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It's kind of sad that if someone were to ask me what I thought Arabia looked like, something like these images would pop into my head. But it's not my fault. Movies like Lawrence of Arabia are all the exposure that I have ever to it. Like that one painting from a long time ago where there are a bunch of men sitting around a beautiful Middle-eastern women wearing a lacey next-to-nothing outfit doing a belly dance, or a lot of the covers of National Geographic show the women too. They are always very colorful and look sad trying to show how terrible it is to be a woman there.
I'd hate to say it though, but we would be much more stupid if the generalizations of the world got taken away. It touches on something that we would have no idea about otherwise. If you signed up for a feminism class and thought that the room would be full of humor and both genders, you'd probably be wrong. It's also easy for people to make generalizations about art school. People think art school isn't school at all, but rather we sit around and smoke weed all day and sit outside with our guitars and occasionally get up to play frisbee.
In the movies however of the Middle-east, they are always so dark and mysterious. I'm sure that's not it at all. But until the day that I go over there, this is all I have to go off of. This and The Jungle Book. I don't think we should just get rid of The Jungle Book just because it generalizes and depicts that culture through an American lense, I would just hope that people wouldn't take it to heart, so to say. Like what we talked about in class, if people over there were given tapes of Leave it to Beaver and Saved by the Bell, what would they think about us?