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ABSTRA T
The media e!idently is a ma"or institution in society and it #lays a critical role$ %t rein&orces our
!alues and norms' it gi!es us concrete e(am#les o& what ha##ens to those who transgress these
norms' and most im#ortantly) it #er#etuates certain ways o& seeing the world and #eo#le within
the world$ The media is an integral #art o& society$ %t utili*es the same bul+ o& +nowledge that
can be +nown as ,common sense, which most o& us ac-uire in our #reo#erational stage o&
de!elo#ment$ .o one is born racist$ Howe!er) #eo#le are susce#tible to become racist)
de#ending u#on how he or she was raised$ .e!ertheless) un"usti&iable negati!e beha!iors and
attitudes towards a grou# and its members ha!e ignited heated debates determining whether or
not such beha!iors are &utile or bene&icial$ /ne o& the most contro!ersial debates concerning the
issue o& racism is media bias$ %n some cases) the media will &a!or one race more than another$
This #a#er0s #rimary &ocus is on the medium o& racial bias &rom the media$ All the salient #oints
o& why this swelling issue should be discussed will be &urther e(#lained in the #a#er$ By
recogni*ing and &amiliari*ing oursel!es with how the media in&luences our #erce#tions) society
can de!elo# a concrete resolution to lessen the substantial #ower the media has in our li!es$
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%.TR/9< T%/.
%n the Americans cannot wal+ into a store without an em#loyee loo+ing
o!er their shoulder$ Me(icans cannot ha!e a body co!ered in tattoos without someone thin+ing
that they are a&&iliated with a gang or smuggling drugs$ Arabs cannot wear a hi"ab or a ta-iya in
#ublic without someone re&erencing them as a terrorist$ %n 1uro#e) much li+e the 2rench) and
2rench>Muslims do not ha!e an e-uitable balance as their nati!e 2rench counter#arts$ .o one
deser!es to be shamed &or the color o& their s+in$ .onetheless) racism is &ound on e!ery continent
in "ust about e!ery country$ %m#licit racial bias has become a bu**word used to broadly &rame
bigotry and racism as something so entrenched that some #eo#le aren0t aware that they
subconsciously harbor racist &eelings$ Generally s#ea+ing) #eo#le ha!e a tendency to associate a
dar+ s+in com#le(ion with negati!e beha!ior$ %n both the white #eo#le in the media is at its a#e($ S#eci&ically) Blac+s) Me(icans
and Arabs in one way or another) are sub"ected to une-ual treatment &rom the media$ ountless
cases re!eal racism and bigotry ha!e le&t many #eo#le #etri&ied and somber as they see+ "ustice$
The ob"ecti!e o& this #a#er is to study how the society0s !iew o& non>nati!e Americans and non>
nati!e 2rench correlates with how the media #ortrays them as a whole$ Throughout this research)
studying race will gi!e a wide !iew on di&&erent cultures and how the di&&erent cultures interact
with one another) because although the media in&orms its audience on #ositi!e things occurring
in the world today) it also generates negati!e !iews on certain grou#s) s#eci&ically Blac+s)
Me(icans and Arabs$
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L%M%TAT%/.S
The study o& the media0s in&luence on racial !iews is highly rele!ant because o& current
e!ents regarding racial acti!ity across both nations$ 9es#ite its rele!ance) there are limitations
that can result in the #resence o& bias in this research$
Narrowed source subject matter: The research conducted will be #rimarily limited to
#sychological studies related to how the brain se-uesters a s#eci&ic s+in color with that o& how
the #erson will beha!e$ This research -uestion) &or A&rican>Americans or Blac+ 1uro#eans) is
being #osed as a res#onse to the +illings o& Tamir Rice) Sandra Bland) Tray!on Martin) 1ric
Garner) and many others$ 2or American>Muslims and 2rench>Muslims) the research -uestion is
