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The majority of our media diet on the subject of the Middle Eastern world consists of pictures of terrorists, irate fundamentalist Muslims who despise the West, and raped, abused women. Those who don’t seek other sources of real life information on the subject are left to assume that these things define the existence of Middle Easterners. It’s too bad. That said, I don’t think there are many people who seriously think that everyone in Egypt rides a camel to work, etc. We regularly see pictures of modern cities in the Middle East. I hate to say it, but a lot of those pictures came from when the United States carpet-bombed the hell out of Baghdad. A lot of people were glued to their TV sets and could see that it was just a regular city, not a big lump of mosques and picturesque minarets with the occasional camel wandering in search of an oasis. People here are gradually coming to understand that there may be more to the picture of that area of the world than has been shown to the general public. As for what race Americans use to label Middle Easterners, I think the closest I can come is to say white, but with some differences from the European that is the norm for whites in the U.S.
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Name : Jessica, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 25, City : Minneapolis, State : MN, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I don’t agree with the assessment that white people laugh at Indian-accented English because they are uncomfortable. Indian-accented English is clipped, and if the accent is thick, hard for people unfamiliar with it to understand, true. But also, apart from the actual pronunciation of words, Indians tend to use voice inflections and emphases in their speech that native speakers of English use as humor cues in their day-to-day speech. While I think most native English speakers understand that this isn’t intentionally done, it still is humorous. Personally, I would think it very tiresome to have people constantly finding humor in serious (or even just mundane) things I was trying to say, and it’s rude to laugh at anyone’s accent, period, but there is a cause for this phenomenon other than cruelty or discomfort.
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Name : Jessica, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Agnostic, Age : 25, City : Minneapolis, State : MN, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,
