Stereotyping
The Veil
Many great writers like Sen and Satrapi have written about how the people are victims of stereotyping. Where they are automatically classified into a class or rank by others viewing them as the people subjected to in particular stereotypes. However I have come to learn through the autobiography of Satrapi The Veil that Iranian women were forced to wear the veil at all times, when many did not support the idea. This intriguing text has been brought to my attention because I thought I strongly anti supported any types of stereotypes against Islamic and Arab culture. However not knowing that I was a victim of stereotyping my whole life where I have been fed with ideas from the news, media, and people about different types of cultures without even knowing it. As I personally believed that Iranian women were joyful with this Islamic Revolution as it saved the lives of many, neglecting the fact that this extreme regime enforced its rules on its people. Therefore I have come to learn that people are always victims of stereotyping whether they are talking about a certain group or being talked about with no hard factual evidence.
Although alienated in an enclosed society in Iran the author Satrapi was able to disapprove through picture animated text the numerous stereotypes that faced her country. In the picture animated text of the veil the author comes about two childhood ideas one based on not accepting an enforced extremist idea and the other of a misunderstood fate. As a child the author goes on to explain how the new regime of the Islamic Revolution forced her to wear a veil in all public places which she personally did not accept. Through this idea we can understand that the public was not used to the fact of wearing the veil as it was enforced upon them, as she goes on to prove that idea by drawing pictures of little school girls throwing their veils on the ground since they misinterpreted the idea. She also states in her text: “Everywhere in the
Many great writers like Sen and Satrapi have written about how the people are victims of stereotyping. Where they are automatically classified into a class or rank by others viewing them as the people subjected to in particular stereotypes. However I have come to learn through the autobiography of Satrapi The Veil that Iranian women were forced to wear the veil at all times, when many did not support the idea. This intriguing text has been brought to my attention because I thought I strongly anti supported any types of stereotypes against Islamic and Arab culture. However not knowing that I was a victim of stereotyping my whole life where I have been fed with ideas from the news, media, and people about different types of cultures without even knowing it. As I personally believed that Iranian women were joyful with this Islamic Revolution as it saved the lives of many, neglecting the fact that this extreme regime enforced its rules on its people. Therefore I have come to learn that people are always victims of stereotyping whether they are talking about a certain group or being talked about with no hard factual evidence.
Although alienated in an enclosed society in Iran the author Satrapi was able to disapprove through picture animated text the numerous stereotypes that faced her country. In the picture animated text of the veil the author comes about two childhood ideas one based on not accepting an enforced extremist idea and the other of a misunderstood fate. As a child the author goes on to explain how the new regime of the Islamic Revolution forced her to wear a veil in all public places which she personally did not accept. Through this idea we can understand that the public was not used to the fact of wearing the veil as it was enforced upon them, as she goes on to prove that idea by drawing pictures of little school girls throwing their veils on the ground since they misinterpreted the idea. She also states in her text: “Everywhere in the
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