... engineers, doctors or schoolteachers. This is in contrast to the reality of successful Arab women such as Abdel Baki, a specialist in conflict resolution who graduated from Harvard and speaks five languages fluently (Wilkins, 2009; 56). Additionally, Arab men are portrayed as sleazy, dim-witted and villainess who prey on fair complexioned, virginal Western women (Wilkins, 2009; 58). However, as a result of ... and racial group suffer (Shaheen, 2009; 64). For example, these representations of Arab identities echo the way those of Jewish faith were negatively represented in Nazi propagand...

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... Hebrew and the initial rejection of Yiddish, European white culture naturally carried over into the settlement of Israel since most settlers were indeed white Europeans. Since Yiddish and other European languages were part of that culture, they were tolerated much more readily than the Arabic spoken by the Arab Jews. The "cosmopolitan- culture that the Zionists claimed to be after was ... wouldn't easily be overcome. This issue became especially important after WWII when European Jewry had a sudden down-slope in population and the Zionists were forced to appeal to Asian and African Jewi...

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