Stereotypes of Central and Western Asians are oversimplified generalisations against people from or with ancestry in Central Asia (including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, etc.) and Western Asia (including Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, etc.). Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a vast landlocked region of Asia. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

Common stereotypes have become more prevalent, especially after 9/11. There have been hate crimes against people of Western Asian origin, who are mostly Muslims.[1] Many people who have Muslim names have also been detained at certain airports.[2] A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... The stylized signature of Sultan Mahmud II of the Ottoman Empire. ...

Central Asia especially the Former Soviet-bloc, is often seen as a backwards region, where everyone lives on subsistence farming, and everyone has strange customs. Recently, Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional reporter from Kazakhstan, has created controversy by taking advantage of Western audiences' lack of knowledge of Kazakhstan by creating false facts about Kazakhstan, that are often dubious in nature ("Throw The Jew Down The Well" being Kazakhstan's national folk song, and him being "Kazakhstan's sixth most popular journalist", for example.) Kazakhstan retaliated against Borat by removing his .Kz Website from the internet.[3] Sacha Noam Baron Cohen[1] (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist from Staines, England) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). ... Borat Sagdiyev is a fictional media figure, created as satire and played by Sacha Baron Cohen. ... Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. ... .kz is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Kazakhstan. ...

Arabs

Main article: Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims

Further information: Anti-Arabism

In his essay "Arabs in Hollywood: An Undeserved Image", Scott J. Simon argues that of all the ethnic groups portrayed in Hollywood films, "Arab culture has been the most misunderstood and supplied with the worst stereotypes". This article discusses the various stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims present in Western societies. ... Anti-Arab Graffiti by Jewish settlers in Gaza Anti-Arabism is prejudice or hostility against Arabs. ... Languages Arabic other minority languages Religions Predomiantly Sunni Islam, as well as Shia Islam, Greek Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Maronite, Alawite Islam, Druze, Ibadi Islam, and Judaism An Arab (Arabic: ) is any member of the Semitic group of people whose cultural, linguistic, and in certain cases, ancestral origins trace back to...

The American media stereotypes Arab Americans and Muslims as billionaires, belly dancers, bombers, and terrorists with little regard for human life, especially in the post-9/11 world.^[1] Many movies feature Arab terrorist villains threatening to blow things up, including Black Sunday and Wanted: Dead or Alive. The stereotypical appearance of such Arabs includes beards and keffiyehs. The stereotype of the Arab billionaire may have its roots in the 1973 oil crisis. Arab women are usually portrayed as exotic belly dancers who are mute, subservient, and repressed. A number of American movies picture the U.S. military killing Arabs, such as Rules of Engagement, Iron Eagle, and Executive Decision. Arab Americans constitute an ethnicity made up of several waves of immigrants from 22 Morocco in the west to Oman in the east. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ... A millionaire is a person who has a net worth or wealth of more than one million United States dollars, euros, UK pounds or units of a comparably valued currency. ... Raqs Sharqi dancer Chryssanthi Sahar Scharf, Heidelberg. ... Terrorist redirects here. ... This article talks about the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. ... This article is about the 1977 US film. ... An Iraqi man wearing a predominantly red keffiyeh in a Charraweyya (جراوية) style. ... At the height of the crisis in the United States, drivers of vehicles with odd numbered license plates were allowed to purchase gasoline only on odd-numbered days of the month, while drivers with even-numbers were limited to even-numbered days. ... The armed forces of the United States of America consist of the United States Army United States Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Coast Guard Note: The United States Coast Guard has both military and law enforcement functions. ... Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American movie starring Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones, directed by William Friedkin. ... Iron Eagle is a 1986 action film about a teenage boy named Doug Masters (Jason Gedrick) who steals an American F-16 fighter jet to rescue his father (Tim Thomerson), a prisoner of war being held in an unidentified rogue Middle Eastern country. ... Executive Decision is a 1996 action film released on Friday, March 15, 1996. ...

The equation of "Arab" and/or "Muslim" with "terrorist" is firmly embedded in Western media, in defiance of the "political correctness" that is frequently alleged by conservatives to permeate what they characterize as the "liberal" and "multicultural" editorial positions of the media. Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ...

Jews

Further information: Antisemitism

Jews are often portrayed as stingy, bickering humorists, over-intellectuals who share exclusive social codes. They also are known to avoid manual labor and deal with large amounts of money and also are very cheap. They are often portrayed as nebbish and often dealing with mother issues; Woody Allen is an example of the Jewish neurotic. More often than not they speak with New York accents even if they do not live there. Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling · Lynching Hate speech · Hate crime · Hate groups Genocide · Holocaust · Pogrom Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing · Race war Religious persecution · Gay bashing Pedophobia · Ephebiphobia Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism · Supremacism Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism · Civil rights LGBT rights Womens/Universal suffrage · Feminism Mens/Fathers rights · Masculinism Children...