#osed in res#onse to the =?:: attac+s and terrorist attac+s that ha!e de&aced the religion o& %slam$
2or Me(icans) the research -uestion is a res#onse to immigration to the
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Another limitation related to geogra#hical location is that the author) des#ite witnessing
racial discrimination here in the hand
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e(#erience with racial discrimination$ orres#ondingly) due to #ersonal e(#eriences and
obser!ations) along with notes the author inscribed #ro!ided the author with some insight that
assisted her in this research #a#er$
The author care&ully selected sources with high ho#es in #ro!iding the most neutral #a#er
as #ossible$ The author attem#ted to achie!e a balance between di&&ering #ers#ecti!es$
L%T1RATbased &aith$ 2ollowing the end o& the := th century) the %slamic world
was &ace>to>&ace with the Western World and its0 ideologies$ All in all) generally s#ea+ing)
Muslims in America were acce#ted with o#en arms$
2antina) analy*es #ossibilities that would most li+ely occur on the media) based o&&
history) about the tragic death o& three young Muslims at ha#el Hill based a##roach) too+ a historical a##roach to de&end her #osition$ Muslims)
Sunni and Shi0a) were belie!ed to be behind the /+lahoma ity bombings that too+ #lace in
:==6$ 2ollowing other attac+s) !iolence against Muslims s#i+ed$
%n“(he )ilenced *ictims of %&'': Part ',” by Goal Saedi) the treatment o& Muslims in
America is &urther analy*ed$ Saedi highlights the unbe+nownst &act that the Western Media has)
continues) and will ne!er sto# negati!ely #ortraying Arabs and Muslims in both the news and
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&ilms$ Hollywood maneu!ers on the hac+neyed idea o& stereoty#es as a shorthand way o&
de&ining characters in ways that are easy &or audiences to #in#oint and digest$ But a steady diet
o& negati!e stereoty#es as #ortrayed in the media can be !ery destructi!e to young #eo#le i& there
are also !ery &ew #ositi!e role models that they can identi&y with$ Arab stereoty#es ha!e s#read
across America$ %n &ilm) Hollywood has consistently stereoty#ed Arabs since the !ery beginning$
2ilmma+ers claim that they inherited and embellished 1uro#e s #re>e(isting Arab caricatures
rather than creating new ones$ %n :C=8) Thomas 1dison created a short &ilm in which ,Arab,
women in harem out&its dance to seduce a male audience$ The &ilm was called “+atima Dances”
and was the &irst &ilm to use the belly dancer stereoty#e$ An unnoticed e(am#le o& cartoonsde#icting Arabs in a negati!e manner is the e(ceedingly #o#ular 9isney animated &eature &ilm
Aladdin) which was release in .o!ember o& :==4$ %n its attem#ts to ma+e the &ilm more
a##ealing to the Western world) 9isney Americani*ed the names and a##earances o& the lead
characters$ The &ilmDs light>s+inned lead characters) Aladdin and Easmine) ha!e Anglici*ed
&eatures and Anglo>American accents while most o& the other characters) such as the merchants
on the street and the &ilms antagonist) Ea&ar) are dar+>s+inned) swarthy and !illainous) with thic+
Arabic accents and grotes-ue &acial &eatures$ %n the Western world) Arabs in tele!ision and
mo!ies are #ortrayed as bombers) belly dancers) or billionaires$
The #re!alence o& mass communication has grown greatly o!er the #ast &ew decades$
Subse-uently) Eohnson) in “ ways the -edia pholds /hite Privile0e and Demoni1es People of
2olor,” asserts its uncertainty as to why many Americans label Arabs or Muslims as the world0s
most #resent terrorists and murderers' when in &act white su#remacists ha!e +illed twice as many
#eo#le$ Eohnson enumerates how the media dis#lays white #eo#le0s accom#lishments and #eo#le
