Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Just a few misconceptions

Something that I noticed about the film was they way each of the two families was portrayed (Muslim family vs. Jewish family). One thing that really bothered me about this was the way each of the families were two extremes. On one hand we have a very understanding and even accepting family of Muslims, on the other we have an overly strict and prejudice Jewish family. I guess I just feel that there are some families of Jews (orthodox or not) that CAN be accepting and understanding of others and at the same time, there are probably plenty of Muslims out there that are not as lenient with there families and might shun them for hanging out with people that are not Muslims. In the end, I feel that these issues or extremes kind of distracted a little bit from what really happens in each of these cultures, I think it would have been nice to maybe see more than one family from each background or something a little less extreme from each.

3 comments:

  1. I thought the exact same thing. I am glad you said something!!

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  2. Agreed, I thought the movie was just using extreme stereotypes to skew viewer opinions about these cultures.

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  3. I also think your comment makes sense -- I think I should talk about the film in the book and something from your blog post would be good to include also.

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