Arabian Nights video

This video was made by correu30 and can be found here

This is from Aladin. Make sure to listen for the lyrics of "Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face. It's barbaric, but hey, it's home!" How does this represent the Arab culture and society?

We asked the Junior High what they thought about this specific quote, and here are all of the responses we received:


This makes kids believe that people from the Middle East are all barbaric.

This does create a very bad stereotype that all Arabs are barbaric people which is not true.

I think that for the most part, this is overanalyzing the the quote. If "Arabian Nights" was written by someone from the Middle East, it might not be the best representation of Arab culture, but it's what the author knows. I think the bigger point is loving your own culture even with its faults.

This person brings up a very interesting point of stereotypes being all the author knows. They may not intentionally be representing people in a bad way, but maybe that's all they know the culture to be. Maybe the solution to this is a more diverse industry.

It makes people think all Arabs are violent barbarians, which they are NOT! This is where the stereotypes come from: movies everyone sees.

What do you think about this quote?