o& color0s alleged crimes$ %& a white man was to +idna# and ra#e a child) the media would say he
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is Fmentally disturbed and then would bring u# his childhood) #in#ointing &acts that he was in
Boy Scouts and that he was lass> resident and the news would show his graduation #hotos$
Howe!er) i& a blac+ man was to +idna# and ra#e a child) the media would label him as a
Fcriminal and tal+ about his troubled childhood in and out o& school growing u#) and the news
would de#ict him holding a toy gun when he was a youth$ They would show his mug shot &rom
si( years ago &or committing a small crime) a misdemeanor) in which he already ser!ed his time$
The media would not dare mention the &act that he too was in Boy Scouts and was well li+ed by
his community$
His#anic>Americans) li+e many other minority grou#s in the *oot suiters0 sentiment s#ar+ed a series o& attac+s on young
Me(ican American males in Los Angeles which culminated in what became +nown as the
e(ecrable FIoot Suit Riots$ A##ro(imately 6)JJJ ser!icemen and ci!ilians gathered in
downtown Los Angeles and attac+ed Me(ican>American *oot suiters and non>*oot suiters ali+e$
Hollywood o#erates on stereoty#es as a shorthand way o& de&ining characters in ways
that are easy &or audiences to identi&y and digest$ But a steady diet o& negati!e stereoty#es as
#ortrayed in the media can be !ery destructi!e to young #eo#le es#ecially i& there are insu&&icient
#ositi!e role models that they can identi&y with) according to i!il Rights Lawyer) Sebastian
Gibson$
2rance is not as u#>to>date with &reedom and e-uality &or all as the
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#rohibiting concealment o& the &ace in a #ublic area$ The ban o& &ace>co!ering includes mas+s)
helmets) balacla!as) ni-Kbs and conse-uently bur-as' i& the &ull>body co!ering co!er0s the &ace$
9ionne suggests that the social ga# between immigrant Muslims and nati!e 2rench #eo#le will
-uic+ly grow$ The +ey argument su##orting this #ro#osal is that &ace>co!erings #re!ent a clear
identi&ication o& an indi!idual) which is both a security ris+) and a social hindrance within a
society which relies on &acial recognition and e(#ression in communication) as li+e any other
language$ The +ey argument against the ban is that it encroaches on and !iolates indi!idual
&reedoms$ The law was challenged and ta+en to the 1uro#ean ourt o& Human Rights which
u#held the 2rench law on Euly :) 4J:5) acce#ting the argument o& the 2rench go!ernment that thelaw was based on ,a certain idea o& li!ing together$, 9alil Bouba+eur) is a rector o& the Great
Mos-ue o& aris and he testi&ied to the 2rench #arliament during the #re#aration o& the bill$ He
commented that the ni-Kb was not #rescribed in %slam) that in the 2rench and contem#orary
conte(t its s#read was associated with radicali*ation and criminal beha!ior) and that wearing it
was inconsistent with 2rance s all the more conce#t o& secularism /n the contrary) Mohammed
Moussaoui) the #resident o& the 2rench ouncil o& the Muslim 2aith) o##osed using a law that
abolished &ace>co!erings but &a!ored discouraging Muslim women &rom wearing the &ull !eil) or
bur-a$ /nce the law was o&&icial) it was widely #ublici*ed across e!ery tele!ision) e!ery radio)
and e!ery news#a#er in the country$ 2rance has the largest number o& Muslims in Western
1uro#e$ According to Saedi) about :J o& 2rance0s #o#ulation is Muslim) a##ro(imately 8
million de!out Muslims$ Adida et al. in “/hat -akes -uslims +eel +rench!” re#orted that
more than =J o& both Muslim and non>Muslim res#ondents in 2rance agree that Muslims are
e(#eriencing the most religious #re"udice$ .ot atholics$ .ot Eews$ .ot Hindus or Si+h0s @ but
Muslims$
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%n 2rance) blac+ #eo#le) otherwise +nown as Blac+>1uro#eans in tabloids are
