Arabs in the media!

In the media there are various stereotypes and schema's. Most specifically, most are about people's race and ethnicity backgrounds. Now besides African American's, who I believe are the most stereotyped race in the United States of America. Arabs have to be the most stereotyped race in the United States. In the media especially since the terrorists attack on the Twin Towers during 9/11. Most of the time now anytime you see an Arab in any public place they are automatically feared, because of how they look and how their stereotyped.

Now Arabs have been stereotyped in real life and in realistic movies such as The Mummy, Munich, and Rules of Engagement. But they also have been depicted as drastically evil characters as well in childrens movies like "Aladdin." I decided to content the negative connotations to Arabians in the movie Aladdin. Just to see how negatively they were portrayed and stereotyped in the movie!

Arabian Women are also viewed as very exotic, and sometimes "slutty" in a way!

From the above graph, showing content analysis of the Arabian stereotypes that I found in the Disney movie "Aladdin" and how many times they were used. I can tell you that Arabs are stereotyped very negatively in the media. The theory in the media that has the most to do with this type of content is Schema theory. Schema theory relates to most of the stereotypes that are taken in the media. Because it has to do with mental pictures in the media, Schema theory is a very powerful weapon in the media. We see the way Arabs are portrayed in the media, which leads to the way they are percieved in real life, in many aspects I see this as very very sad!