European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Arab americans Battle ethnic slurs by David k. Shipler new York tombs a Washington real estate and picture san excited Arab sheikh Wilh Dollar signs on his dark glasses. The message reads is Washington for sala7"on a billboard in Pennsylvania an Arab stares in apparent dismay at an Oil company s Low prices. The phantom a newspaper comic strip tails a tale of Abu the magician Payl nil Gold Tor an attract live woman slave. In a Mola arabs plot to kill spectators at tie super bowl football game. In a film for children an Arab on a sinking ship steals a boy 5 Lite jacket. A thesaurus lists tramp vagrant and huckster among the synonyms Lor  a postcard shows a Man chasing an Arab under the words fight High Oil prices Mug an Arab today a popular song called Abu Dahabi includes these lyrics we always Bathe and we re learning to shave but you still Don t treat us  thai Are few of the thousands of offensive caricatures and stereotypes of areas that have found their Way into the files of the american Arab Anil discrimination committee a washing Lon based organization devoted of combating the repugnant images of arabs thai it says pervade american life. The stereotypes derive Bolh from current events and traditional slurs the terrorism thai has Grewn out of the Middle East conflict such As the recent Airport bombings in Rome and Vienna has reinforce re the portrayal of arabs As violent. The sleep rises in Oil prices that began in the 1970s fostered the notion of arabs As Rich and greedy. And 19th-Cenlury images remain prominent in pictures of arabs As primitive keepers of harems. The Anli  committee which also issues statements on the Arab israeli conflict. Haiim been the target of numerous threats and three Vlot enl attacks in 1985, including a pipe bomb that wounded two Boston police officers a bomb that killed a committee official in California and a tire the Washington offices. William h. Webster director of tote Federal but duo investigation said in december that Arab americana had entered a zone of danger from an unspecified group target Long enemies of  the . Tvs rights commission has scheduled hearings in february on concerns Over violations of the rights of Arab americans. Ii seems like every Lime a scr pm writer runs Oul of original ideas which is quite frequent nowadays thy asian is. Asian currents c racial Anlu Keilty it a problem in Alia. Page the stars and stripes by Barbara Crossette new York times All him Paul. He was born in Singapore about 7,0 years ago to a filipino Lafharo and a chinese Molfar. He has always Felt to percent singaporean and never thought much about race he said until he Al sled India with an English Mirlend. Everywhere we  he said Heyl sealed me tone his servant. Said in them my skin is Brown like yours. Why do you do ihistome7 " a High caste Bengali intellectual in Calcutta said we were Lucky the British were prejudiced colonizers Al there had been Mere intermarriage it would have destroyed the purity of our race and culture not  and a thai teacher interrupts a student Descul blog Montana Outing a language exercise so they Are not so dark As africans the teacher says. That s Good. We Don l like Black skin Atlandi take Pride in avoiding conflict and rejecting institutionalized Bias. But complicated currents of racial ethnic and Celluia animosity How beneath the surface carrying an assortment o color prejudice nationalist conflicts and religious animosity. Occasionally events or movements plumb these undercurrents wih unsettling even violent results. Two such actors some believe May be islamic radicalism find the rapid opening of China. The islamic revival has stirred Only limited repercussions although a worried Malaysia is hastening to improve the fortunes of ethnic malays most of them moslem. China s economic Takoff May have wider effects. Neg hours ask a peking with the help of overseas chinese will steamroller fragile economies thai Are trying to make room Lor indigenous Peoples. Overseas chinese Lor their part wonder 11 the anxieties implicit in such questioning could make their position More precarious. Chinese imperialism has been Leared in Southeast Asia and the Pacific lot centuries and chinese minorities have Long had to fend Oil accusations of local disloyalty. The fears intensified after the 1949 communist Rev Oguilon when overseas chinese with peking s help supported guerrilla wars throughout the Region. After the insurgencies in dec in the 1970s, diplomatic relations with peking improved but overseas chinese communities remained in jeopardy. In Indonesia thousands of ethnic chinese were slaughtered by death squads after the 1966 communist coup attempt. The chinese language is still banned in Vietnam although peking helped the communists to Victory ethnic chinese say they have since been forced to flee discrimination and compulsory relocation. In Malaysia chinese political and economic Power has been curbed by Law and practice we sort of have to laugh at our prime minister going to Commonwealth meetings to attack South Africa or apartheid said an ethnic chinese mining official in Kuala Bumpur. Here my identity card tells everyone am chinese and throughout the Region chinese Are caricatured As compulsive workers and Are blamed 1or drug dealing prostitution and gambling. The Chine Ean the Moat visible minority but Many smaller ethnic communities Atso resent their treatment. 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