Dixie: Bakery Discrimination Against Muslims

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Dixie: I choose to watch bakery discrimination against Muslims.The video should us a Muslim lady that wanted to make a purchase from the American bakery. The worker denied her the right to purchase from the American bakery. In our textbook on page 243 in the opening paragraph, it says Within each group in significant diversity that can be seen by differences in forms of religious expression, ancestral background, and how recently they arrived in the United States. Both groups have been seen and stereotyped in the West through the lens of orientalism.
I feel that we covered religious pluralism in chapter 5 on page 128 and this information ties to the video. When the guys say that he said the lady why don’t dress like an American citizen the

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