o!erre#resented as criminals$ Many news#a#ers ha!e stated that unli+e Muslims in 2rance)
Blac+s do not increase as much negati!ity o& im#licit attitudes &rom the general #ublic as
Muslims$ .ot too long on one o& the most #o#ular social>networ+ing sites) 2aceboo+) blac+
"ustice minister hristiane Taubira) was com#ared to a mon+ey$ A similar insult that &ollowed
included the headline on the &ront #age o& a right>wing news#a#er com#osed by a candidate &rom
the &ar>right .ational 2ront #olitical #arty$ The headline was entitled F le!er as a mon+ey that
&eatured a #hoto o& Taubira alongside a mon+ey$ 2rom this attac+ on such a high>#ro&ile &igure
led to the utmost su##ort &or Taubira$ Many #eo#le) &oreigners es#ecially) belie!e that there areinnumerable racial re&erences embedded in the 2rench Language and the 2rench ulture @ -uite
ironic &or a realm that acti!ely ad!ocates the #rinci#le o& “50alit5.” %n oirier0s“"s +rance
racist! # use shocks nation” article) he &ocuses on the abuse recei!ed by members o& the 2rench
Re#ublic as well$ Howe!er) instead o& a grown man throwing racial slurs at Taubira) it was a :4>
year>old girl who called Taubira a guenon a tri&ling slim A&rican mon+ey that has long hind
limbs) tail and long hair around the &aceN) and told her to go eat bananas$ This incident is similar
to what was e(#erienced by ecile Oyenge) %taly0s &irst blac+ rime Minister who actually had
bananas thrown at her$
9%S related e!ents) es#ecially with the emergence o&
highly>e&&ecti!e modes o& deli!ering in&ormation to the general #ublic$ The most #o#ular modus
o#erandi would be tele!ision and the internet$ Through the media) the #ublic is e-ui##ed to
accumulate in&ormation that in&luences the #erce#tions ado#ted in regards to race$ A gate+ee#er
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is a role in which the media determines which sub"ects are newsworthy$ onse-uently) media
#lays an im#ortant role in sha#ing the #ublic0s #erce#tion into an a##ro#riate res#onse' howe!er)
this can !ary in how success&ul mass media and mass communication actually is$
Muslims & rabs in the !nited States o" merica: Be&ore answering the research -uestion i&
whether or not the media generates negati!e !iews o& s#eci&ic races) the author would li+e to
stress the im#ortance o& +nowing the di&&erence between a Muslim and an Arab$ ommonly
mista+en to be interchangeable) the two words) Muslims and Arabs) neither can nor will they
e!er be trans#osed$ A Muslim) is sim#ly a &ollower o& the religion o& %slam @ regardless o& the
&ollower0s race$ The de&inition o& Arab as gi!en by the /(&ord dictionary is as &ollowsP FA
member o& a Semitic #eo#le) originally &rom the Arabian #eninsula and neighbouring territories)
inhabiting much o& the Middle 1ast and .orth A&rica$ -uslim is religion>based) whereas #ra is
region>based$ -uslims are &rom di&&erent #arts o& the world whereas #ra s are ty#ically &rom
the Arab region$ -uslims s#ea+ di&&erent languages) whereas an #ra only s#ea+s Arabic
Ahmed) 4J::N$
.ow) according to the Merriam>Webster dictionary) a pho ia is an e(aggerated) usually
ine(#licable and illogical &ear o& a #articular ob"ect) class o& ob"ects) or situation$ A##roaching
two decades a s#eci&ic #hobia that has gri##ed Western societies) s#eci&ically the
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social and cultural relations) while rationali*ing the necessity to de#loy !iolence as a tool
to achie!e ,ci!ili*ational rehab, o& the target communities Muslim or otherwiseN$
%slamo#hobia reintroduces and rea&&irms a global racial structure through which resource
distribution dis#arities are maintained and e(tended$
%slamo#hobia e(isted in #remise be&ore the terrorist attac+s o& Se#tember ::) 4JJ:$ %n !iewing
