Arabs and Muslims!, I am an Arab but I am an athiest.

    • @cedric4317
      @cedric4317 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Moath Dh and i am an arab and a christian

    • @abdullahalbraiky5956
      @abdullahalbraiky5956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      not denying the existence of non muslim arabs but the overwhelming majority of arabs are Muslim, and also this hate is primarily directed towards Muslim arabs so if you get offended that this video didn't mention athiest arabs you need to check yourself for your inherent hate towards Muslims that you do not want to associate with us. this video wasn't about religious diversity in the arab world it talks about arab and or Muslim people as a whole which explains why they included south Asia and Africa in the video

    • @serine6174
      @serine6174 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@abdullahalbraiky5956 majority of arabs are muslims , majority of muslims ARE NOT arabs

  • @doppelkammertoaster
    @doppelkammertoaster 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    You have the same stereotypes about Germans in American movies, or French woman, Spanish dancers, Japanese older wise man etc. All of those are wrong too.

    • @abdallaahmed780
      @abdallaahmed780 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      they're not negative or hurtful though

    • @Mahaodeh
      @Mahaodeh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes, they are. All stereotypes are wrong. Stereotypes provide a one-dimensional, shallow, limited, and inaccurate portrayal at best, and can be very insulting and hurtful, not to mention that consistent negative portrayals affects how the people being portrayed are viewed and consequently treated. It leads to hatred; which is the point I guess. You see, once you dehumanise and alienate a people, it becomes easier to convince your population to kill them using drones!
      Also, for the people you have mentioned, the portrayals are not that negative even for the Germans. They are also not portrayed as inherently bad and impossible to change. Moreover, you have as much positive and balanced portrayals as you have stereotypes if not more. Germans, French, Spanish or Japanese people are not portrayed as the 'other'. At some point (during and just after WWII) Germans and Japanese may have been portrayed negatively, but no longer. The same can be said about Russians. The French and Spanish are portrayed positively despite some stereotyping in some cases. The same can not be said about Arabs.

    • @abdallaahmed780
      @abdallaahmed780 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mahaodeh well said

    • @shahid7443
      @shahid7443 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ya ...like if u r from china then u must be a secret KungFu master

  • @pillsburydopeboy3962
    @pillsburydopeboy3962 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I never connected Muslim people with Aladdin 😑

  • @polly10022
    @polly10022 6 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    First of all I'm Arab and it's not THAT off? We have deserts and camels and markets that are placed outside where we sell vegetables, etc. (We have supermarkets too of course). We have our dance, music, food and the list goes on. I recognize arabs across the North African and middle eastern regions are completely different but we are similar. I'm not offended. I love being Arab!

    • @shamsbashir
      @shamsbashir 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      polly10022
      Thats not what he is saying. The problems is arabs arent being portraid good enough. Its been one sided for too long and thats actually having very negative effects on arabs living abroad. Its time for change

    • @sarahkontar7231
      @sarahkontar7231 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      polly10022 well not me I’m Lebanese 😂😂

    • @sarahkontar7231
      @sarahkontar7231 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      polly10022 every thing is true except the desert

    • @shamsbashir
      @shamsbashir 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sarah Kontar
      🙄🙄

    • @youssefsaad9277
      @youssefsaad9277 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      deja vu. Is that how u use it?

  • @7delicate7
    @7delicate7 6 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Great topic. In my opinion , I do agree on that and I think this is happening on purpose. Its not only Americans but also other countries around the world. They fell for the stereotypes all though in every religion and culture there is pros and cons in it. Arabs and Muslims have great History but unfortunately this has been not highlighted especially in the west. Thus they are represented in a savage and pathetic way. On the other hand, I think Arabs and Muslims especially the ones who are born and raised in the west aren’t that proud to speak about their origins. And aren’t raised with love to their hometown and doesn’t know much about it. which is really sad and bothers me so much. Instead they are effected with false thoughts and behavior towards it. Based on personal experience. i have faced many arabs living in the west or westerners on FB , Twitter and instagram where when we have a debate they start accusing me on being oppressed by my cultural and that I am illiterate when our opinions disagree. Lol pathetic !