Kazakhs

Kazakhstan, once a generally unknown country in the West, has come under recent stereotyping, most notably due to the prominent British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's Da Ali G Show character Borat. Borat is shown to be a crude, backward, misogynist racial Third-Worlder that hates Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals. Borat is often portrayed to be speaking Kazakh, while in reality, he is often speaking Hebrew or Polish. The Kazakhstan government has done everything it could to disassociate itself from Borat, even deleting his .Kz page.[4] Sacha Noam Baron Cohen[1] (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist from Staines, England) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). ... Da Ali G Show was the name of two related satirical TV series starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G. The original (single season) series was made by Channel 4 in the UK, and the second (two season) series by HBO in the US. The... Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat. ... Misogyny is an exaggerated pathological aversion towards women. ... Languages Romani, languages of native region Religions Christianity, Islam Related ethnic groups South Asians (Desi) The Roma (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom) or Romanies are an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world. ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... Kazakh may refer to An ethnic group: the Kazakhs The Kazakh language The Culture of Kazakhstan Suhbat. ... The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ... .kz is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Kazakhstan. ...

Mongols

Mongols are often portrayed as violent, barbarian nomads living in yurts and living off of their plunder and spoils of war. (Charlie's Angels 3) However, it is now true that Mongolia has had considerable impact on China, most notably in its civil institutions.[5] The name Mongols (Mongolian: Mongol) specifies one or several ethnic groups. ... A Yurt is a portable felt dwelling structure used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia. ...

Persians

Further information: Anti-Iranian sentiments

Hollywood movies such as Not Without My Daughter, Alexander and 300 have been accused of portraying Persians in a negative fashion. Roger Ebert wrote: "Not Without My Daughter does not play fair with its Muslim characters. If a movie of such a vitriolic and spiteful nature were to be made in America about any other ethnic group, it would be denounced as racist and prejudiced." A man holding a sign during a protest of the Iranian hostage crisis in Washington, D.C. in 1979. ... ... Movie Poster Not Without My Daughter is a 1990 film based on the story of American Betty Mahmoodys escape, with her young daughter, from her Muslim husband in the Islamic Republic of Iran. ... For other uses, see Alexander (disambiguation). ... Franks penetrate into northern Belgium (approximate date). ... For information about all peoples of Iran, see Demographics of Iran; for Central Asian Persians, see Tajiks. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ...

The film Alexander was accused of negative and inaccurate portrayal of ancient Persians. Reviewers of the film 300 "noted the political overtones of the West-against-Iran story line -- and the way Persians are depicted as decadent, sexually flamboyant and evil in contrast to the noble Greeks." The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the old Persian homeland, and beyond in Western Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus. ... The term Western world or the West (also on rare occasions called the Occident) can have multiple meanings depending on its context (i. ...

Turks

Further information: Anti-Turkism

Turks are often portrayed in media, such as the movie Midnight Express as violent oppressive, nationalists that hate and discriminate against Kurds, Armenians, and Greeks. This may have to do with Turkey's dismal human rights record.[6] Many Kurds are calling for the creation of an independent Kurdistan and Armenians are now calling for reparations[7]. Anti-Turkism (Turkish: Türk Düşmanlığı), Turkophobia, Turcophobia or anti-Turkish sentiment is the hostility towards Turkish people, Turkish culture and the Republic of Turkey. ... Midnight Express is a 1978 biographical film, based on the book of true accounts of Billy Hayes, a young American student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle cannabis out of Turkey to the US. However, it should be noted that the movie deviates from the books... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... Human rights are rights which some hold to be inalienable and belonging to all humans. ... Kurdistan (Soranî: كوردستان, literally meaning the land of Kurds[2]; Ancient: Corduene, old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia, also Kurdish: ) is the name of a geographic and cultural region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds. ...

Turkish people are usually portrayed as intelligent gunmen who have underground terror/mafia function. Keyser Soze from Usual Suspects and Habib Marwan from 24 (TV series) are among popular Turkish people in American Stereotype of Turkish. Mehmet Oz who had a TV-show in Discovery Channel broke this stereotype with his doctor uniform. Languages Turkish Religions Muslim or nominally Muslim, predominantly Sunni Islam, followed by Alevis. ... Keyser Soze (pronounced KAI-zer SHOW-zay) is a fictional character in the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie. ... The Usual Suspects, a 1995 American movie, stars Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro and Kevin Pollak. ... Habib Marwan is a fictional character played by Arnold Vosloo on the television show 24 and main villain of Season 4. ... 24 is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and produced by Imagine Television. ... Mehmet Öz is a Turkish-American surgeon and cardiologist. ... Discovery Channel is a cable and satellite TV channel distributed by Discovery Communications that provides non-fiction variety programming focused primarily on the themes of popular science, history, and knowledge about the world. ...

External links

• Asian-Nation: Anti-Asian Prejudice & Racism