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The film Reel bad Arabs is basically about how Hollywood movies vilify the Middle Eastern. The film is a collection of movies where it involves different situation in Middle Eastern and mostly they are all violence. They concluded the Middle Eastern by the action of some people instead of the whole community. From Dr. Jack Shaheen, his opinion is that the American Government and Hollywood are worked together to support to war Arabs. In my opinion, I agree with Dr. Shaheen, from the film, most of the movies are showing the middle eastern when they are in public, not when they are with family. Moreover, they way how United Stated educated the children and how the public magazine updated are also show the purpose of the American government. I can easily recognize that the movies only show the Middle Eastern in a negative way. To make a conclusion about the other countries, the first thing to look at is the people when they are with their family. This is not simple because everyone has different personality, and sometime people don’t show their personality in public. For example, a president wouldn’t show the love of his or her family during a meeting or at a presentation. Instead we need to understand that everyone has the love of their family. Do Hollywood movies show the Middle Eastern when they are with family? The answer is no, they only make most of the scene that people is already knew, such as situation that involve war, gun-shooting or hijacked, but they never tried to change the negative imaged of the Middle Eastern.
The idea of most of the Hollywood movie about the middle eastern are base on the damaged of the middle eastern have made to American; therefore, they think that all the middle eastern are the same, they all bad and try to hurt the U.S. Even in some of the cartoon, there are a lot of joke that try to tell that the middle eastern are stereotyped, which made all children had the same ideas and the same way to think about the middle eastern.

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