I am dating an Egyptian Arab and pretty much everyone I talk to about him freaks out because he is Arab. What is the big deal??? Why in 2007 do we still have such stereotypes? I have been told he will use me and leave me as soon as he can. I feel true love for him. So I am wondering, can you all correct my thinking in this. Why do people not like Arabs?
2007-01-27 14:32:59 · 13 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Perhaps one of the reasons that you were told he would use you and leave you as soon as he can is the thinking that he may use you to get a Green Card or permanent residency if he is not a citizen already.
(I am assuming that you are in the United States.) Many immigrants do that, and marry someone just to obtain legal residency.
My husband and I went through similar circumstances, because he is Iranian. Although we didn't marry for that reason, we had to go through many of the same biased comments and slurs, because people assumed wrongly that he only married me to get his Green Card.
I had people ask me how I could "stoop so low" as to marry an Arab, even though he was Iranian! "They are all the same" was the reply!! How stupid and misinformed, which is obviously a big trait of the bigoted!
Middle Eastern cultures do have bad reputations as being behind the times in women's rights, and in civil rights, and it is hard for Western cultures to understand cultures other than their own.
It's sad, but not likely to change any time soon.
2007-01-27 14:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by luvmelodio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm thinking this all started after 9-11 with the Arabs. Most people started stereotyping by thinking that all Arabs were Islamic extremists when in fact not all Muslims are extremists, not all Arabs are Muslim and not all Muslims are Arabs. When things like this happen, people seem to throw common sense and acceptance out the window to give way to fear and paranoia. It happens all over the world though, not just here in the US.
2007-01-27 23:02:48 · answer #2 · answered by vin 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Its unfortunate that ine person is tarred with the sins of the majority and throughout history.
Arabs were slave traders, they sold black women children and anyone they could into slavery for money.
Arabs were pirates who robbed sunk and plundered
Arabs thieved from their own and believed that all property was common, especially if they were poor and the other was rich.
They have treated women as second class citizens, stoned them to death if they rejected the man chosen to be their husband. They murdered their woman if sahe failed to produce a son. They take more than one wife in some regions still and it is not against the law.
It is easy for an Arab to divorce his wife than a wife to divorce her husband.
They have been considered bandits, thieves, muderers, liars, cheats throughout history and by all races who have ever dealt with them.
They are also Iraquis, Iranians, Afgahani's Egyptians, Syrians Lebanese and at the moment all of these countries are killing each other for power in the name of their God.
So once you have that to cosnsider then you will see why no one trusts an Arab.
Yours may be be an exception to the stereotype but who really knows.. I would trust their women more than I would trust their men
2007-01-27 22:49:47 · answer #3 · answered by Shelty K 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Recently I went to an Arab dentist and he was the best I ever had. He was very soothing to someone who was afraid of dental work. Why on earth would anyone not like them?
2007-01-27 22:39:21 · answer #4 · answered by Brigid O' Somebody 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's nice that you love him. But have you learned about his religion?
It has a few principles that he may want to carry out on you:
Death for apostasy:
Quran Sura 4:89: "They but wish that ye should reject Faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing (as they): But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah (From what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them; and (in any case) take no friends or helpers from their ranks.”
Kill Disbelievers in a cruel fashion:
Quran Sura 5:33: "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they will have an awful doom."
Slit throats of unbelievers:
Quran Sura 47:4:
Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, smite at their necks; until when you have overcome them, bind a bond firmly (on them): thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens. Thus (are ye commanded): but if it had been Allah's Will, He could certainly have exacted retribution from them (Himself); but (He lets you fight) in order to test you, some with others. But those who are slain in the Way of Allah,- He will never let their deeds be lost.
2007-01-30 13:23:31 · answer #5 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
those people are racist ignore them racist people freak out over stupid stuff. u love him so who cares what other people think of him people always have something negative 2 say. girl any guy can use u. people are just trying to brainwash u and let u leave him. dont be suprise because when u date out ur race people wanna talk crap to u. i dated out my race and people told me my boyfriend will use me only for sex and he will marry his own kind and that wasnt evenn true. everyone get use at some point. ignore stupid people and just live ur life.
2007-01-27 23:58:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh really? people don't like us? oh my God, i think im going to cry...
You must be some of these ignorant and stupid americans who don't know **** about world, have you ever been out of U.S? most people around world hate americans, even more than arabs. so now i ask you, why do people not like them?
2007-01-29 20:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by jereissati1985 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that people don't like the arabs. It's the way they treat their own women. Just make sure you stay here in the U.S.A and you won't have that much to worry about. They can be abusive, but so can any race of abusive men.
2007-01-27 23:05:04 · answer #8 · answered by LENA 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They are Racist thats why... there was a time where African Americans were not accepted as equals in America but it has changed now... Hopefully it can changed across the whole world with all races... but equality is a pain in the ****.
2007-01-27 22:38:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are the new people to hate.
My parents said, it was Japanese in WW II.
In the 60's, anyone who looked Vietemese.
Then it was Cubans.
Now Arabs.
What is next? The British?
2007-01-27 22:43:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