Arabs in the Eyes of the American Media 1995, the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed. Total deaths in the attack was168. Few years after that, you were sitting in your living room watching TV and then breakout news on every channel announced the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Dozens are either injured or dead. People who were accused of both attacks by the media were the ARABS. That's why I am going to talk today about Arabs and how they presented by the American Media.
It becomes very clear to everyone who lives in this country for few years that most of Americans build their knowledge and make decisions on how to look at people from other cultures from what they watch on TV or at the movies. The media in the US has found a replacement word for the word Arabs, this new word is terrorism.
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United StatesIn the media right now when ever they talk about terrorism they have to include Arabs even if they have nothing to do with the terrorist attack that took place. It is true that there were few attacks on some American targets in the Middles East. But have you ever thought why these attacks committed against American targets only? Not European or Russian targets. Is it because Arabs hate Americans? Or there are other reasons? The United States was involved in the Middle East for a long time. The deep involvement started by the Arab Israeli wars, continued through the gulf war against Iraq, and stayed until today. People who live in the Middle East don't like the presence of the US forces in their countries. Even though the US helped to push Iraq out of Kuwait, most of the people in the gulf right now...