DANA's Appendix D
United States-Centric Views Comparison
Consider this question: What are an
average American’s
perceptions about Muslim/Arab American and
Christian American groups?
Copy each descriptor from the paragraph below and paste it into the table according to how you think
an average American
would categorize the descriptor. Would each descriptor best apply to Christian
Americans only, Muslim and Arab Americans only, or to both groups? In organizing this information,
you are conveying what you think most Americans perceive about these groups, so there are no “right”
answers. In fact, your table categorizations may be markedly different from what you personally
believe is true.
Descriptors
Good neighbors, family oriented, oppressive to women, not oppressive to women, women as
homemakers, women who go to work, patriarchal society, modest dress, immodest dress, well
educated, undereducated, religious content in education, secular content in education, devout, law
abiding, conservative political values, moderate political values, governed by Biblical law, governed by
the Qur’an, fanatically religious, religious values perpetuated in politics, religion part of government,
male-dominated political environment, political environment open to both sexes, violent, peaceable,
socially exclusionary, socially inclusive, socially oppressed, socially compliant, sexist, feminist, strict
moral values, moderate moral values, flexible moral values
Table
Christian Americans
Both Groups
Muslim and Arab
Americans
Not oppressive to women,
women who go to work,
immodest dress, well
educated, secular content
in education, moderate
political values, governed
by the Biblical law,
political environment open
to both sexes, socially
inclusive, socially
compliant, moderate or
flexible moral values
Good neighbors, family
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- Spring '09
- Henrik
- Sociology, moral values, good neighbors
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