    • @perish6111
      @perish6111 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Farah AL You know you bring up a brilliant point, I had to go to japan for a year, as a year abroad at university and I will not lie, Japanese people think lowly of Muslim Brown folks, because they too consume American mass media, movies like American snipper which dehumanizes and shows the murder of innocent brown Muslims as heroic, and 'oh look at the traumatised 30 something white man :(((' , that movie was released in Japan, people went to watch it, and there isn't a lot of Muslims in Japan so the only exposure they have to, well Muslims, is this openly racist media that American pumps out. pretty toxic if you ask me

    • @perish6111
      @perish6111 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Farah AL this is why accurate representation and diverity should be celebrated, for example, Marvel have annocuned that they are thinking of producing a movie about Ms. Marvel, who is a Pakistani Muslim girl written by two muslim women, this narritive is going to show people that hey, brown muslim families pay their taxes and aren't as different as you are, which is the truth! just a normal family of 4

    • @perish6111
      @perish6111 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Farah AL Since so many people in the comments think Muslims are *inconvenient* let me tell you without Muslim scholars/philosophers/astronomers, European science wouldn't have prospered. Muslims aren't savages either, I think people forget that the 'understand, predict, test and find evidence' method in science was literally created by a Muslim, Iraqi, astronomer in the Islamic goden age of scinece, they made one of the very first telescopes and the telescopes that Gallelio looked through himself, created the concept of 0, allowing us to talk about 100's, 1000's millions, we are literally ordinary people who aspire the same things as anyone else, Read about Ibn al-Haytham, who pioneered the scientific method, he also spoke about gravity and forces that govern bodies 600 years before Newton was born, Read about Ibn Sina, and Ibn Khaldun - an Arab Muslim from Tunis who proposed the theory of evolution, in his own words before Darwin was even born. The 'Al' in Algebra, Alchemy, The Wright brothers used Abbas Ibn Firnas' writings, and findinds to build and desgin a plane!! go read about it. People forget how much the Qu'ran encourages and praises sciences and education aka "go all the way to china for an education" going from Arab to China was insane in the BC's and Qu'ran literally states "I've left evidence for people who want to find it" But no, we never see this in mass media

  • @user-vw4wy9vo7h
    @user-vw4wy9vo7h 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is there any chance that this video can be translated to arabic? Pleas?

  • @samhart4205
    @samhart4205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The worst example of Arab ethnicity erasure in the media/Hollywood was Naomi Scott (a white passing biracial Indian-white girl) was casted as Princess Jasmine. And that's not even mentioning the shit show that followed afterwards with Indians claiming that Princess Jasmine was an Indian character.

    • @DiamanteDea
      @DiamanteDea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ikr..🤦🤦

    • @samhart4205
      @samhart4205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DiamanteDea Thank goodness someone else noticed too.

  • @Abdul_Lahori
    @Abdul_Lahori 6 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    Everyone should read Edward Said's Orientalism!

    • @view1st
      @view1st 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      It's ironic that the man who coined the term 'orientalism' could credibly be described as an orientalist himself as he was thoroughly westernised and operating from within the very heart of the western academic institutions guilty of spreading orientalism in the first place, embodying thereby the paradox of the man who seemingly strives to emulate western societies while deriding the paradigms that sustain them.

    • @IchibotK
      @IchibotK 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      John Roberts well said. Just seems like another brand of victimization agenda.

    • @indirects868
      @indirects868 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ichibot K9869 Can you elaborate on what the victimisation agenda is?

    • @mplsridah
      @mplsridah 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      John Robers,
      Incredible sentence structure lol what books do you read bro?

  • @MissMoontree
    @MissMoontree 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    You know, none of this works if you grew up with a non-English version. The voices don't have the accent, the line I remember (was also changed but) was "If you steal they will pinch you in the arm, which hurts, but hey, it's nice here".

  • @pedramkhoddami6482
    @pedramkhoddami6482 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    And who are you different when you use Arab as all of middle East country's?Persian and Arabs have major different in culture

    • @thelivingdead1728
      @thelivingdead1728 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True, Persians are Indo-Europeans while Arabs are Semitic.

  • @tobiastranetellefsen4203
    @tobiastranetellefsen4203 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Ecxuse me if I'm wrong, but I think that most people are smart enough to understand that cartoons, pop culture, Hollywood movies etc. doesn't reflect the reality.

    • @mess9121
      @mess9121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Unfortunately, a lot of people don't get that yet.

    • @tobiastranetellefsen4203
      @tobiastranetellefsen4203 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@mess9121 That's sad, but when people have very limited sources of information it is easy to make stereotypes.

    • @mess9121
      @mess9121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@tobiastranetellefsen4203 A ton of those people do have access to information but still choose to stereotype regardless. At least from what I've seen.

    • @tobiastranetellefsen4203
      @tobiastranetellefsen4203 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mess9121 Many people find it fun to have stereotypes, even I must admit that it I like to have steryotypes. A good example of this is that I like to have stereotypes about people from Oslo wich is the capital in Norway because they tend to have sterotypes about us who lives outside the capital.