the wides#read nature o& #ost>=?:: %slamo#hobia) it has been #osited that #erha#s #re>e(isting
%slamo#hobic sentiment was re>awa+ened a&ter the terrorist attac+s$ %n other words) it increased
in notoriety o!er the #ast decade %slamo#hobiaP Muslim Sentiment in the
WestN$ 2ollowing =?::) outraged #eo#le com#letely lashed out at innocent Arab>Americans)
about whom negati!e stereoty#es bris+ly blossomed$ .arrow>minded #eo#le insist that all
Muslims were res#onsible &or those attac+s$ To them) it was not "ust /sama Bin Laden and the
#lane hi"ac+ers' it was indeed all Muslims$ What many &ail to reali*e is that it was solely Bin
Laden who sought to "eo#ardi*e America0s so!ereignty$ As #re!iously stated) tele!ision
deleteriously renders Muslims also$ ritics o& the award>winning Showtime tele!ision series
Homeland decried it as ,TV0s most %slamo#hobic show) Vele*) 4J:6N$ %t was accused o&
embedding racial slurs or habiliments that would be considered o&&ensi!e to a &ollower o& Allah
and the religion o& %slam$ 9es#ite #rotests &rom Arab and Muslim writers and acti!ists)
Homeland mo!ed &rom one season to the ne(t$
Since =?::) research shows that the American
terrorist sus#ects and #er#etrators %slamo#hobiaP Muslim Sentiment in the
West) 4J:6N$ Many Muslims do not &eel res#ected by Western societies$ 2actors that in&luence the
le!el o& res#ect includeP di&&erences in culture) religion) language) and #olitics$ 9onald Trum# is
a candidate &or the resident o& the
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aggressi!e bombing o& the Mideast terrorist grou# commonly +nown as %S%S or %S%L) and has
su##orted sur!eillance o& Muslims in the
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citi*ens) newly arri!ed migrants &rom the south) or Latin Americans in their own countriesQwere thought
o& as lesser humans$
A recent #oll by the .ational His#anic Media oalition called) 6(he "mpact of -edia )tereotypes
on 7pinions and #ttitudes (owards 8atinos6 #ro!es that negati!e media #ortrayals in media contribute to
negati!e o#inions o& Latinos and immigrants by non>Latinos$ The ma"or &indingsP
.ews and entertainment media ha!e a strong in&luence on non>Latino #erce#tions about Latinos
and immigrants$ Media #ortrayals o& Latinos and immigrants can diminish or e(acerbate stereoty#ically
negati!e o#inions about them$ Those with more direct interaction with or +nowledge o& His#anics hold
more #ositi!e !iews o& the grou# and its members$ Those holding !ery negati!e !iews are o&ten those
with little direct e(#osure to His#anic Americans$ .egati!e #ortrayals o& Latinos and immigrants are
#er!asi!e in news and entertainment media$ onse-uently) non>Latinos commonly belie!e that many
media>#romoted negati!e stereoty#es about these grou#s are true$ eo#le e(#osed to negati!e
entertainment or news narrati!es about Latinos hold the most un&a!orable and hostile !iews about
Latinos$ onser!ati!e radio and 2o( .ews #rogram !iewers are less &amiliar with and less &a!orable
toward Latinos and immigrants on nearly e!ery measure included in the sur!ey$ The most commonly heldLatino stereoty#es run #arallel to those re&lected in the media$ artici#ants were as+ed to recall the +inds
o& roles they see Latinos #lay in tele!ision and &ilm$ The to# three roles non>Latinos see Latinos #lay areP
criminal or gang member) gardener or landsca#er) and maid or house+ee#er Racist Latino Stereoty#esN$
9iscrimination remains and there is an increase in hate crimes against Me(ican>Americans) as one o& the
#ercei!ed symbols o& that discrimination) the Me(ico Border 2ence) nears com#letion Gibson)
4JJ6N$ Gibson suggested that instead o& #ulling together in these di&&icult times) we may see a greater
#olari*ation o& attitudes) only increasing the need &or more ci!il rights lawyers to #rotect the ci!il rights
