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    Maratabat Among Muslims

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    elders; it is learned gradually through observation from the old Maranaos. I. Historical Background Maratabat is a Maguindanaon or a Maranao’s term which means "family honor" or "family pride”. It is the core of all family value system in the Muslim dominated provinces of Mindanao. This is practiced very strongly by the Maranaos (from

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    Censorship and Literature: Term Paper Ours is an age of information and technology‚ convenient‚ and readily-available. Any piece of information‚ opinion and critique is all but a mouse-click away. Like most advancements in technology‚ this is both a boon and a bane‚ a double-edged sword. The age of the Internet‚ in which we all reside now‚ has brought forth its fair share of controversies over the past few years. From the leaked sex tapes of Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian‚ to the relatively more

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    Stereotypes in the Media

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    Herman October 25‚ 2010 Over the past couple of decades the usage of offensive stereotypes have played a big role in popular films‚ TV shows‚ music videos‚ and comedy routines today. In fact one can only argue that these offensive stereotypes have increased considerably and will only continue to grow. There are many reasons as to why these stereotypes have only increased and have led to the creators of these films making millions and millions of dollars. The main reason behind this is making fun

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    Negative Stereotypes

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    Negative stereotypes are the product of unfortunate experiences and cultural conditioning: if a person disapproves of a situation‚ he will specifically label it. Most of the time‚ these “labels” originate from instances which the person has either experienced or been taught to believe. Due to this‚ society has started to divide due to race‚ gender‚ and religion‚ especially after the recent presidential election. Though‚ the youth of today’s generation can prevent this situation from worsening by

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    Globalization and Stereotypes The purpose of globalization is to offer other countries their ideas‚ and values‚ and attitudes‚ about the world. The effects of globalization will lead to stereotypical views thrown in based on what we think we know because we are trying to control other countries by telling them what is wrong with their system and how our way is better for them. The United States is considered to be a world power and deem that the rest of the world needs our guidance to become what

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    Stereotypes In America

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    conflicts due to differences in cultures. In other words‚ these differences and conflicts have gradually created stereotypes within people‚ especially within Americans who consider themselves superiority and people from Asia‚ Mexico‚ Africa‚ etc. who are considered as inferiority. These have been perpetuated in popular culture including film‚ TV‚ advertising‚ music‚ and consumer products. “Film and television have been notorious in disseminating images of racial minorities which establish for audiences

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    The American Muslim Woman In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks on the city of New York and its Twin Towers‚ the existence of Muslims in the United States has increasingly increased apprehensions among the American people. Muslims are lumped together and the American perceptions are based more on stereotyping than actual empirical research‚ according to Esposito‚ “All too often the coverage of Islam and the Muslim world conclude there is a monolithic Islam

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    Breaking Down Religious Stereotypes on Pop Culture: An Analysis of the Muslim-American in the New Muslim Cool (2009) by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor This film analysis will define the break down of negative stereotypes of Muslim culture through the context of Muslim-American pop culture as defined in New Muslim Cool (2009) by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor. Taylor (2009) present Hamza Perez and his family as an example of a positive presentation of Muslim –Americans that have been demonized by the American

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    Social Stereotypes

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    Stereotypes are a set of specific characteristics force upon a groups of people or social groups‚ because of their gender‚ race or ethnic background. They generalize this groups and lead to acts of discrimination and ignore diversity of the group (Nadra Kareem Nittle). Stereotypes create unnecessary social tensions and lead to social divide. Almost every day we are faced with gender‚ racial or ethnic stereotyping. Either if it’s a police arresting a black person wearing a “hoodie” just because he

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    and physical health of those who are prejudiced. Being constantly surrounded by superficial thoughts can heavily influence one’s feelings of self-worth. This was seen in the activity we did in class where we listed different stereotypes of various ethnicities. One stereotype mentioned was that all Asians are good at math‚

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