What are some characteristics orientalism and how it has became discrimination toward Muslim and Arab Americans?
my understanding Orientalism is view of people and history of the orient with no recognition of change over time.
Can some one explain to me what i am looking for i am really confused.
This article rightly points out that the word Orientalism can have differing meanings. I suspect you are working on the meaning given it by Said, and this article does well on explaining that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism
and here is another less objective article:
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Orientalism.html
If i am reading and understanding this the characteristic of the orientalism is the behavior, habit,
tradition of the people in the east. but the way the scholar took it and wrote about the people was not more if there own imagination of how they conceived the information which showed a different side of orient. that how people have become prejudice and discriminate aginst these people am I correct so far. if not please explain it to because some things i still do not understanad like when the scholar went to observe the orient what was they looking for was it gain power. or was it to learn there culture , history and language.
You are trying to find out if you are stupid or not and the answer is duh, yes you are idiot!
Ha, I am a college student and I have this same homework assignment. I do not understand it either. I typed it into google and got this site. I am just as lost as you are buddy.
Ranea
what are some characteristics of orientalism?
All of you are not smart. All of you do not know the answer to the question.
what are three characterics of orientalism?
If you know the answer, then share it with everyone.
It is the generalizations of cultures, racial, and religious prejudices. it is the differences of the "West" and the "East" empires and what is inferior and alien to the West (Americans).
Thank you, Wanda. That actually gave me some insight into the question. I, too, had the same question for an assignment.
Just because people got stuck on this question doesn't mean they are stupid. It is rude to call someone stupid because you are not perfect either. Any body can act smart but most are not. So keep your dumb comments to yourself because it just makes you look stupid for being ignorant.
i am having the same problem with this question. Thanks wanda for your help
I'm having the same problem with this as everyone else in the class.
too funy I am here a year later looking for the same questions so thank all of you guys/.. you must be at Universiy of Phoenix.
Trying to get the same info!! LOL
Thats real funny!!! I am here 2 years later with the same assignment.. Yes! it is University of Pheonix.. I bet you have long graduated!
LeeAnn I think you are in my class I am stuck also. LOL
I am in University of Phoenix as well, and here looking for clarification. Thank you all for what you have posted, it has been a great help.
Hahahahahahahahhaha, UOP. Me too.
According Pyne, how have post-9-11 government responses affected prejudice and discrimination against Muslims, Arabs, and related groups?
o List two to three characteristics of Orientalism. How may Orientalism and prejudice contribute to hate crimes against these groups?
o In addition to the examples of tolerance identified in the article, what else can individuals do to promote tolerance and reduce prejudice in their towns and cities?
For ideas, go to
Said argues that Orientalism can be found in current Western depictions of "Arab" cultures. The depictions of "the Arab" as irrational, menacing, untrustworthy, anti-Western, dishonest, and--perhaps most importantly--prototypical, are ideas into which Orientalist scholarship has evolved. These notions are trusted as foundations for both ideologies and policies developed by the Occident. Said writes: "The hold these instruments have on the mind is increased by the institutions built around them. For every Orientalist, quite literally, there is a support system of staggering power, considering the ephemerality of the myths that Orientalism propagates. The system now culminates into the very institutions of the state. To write about the Arab Oriental world, therefore, is to write with the authority of a nation, and not with the affirmation of a strident ideology but with the unquestioning certainty of absolute truth backed by absolute force." He continues, "One would find this kind of procedure less objectionable as political propaganda--which is what it is, of course--were it not accompanied by sermons on the objectivity, the fairness, the impartiality of a real historian, the implication always being that Muslims and Arabs cannot be objective but that Orientalists. . .writing about Muslims are, by definition, by training, by the mere fact of their Westernness. This is the culmination of Orientalism as a dogma that not only degrades its subject matter but also blinds its practitioners."
it often implies essentializing and prejudiced outsider interpretations of Eastern cultures and peoples.
The simplistic view of the people and history of the Orient with no recognition of change over time or the diversity within its many cultures
the mosque does not represent
religious freedom and diversity or even a curiosity but a foreign threat in yet
another example of Orientalism. Muslim groups have found some communities
blocking their efforts to build religious centers.
In form and magnitude, they are much like what is shown toward
other subordinate groups. Regrettably, the situation appears to have gone beyond Orientalism
in which one sees people as “the other” and somewhat frightening. What
makes current expressions of hostility strikingly different are that the events of the
21st century have been given a decidedly patriotic fervor; that is, for many who overtly
express their anti-Muslim or anti-Arab feeling, they are also being pro-American.
This lack of truly understanding
one another is not totally new, but is
built upon the Orientalism that has its roots in
the initial contacts between Europeans and
the people of the Middle East and South Asia.
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Orientalism studies the following in the Near and Far East:
culture
language
peoples
but felt more negative toward U.S. citizens of Arab descent, new immigrants, Palestinians, and residents of Islamic or Middle Eastern countries.
By requiring male immigrants from Middle Eastern, South Asian, and other Muslim countries to register with authorities, the government is signaling that all males from those countries are dangerous, when the Justice Department detained 750 immigrants, mostly South Asian and Middle Eastern, on minor immigration violations to look for terrorist ties. A recent Department of Justice internal report tells how the government held many people without any proof of terrorist links, often for long periods of time, effectively stigmatizing entire groups.
In the months immediately following 9-11, hate crimes against Muslims shot up to 34 times their pre-attack levels, according to FBI reports. The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), based in Washington, D.C., reported that hate crimes against people believed to be of Middle Eastern descent increased 40 times before dropping to about double the former rate—and that rate has held steady.
Reports of workplace bias have stayed consistently high. Complaints to the U.S. Equal Opportun-ity Employment Commission of discrimination against Muslim workers have doubled. Reports to the ADC of employment discrimination against Arab Americans quadrupled in 2002.