Summary
1) What did you learn from the “Arab and Other Middle Eastern Americans” article? Be specific and provide examples from the reading.
According to the Article “Arab and Other Middle Eastern Americans” had stated “the discrimination they experience continues to be both ethnic and religious in nature, shaped by anti-Muslim attitudes – prejudice frequently applied to practitioners of other faiths presumed on account of their ethnicity to be Muslim.” I have learned that since September 11 of 2001 attack in American soil had impacted Muslim families, and other religions that were often being generalized as the same. This had not only brought forward hate crimes in the street against Arab and Middle Eastern Americans but also involved workplace discrimination based on religion and/or national origin like it had stated in the article “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and state and local fair employment agencies also documented a signi cant increase in the number of charges alleging
workplace discrimination based on religion and/or national origin in the wake of September 2001” suffering for a wrong doing of another. I had also acknowledged that American Arab were 63% Christians and only 24% Muslim according to the reading “According to the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) up to 63 per cent of Arab Americans are Christians (35
per cent Roman Catholic, 10 per cent Protestant and 18 per cent Eastern Orthodox) and around 24 per cent are Muslims.” if you think about how many people really knew this because I am in shock myself but religion had nothing to do with the attack.
2) Discuss something you learned and/ or can relate to from 1-2 of this week’s videos.
According to the videos for instance “Misconception of Middle Eastern culture and religion” I have learned that Middle East has 18 countries with five major languages including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Kurdish and Hebrew with 20 minority languages and 17 different ethnic groups having it be a very diverse area. I had also learned that most Muslims don’t live in the Middle East, and of course are not Arabs, the Country with the most Muslim population is Indonesia. I had also learned that Middle Eastern college students may fear being in America, have thoughts that it’s going to be a bumpy road for them just because they’re from the Middle East. Also challenges Middle Eastern students may even had face is being put in a room for many hours by immigration just because of their identity.
3) Discuss the article on “Literacy Reform in the Middle East.” Provide examples from the reading.
According to the article Arab countries overall level of literacy is at minimum, especially Arab woman as the reading mentioned “Although there are literacy success stories in the Arab world, the overall level of literacy in Arab countries is low, especially with regard to woman.” this also encounters that in the poorest and most populated areas is where literacy is suffering. I can agree with what is the article mention “A concentration on literacy and basic education should positively affect many of the other areas requiring attention in the Arab world.” having a main focus on where it’s mostly affected to help the longevity of the country including citizens health, intelligence in politics, and overall citizens being more involved in society. These issues have encountered a rough outcome for example from the reading “In Yemen, with adult literacy rate was 49% in 2002, life expectancy was only 57 years, the infant mortality rate was 8.3%, and annual population growth was 3%.”
4) Share your source on this topic–let us know what it is, why you selected it, and why it matters.
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8rdQpw24yg
This video is About Middle East and Midwest immigrants colliding in the Michigan town decades ago where it became their Arab world, their community, their new home. I had picked this video because it starts on one state where Arab immigrants and Arab Americans had many histories, memory, growth, but then from the many years to come after that with a five-minute video they had mentioned how it changed for them before 9/11 and after. This matters because a culture that had related to the United States, suddenly has been hated or miss treated by the United States.
