- What I learned from “Arab and other middle eastern americans” article was how many Arab Americans are Christians vs how many are Muslim. According to the ADC 63% of Arab Americans are Christians and 23% are Muslim. Usually, what you see in the media is that all Arab or Middle Eastern Americans are Muslim and being that I don’t know much about Arab or Middle Eastern people I thought most would be Muslim.
- Something I learned from the first video was that most of the world’s Muslims aren’t even in the Middle East. The country with the most Muslim popluation in the world is Inondsia which is in Southeast Asia.
- The article “Literacy Reform in the Middle East” is talking about the literacy rate in 2003 and how it is very low and how the U.S. wants to help improve literacy in these countries. The U.S. wanted to use objectives that call for the establishment 5 elements; a democracy foundation, democracy assistance group, a literacy corp, a micro-finance initiative, and a “forum for the future”.
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I also thought that all Muslims were from the Middle East. I think it’s interesting how they’re grouped so often into these stereotypes like them being in ISIS or some terrorist group. I also think it’s really interesting how most middle easterns are christian. The image that pops into my mind when I think of christianity is typically a white person, so it’s surprising that most middle easterns believe in christianity.
Hello Justin,
I just wanted to say how I agree with you about how you thought most Arab or Middle Eastern citizens or Americans would be Muslim when that is wrong. I believed this idea at first due to how it was portrayed in the media as you experienced too. Fortunately, I was able to cut this false perception at its roots as my mother is a Paralegal and travels around a lot and has met many Arab and Middle Eastern Americans who explained to her their culture and religion. My mother passing some of this information to me and allowing me to realize how diverse they are as with any other country. Aside from this, I was surprised when I learned how the country with the greatest population of Muslims was Indonesia as you mentioned and it just left me to really admire how spread out and complex the religion and culture of the Middle East is. Overall, thank you for sharing your post and have a nice day!
– Deleny Leon