well..

Myself as well, does not know much about the Arab culture. But, I do think that peoples views and thoughts have not changed too much, by comparing the two pictures. In the first picture, they are all dressed in white, it's plain and boring. They are outside... and the guy in the middle getting ready to fight is in all black. In the bottom picture, they are inside a palace, all decked out in different colors and forms. Both are similar and different. It seems that the newest picture, it's obvious that Hollywood knew (a little) more about the Arab Culture than they did twenty years ago. Something that I find quite interesting, is that there are NO women in either picture. (Maybe there is in the top one with them dressed in all white, but I highly doubt it, and I know I looked rather closely.) Why is it that the two pictures are still so similar though.... with a twenty year difference? If you took a picture from twenty years ago from a movie that took place in America, and then one twenty years after from a movie that took place in America, they would look completely different. Is it because we just do not know? Or because their culture has not changed? OR because we want to believe that their culture does not change? I believe that depends on who has actually put it all together. We are out of their context. We do not know exactly, except for what we can read about or watch about. AND, Corte's blog...his idea on stereotypes pretty much sums up it as well. We only know what is different to us...