This summer I went on a mission trip with my church to Cuba for one week. We visited our companion church which is located in Los Arabos, It is four hours away from Havana. While we are in Los Arabos the people of the community were nice enough to let us live in their homes for a week. This was my second year going and it was a lot of fun helping the people and giving back to the community. Los Arabos is the complete opposite of Havana, its more farm land and open greenery while Havana is more touristy.
(Gordon 58). The house chores that would usually be saved for the women of society was shunned by Arab women in a response to their sheltered status shoved on them by Islam. Before Islam, women were writers, historians, nurses, and warriors. But with Islam their rights were stripped away and they were placed in harems-the women quarters of the Islamic household (Gordon 58). The harem usually consisted of up to four wives, concubines, slave girls entertainers, and domestic slaves (Lewis 74 and Segal 38).
The Arab peninsula was under control of the Ottoman Turks. During WW1 in the time period of 1914-1918 it allowed Arab tribes to fight against the Turks. The Arabs fought on the side of the Allies. Arabs hoped to be freed from Turkish control and gain independence, TE Lawrence went to speak to Arab tribes to gain their support for WWI. France and Great Britain planned on taking Arab states as colonies.
Many held stereotypes against the Middle-Eastern because of the September attacks. Lots of these stereotypes were held up by ignorance of the misinformed. Many weren’t familiar with the culture and customs of the Middle East, and this raised the question: What is the Middle East really like? All calls were answered on October 31, 2005, George Saunders, a graduate from Syracuse and former GQ magazine writer, traveled to Dubai and experienced what the other side of the world is like.
A woman is defined as an individual that tends to her family by cooking, catering, cleaning and categorized as obedient and fragile. Since the war between genders roles have been immortalized for thousands of years, how does the unfair treatments interfere with nationality? Arabic women are forced to wear hijabs, abayas and niqabs because their spouses does not want them to be seen by anyone Another example can be a growing economic problem that young girls are being forced into a sex trade. However, the unfair treatments goes as far as nationality, it is a trace of history that is not told with a contented ending. It is the veracity of brawls that women face from the past to the present
Depending on the area a woman lived in, they either enjoyed “freedom, though they still grappled with misogyny, or lived in seclusion, often treated worse than slaves. The Umayyad empire treated women worse than slaves, with slaves being able to roam freely in public while women had to be in seclusion and left in rooms away from men. While the Umayyads, treated women as beings who should be separated from the male population, Africa was more liberal with their women and let them roam freely in public. The Muslim population in Africa was shocked to see Africa interpret Islamic law in a flexible manner, instead of following it strictly. In an account from Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta in Mali, Muslim shock to Africa’s interpretation of Islamic law and it’s treatment of women is portrayed, “The condition of these people is strange and their manners outlandish…
Kenneth M. Pollak expresses several reasons which explain the emergence of the uprisings in Understanding the Arab Awakening. Pollak begins by explaining that the main reasons behind the Arab uprisings are the frustrations the people were living initially due to a stagnant economy that underwent no change since its beginning. While other economies were evolving and developing, Arab communities were lagged behind. Pollak continues to claim that another factor that contributed to the lack of development lied in the also stagnant educational system in the Arab countries. The lack of development of any kind of critical thought led Arab countries to remain in the mindset of accepting and internalizing any repressive regime that imposed upon them.
The women are required to follow the laws passed by the people they didn't choose. These countries are led by people who let religious beliefs influence decisions. In many Middle Eastern countries, women don't receive the same education as men. Many women aren't allowed to go to school and pursue their education.
Arabs have many stereotypes that people tend to believe are true. The media is a very powerful tool of communication because it can show us other parts of the world that we normally don’t see on a regular basis. Therefore, people choose what they want to believe and what they want to accept as true
They portray it on American media as if they were all terrorists due to catastrophic events which in the past such as 9/11 (terrorist attack). The arab culture identity is being ruined by american media. (The Revolution Is U.S.). This demonstrates the intensity a culture such as islam has to go through by american stereotyping. This shows the negativity that american cultures is troubling those of other cultures by stereotyping which indeed relates to how america
As women would describe Arabs to be barbaric, treacherous and mistreat women. Men would call Arabs "friendly" by 26.8% while women 14%. Women have low opinion might be because of the concerns of women's freedom and liberation in the Arab world. From Catholics – Protestants point of view, we see that Catholics have a lower overall opinion of Arabs. 52.6% of Catholics would say that Arabs are barbaric and warlike.
The book “Princess” written by Jean Sasson tells the life of ‘Sultana’, (The name of the princess, Sultana is a substitute for her real name due to the dangers she could later face if traced) a Saudi princess bounded by a strict society that she says define women nothing more than a tool to fulfill their sexual desires and bearer of their children. “From an early age, the male child is taught that women are of little value: They exist only for his comfort and convenience” (chapter introduction, princess). This book depicts how even the royal woman are beaten, executed and enslaved by their fathers, sons and husbands. It paints a shady image of the Saudi society in our minds showing the different shadows of grays in a colorful pallet. For example the book tells about a Fillipino woman who had shifted to Saudi Arabia to work as a servant in one of the ‘reputed rich families’, later realizing that her duties also consisted of pleasing the employer and his two sons sexually.
In an attempt to understand humans and how they behave psychologists have developed theories that seek to explain this. Social learning theory fathered by Albert Bandura 1971 proposes that humans learn from each other and from their environment. Bandura believes that children learn from adults –models. Similarly Lawrence Kohlberg in his theory on Moral development seeks to prove this very notion. Pre-convention Morality, Conventional Morality and Post- conventional Morality form the bases of Moral Development Theory.
The Arab World Different people around the world have different standards and personalities. The same thing applies to different cultures in which every culture has its own way in dealing with things. An example of totally two different cultures is the Western culture and the Arab culture. Many differences can be easily recognized between these two different cultures. An author named Edward T. Hall wrote an article that shows how these two cultures behave differently under the same conditions.
In the article, “The Arab World", anthropologist Edward T. Hall discusses how Arabs have a different concept of space and boundary than westerners for public and private places and how this can help explain certain aspects of how Arabs behave. As a renowned anthropologist who has written prolifically and has conceived several important theories in anthropology, Hall is quite qualified to write on the topic of cultural differences and his propositions might be considered extremely credible. Despite possessing such qualifications and writing a well-organized and logical essay, Hall’s arguments in the article are quite lacking because of a biased tone, a lack of evidence, an overreliance on ethos and the use of some logical fallacies. The article basically tries to ascertain how and why Arabs behave differently than people from the west based on “proxemics research”.
