Ethnographic

We as a people Since September 11th Arab Americans have been treated differently. We as a community have fallen to inferior to the rest of the American population. It forces you to think if history will repeat itself. It forces you to think if the events of the 1940’s will soon become a present reality. What are Arab-Americans supposed to do in a situation like this? We are also in a situation in which we …

…bothered me a lot. This man was a literate and well- spoken African-American man. He said, “ Now they will get a feeling of how it feels like to be us.” I was bothered that in America today we are still being put into categories and judged upon the nature of our skin, language and religion. That the barriers of racism and religious discrimination are still being built in our society rather than be broken down.