o& His#anics) Latinos and Me(ican>Americans$
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go!ernment should create a new law that would ma+e Fracial harassment a #unishable o&&ense
Ware) 4J:5N$ The debate has got so heated that Muslim immigrants ha!e created ,no>go *ones,
not "ust in 2rance but in 1uro#e as well where non>Muslims are not welcome Singer) 4J:6N$ The
e(istence o& Fno>go *ones in #redominantly Muslim areas across the 1uro#ean continent has
become e!en more o& a considerable to#ic o& con!ersation since the latest aris massacre on
.o!ember : i#es) 4J:6N$ riscilla Lalisse>Ees#ersen) editor and &ounder o& Prissy -a0 )
recounted on Fun #etit incident in her wor+#lace$ %n :===) in aris) a human resources director
con&ided in her that i& a #otential candidate sends in a curriculum !itae or V which is a
document that details all an indi!idual0s #ast education) e(#eriences) and com#etencies)including #ublic #resentations) academic writing and #ro&essional de!elo#mentN) with a name
li+e 2atima or Mohammed or Ali) that that #erson0s a##lication was to be trashed' com#letely
discarded as i& it was ne!er touched Lalisse>Ees#ersen) 4J: N$ Hearing a non>2rench name in
2rance #rom#ts others to not ta+e situations so lightly$ The threat o& %slamic terrorism is
intensi&ying as a direct result o& a recent u#ward trend in arrests &or religiously>ins#ired terrorism
re#orted by 1uro#ol) the 1uro#ean en&orcement arm Team) 4J:6N$ Many non>
Muslims are not o& the same o#inion$
Blac%s in $rance: Long>term e(#osure to media stereoty#es seems to in&luence e!aluations o&
A&rican>Americans and &oreigners) more research in!estigating this im#licit e&&ect is needed
arroll) 4J:6N$ 9i!ergent reactions to the hit 2rench>&ilm 8es "ntoucha les ) le&t many audiences
unsettled as they #ondered their con&licting !iews$ The mo!ie concerns a #araly*ed rich white
man who hires an e(>con as his all>#ur#ose li!e>in assistant @ who is blac+$ The two soon
become &riends and his assistant teaches him !aluable li&e lessons$ The 2rench audience) those
who had a &air com#le(ion o& course) lo!ed the &ilm$ American critics !iewed the blac+ guy as a
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4J:4N$ All throughout 2rance and across the 1uro#ean continent) media co!erage seems to call
out the racism in the Tray!on Martin case as a clear continuance o&
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are usually threatening to the dominant culture or the status -uo$ When blac+ #eo#le #rotest) the
media calls it a riot $ When white #eo#le #rotest) the media literally calls it a peacefu l #rotest$
Blac+ #eo#le and Me(icans are o!erre#resented as criminals$ Those two grou#s ha!e a
liberal>based ideology$ They #lace e-uality &or all o!er #ersonal &reedom or gain$ 2urthermore)
they are treated aggressi!ely by #olice o&&icers$ Thus) they ha!e miniscule &aith in the law
en&orcement and the "udicial system$ Blac+ #eo#le delineate thugs) whereas Me(icans re#resent
&actory wor+ers or banditos$ Much o& the Western world) associates the religion o& %slam with
terrorism or atrocious terrorist attac+s$ 9es#ite the widely renowned terrorist grou#) %S%S using
the religion o& %slam to "usti&y their actions asserting it was Allah0s will) is not at all what the
religion illustrates$ %slam means #eace) security and surrender$ et) Muslims are sub"ected to
une-ual treatment$ Again) the media determines which stories to write in the news#a#er) which
stories to hear about on the radio) and which stories to dis#lay on the tele!ision$ Although the
media does indeed in&orm its audience on #ositi!e things in the world) it also generates negati!e
!iews on &rom the general #ublic on certain grou#s) s#eci&ically Blac+s) Me(icans and Arabs$
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