    • @mess9121
      @mess9121 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@tobiastranetellefsen4203 Absolutely man. I agree that it can be fun and can even be used as humor. The example you stated is fine, I can see where this comes from. But when people start being ignorant and close minded while choosing to stereotype is where I have a problem.

  • @monalisa8638
    @monalisa8638 6 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    literally any portrayal of latinos, aztecs or maya

    • @cashflagg9728
      @cashflagg9728 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Daniel Naranjo
      Sorry. Should we leave out the bits where the Aztecs waged "flower wars" to acquire sacrificial offerings for their gods? Are your feelings more important than history? More important than the victims of the Aztec Empire?

    • @monalisa8638
      @monalisa8638 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      EnK Ryzov
      dude. relax. you assume i'm annoyed with representations of Latinos, Aztecs, and Maya because of feelings or whatever, but that's not 100% true at all. for me, details like the existence of the flower wars and human sacrifice are important to take note of, but when we just look at that we fail to take in the full picture of what Aztec society was and in some ways still is. in general, things tend to be far more banal and or worse than we think, and this applies to entire cultures of people very often. take for example spartan culture at the time of the battle of thermopylae. movies like 300 portray them as badass warrior dudes with mofucking 64 packs, but the truth is that spartan men were soldiers to suppress an entire caste of slaves and they all had to buy their own armor to become soldiers. in all likelihood, some of them were also probably trying to fit beer bellies into that armor too. same goes for aztec society. they had flower wars and human sacrifices and all the rest of it, but they also liked to play a game that's really similar to our soccer where they can only hit the ball at specific joints in the body like elbows and knees. crops would be grown in the canals of tenochtitlan on these little rafts with dirt on them. et cetera.

    • @jaymore3201
      @jaymore3201 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Latinos and aztecs,mayans are two different things dumbass

    • @monalisa8638
      @monalisa8638 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jay More it's literally an example. singular.

    • @historicalperspective2149
      @historicalperspective2149 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Naranjo A stop it! I'm still waiting for The Road to Eldorado 2.

  • @dalilaabouelseoud
    @dalilaabouelseoud 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was just gonna say that as a kid when i watched Aladen I never thought that those were supposed to be us not even for a second

  • @slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404
    @slayerofcrusadersandsmallh6404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why so many dislikes

  • @johnspinelli9396
    @johnspinelli9396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dont rip on Alladin, it was still a great disney film

  • @17spyguy
    @17spyguy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I think it would have been good to show maybe an appropriate or acceptable form of media that involved Middle Eastern culture

    • @Artbug
      @Artbug 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Don't you get it? That doesn't exist... they will find fault with literally everything: This snake eats itself

    • @sheshenq
      @sheshenq 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Artbug it does. You're not reading enough books.

    • @alissaa2809
      @alissaa2809 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some Person why don't you tell us? I must be dumb, even though I read one book per week at least. So tell us dumb people :) it's easy to say "educate yourself" or "you don't read enough books" and than not comment further. What a simple comment. ANY person could have wrote it. people who read books or those who don't, judt to appear smart, without any proof. So show us your solution. Prove that you are smart. Let's have a debate

    • @richardlong6558
      @richardlong6558 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      What they mean is someone will always find something offensive. You could film an Arab celebration and people would still be offended about how they dress, how a certain one was ugly so "it must mean [insert company name] must think all of them are"... blah blah blah. It will never end because someone will always want attention and in this modern era you get attention by being a "victim" of something, no matter what it is.

  • @minahel5449
    @minahel5449 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love Aladdin but I always bothered me that they took all the cultures of the Middle East and South Asia and mushed them together.

  • @sarojpanday6236
    @sarojpanday6236 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Indians And nepalese hindus are different than arabs and persians in many respects,
    You must do some research before doing all these videos

    • @deathrowrecords6156
      @deathrowrecords6156 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hindustans Indeed have Same ancestors with the arabs and do have many similiarities with Persian thats why the Persian Language has some parts of Sanskrit in it

    • @krsn77540
      @krsn77540 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No the Indians have Persian words in their language

    • @deathrowrecords6156
      @deathrowrecords6156 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hafez Ahmadi No that was Not the Thing that i Wanted to Say i just wanted to Say that Borg cultures have their similiarities although there Different cultures which you Can see on their languages which have a background in each others ancestors You have to difference Sanskrit and Hindi its like to comparise a Roman Language and Latin which arent the Same

    • @TheReaper99919
      @TheReaper99919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      He never said they were. He said they get clumped together when orientalist views are being discussed by the west.

    • @mrmalkootlp6858
      @mrmalkootlp6858 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheReaper99919 true

  • @oooshafiqooo
    @oooshafiqooo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    8:49 isnt that is more towards indian?