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Examples Of Orientalism In Arab Labor
Edward Said’s orientalism is a way of seeing middle east countries that emphasizes and distorts the differences of Arab cultures and their people compared to Europe and the U.S. When watching Arab Labor there is a sense of a cultural divide between the Palestinians and the Jewish population against Europe and U.S. Some of the characters are very stereotypical of what people think of when talking about Palestinians. One of the examples that is orientalist is the portrayal of the Alian family’s mechanic who is this lying manipulative Palestinian who steals and rips people off for his personal gain. This is one aspect of Arab Labor that would put Arab Palestinians in an Orientalist light. If the Mechanic Wasn’t Palestinian and wasn’t so uncivilized
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