Eastern culture people are usually thought about as being “villains” by the Western culture. Most Western people don’t know much about Eastern culture, or only hear the bad things that happen there on the news, and automatically assume Eastern people are evil. In many Hollywood films there has been Eastern people playing the roles of the bad ones. The movie Aladdin which is a kids film, has a theme song that isn’t painting a nice or real picture for kids. The song has a line that says “It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home” that line is absolutely wrong, Eastern people and Eastern places are not cruel, however they are making kids at a young age believe that. Another archetype is of Eastern people being “fanatics.” This usually has to do with some Eastern people being close to Islam, however not …show more content…
It’s hard to know whether everyone has the same opinion, it’s most likely that some disagree. Said mentioned a question that probably someone asked and it was “Is the Arab world full of terrorists?” That question is a fallacy because of the word “full” that word implies that almost all of the people living in the Eastern side are terrorists. This fallacy is meant to make people answer yes or no, and those are not correct answers, terrorists could be anywhere not just in one place. Another fallacy used in this film was “appeal to ignorance” this means using ignorance as evidence to prove or explain something. An example from the film was the Oklahoma city bomb, the media believed that because the bombing was so powerful and came without a warning it had to do with the Middle East. The media used this fallacy simply to have someone to blame since they had no evidence yet of who did it, and they picked Middle Eastern people because they knew many would believe it. It’s easy to believe that idea because many Western people associate bombings with the Middle