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Surely the U.S. government must step in and say enough is enough. Unfortunately, the truth couldn't be further from this. Instead of condemning these negative stereotypes of Arabic people, the Department of Defence and the U.S. Marine Corps have provided military equipment, technical assistance and personnel to help the Hollywood studios create these anti-Arab films. Over 14 Hollywood films such as True Lies and Rules of Engagement, which all show Americans killing Arabs, thank the Department of Defence in their credits. It's not just adults which are being influenced by stereotypes of Arabic people. Hollywood is targeting children as well. When children think of Arabic countries a host of stereotypes must come to mind: Belly dancers, sultans, gold, palaces, market places, and flying carpets. Where did they get these ideas from? Disney's animated feature film Aladdin of course. Disney Americanized numerous aspects of the film. They renamed the princess 'Jasmine' (she was originally called 'Buddir al Buddor'). They changed her clothing from what a traditional princess would wear to the somewhat lower status of a belly dancer's attire. They also gave the evil Jafer exaggerated Arab features and depicted him in a far from pleasant way. So if children are brought up to have downbeat attitudes of Arabic people then the Hollywood studios are just perpetuating these unhelpful labels. Some people in the Arabic community describe their portrayal in Hollywood movies as the three b's. They are either depicted as bombers, belly dancers or billionaires. I have three b's of my own: I'm bemused how Hollywood gets away with their blatant jibes at Arabic culture, I'm baffled that this issue hasn't been thrust into the media spotlight and I'm overwhelmed by the brashness of the U.S. government in regard to controlling this ongoing representation of Arabic people. By Toby Clarke
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