Talk:Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States

message: I personally think articles about stereotypes are very difficult to write, what do you want to write? How many people of one group of people have a certain stereotypical feature about people of another? Where to get the data, are there big data about this? Don't think so, because we want to overcome stereotypes not catalogise them.
So you can write about how bad they are - where is the information?
This article is supposed to be about stereotypes of arabs and muslims, and the only thing a reader can find here is about how some people think, that there is an unfairly high amount of arab or muslim villains in western movies.  Wow, how absolutely useless! But even in a different Wikipedia article where this information might fit the title, don't you think that for example Russians or Germans or rich people also got a fair amount of the villain parts? Doesn't matter though, because that's not what this article should be about.
I say delete! (And rewrite if you want.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.29.155 (talk) 02:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a good idea; this title was directly copy/pasted from the main page & I agree that it isn't ideal.  In the discussion page of Stereotypes of East Asians, (renamed from Stereotypes of Asians), I was considering moving stereotypes of South Asians from the Asian page to this page since they are often similar since stereotypes tend to be appearance-based.  Do you think it'd be a good idea to incorporate South Asians into this page?  And if so, what precise title do you think would be best for this page? --Drenched 16:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text: All right.  It sounds like South Asians are currently without a home in the stereotypes pages then, but at the moment there doesn't seem to be much content about them anyway.  I suppose when someone comes up with content, they can create a seprate page for them.  I am going to move this page to "Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims" as you suggested. --Drenched 00:03, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personally 

message: While I understand the current situation, there still needs to be some balance, per WP:NPOV. I really don't know how to go about doing that, though. I have fond and positive memories of programs I saw on film and TV as a child, that actually made me want to be Arab or Persian and to visit the Middle East. I still do.
Here is a list that I found on Wiki: 
*Aladdin (film)
*Sinbad the Sailor
*Aladdin and the King of Thieves
(I'm not sure if there are negative stereotypes in the above, as I'm remembering them from a child's POV) - Jeeny Talk 04:22, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Balance in article 

message: Everything in this article seems to be about the United States.  I propose to change the name of this article to :Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States.  Comments? Hmains (talk) 18:43, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to agree with that assessment.  The scope of the discussion and references is considerably more limited than Anti-Arabism, for example. CasualObserver'48 (talk) 05:58, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States 

message: I ran across an article named American School Textbooks – How They Portrayed the Middle East from 1898 to 1994, while chasing something else.  The article starts a few page-ups fromhere. It occurs in the American Educational History Journal, Volume 35, Number 1 and 2, 2008, edited by J. Wesley Null, and easily seems to comply with RS.  The article provides reasons and an historic review of textbook usage and how improper stereotypes are born and continue to live.  Also, a review of how Islam is taught in the US, Interpreting Islam in American Schools, finds similar stereotype inaccuracies here.  I briefly added these into the lead, but more discussion is likely needed in a 'textbook' section. Negative stereotypes go well beyond popular culture.  
Another example of stereotyping/discrimination affecting Arabs in the US concerns relative political strength and lobbying.  "The acknowledged weakness within the political community of the Arab lobby vis-à-vis the pro-Israel lobby is demonstrated by the following example.  In 1988 John Sununu, an American of Arab origin, had to declare that he did not harbor anti-Jewish sentiment when he was chosen as a candidate for the position of White House Chief of Staff under President elect George Bush Sr.(126)  It is inconceivable that an American Jew, in the same position, would be called upon to make a similar pledge in relation to the Arabs.  However, this gap began to close in the mid-1990s, when for the first time, a US President Bill Clinton, addressed the NAAA."US policy towards Israel, by Elizabeth Stephens  Regards, CasualObserver'48 (talk) 07:23, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Food for thought, American textbooks, et al 

message: THe name of this page is a stereotype, that arabs and muslims are in one category. Only 20% of the world's Muslim population is Arab.
122.105.47.93 (talk) 13:26, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of page a stereotype 

message: Edited the Back to the Future reference, Doc Brown refers to them as Libyan nationalists, not terrorist. Also deleted reference to Black Hawk Down as the antagonists are Somalians, not Arabs.Cplbeaudoin (talk) 01:06, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Film Info 

message: Compare this article to that of Stereotypes of African Americans and Stereotypes of Jews and all you get is the idea that lots of people think negatively of Arabs and Muslims but no actual stereotypes.  Consider these stereotypes of African Americans.  Those are real stereotypes but this article has almost none.  "Bombers" and "bellydancers"  is all.  Not much to have an article about.
    1 Historical archetypes
        1.1 Blackface
        1.2 Sambo
        1.3 Mammy
        1.4 Mandingo Negro
        1.5 Sapphire
        1.6 Jezebel
    2 Modern stereotypes
        2.1 Deviant, radical, righteous
        2.2 Drug lords, crack victims, evil
        2.3 Watermelon stereotype
        2.4 Welfare queen
        2.5 Magical Negro
        2.6 Black women
This article could use a lot of work, imho Ridingdog (talk) 02:41, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This isn't even about stereotyping 

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