For example, when filmmakers characterize Arabs in the movies they always portrayed them in a wrong and unrealistic way. They show that Arabs live in the dessert, wear old and weird clothes, and uneducated. Therefore, people believed what they saw in the movies.
However, the problem in the three cases is generalization. In Meddle East we do have terrorist, but not everybody in Meddle East is a terrorist. Moreover, we do have poverty, literacy, and rich people; but not in the way that people think. The goal of building a contact zone and King Abdullah program is to teach people about the different paths of people in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia especially and why people should never hear one side of the story and believe it.
The program
However, the problem in the three cases is generalization. In Meddle East we do have terrorist, but not everybody in Meddle East is a terrorist. Moreover, we do have poverty, literacy, and rich people; but not in the way that people think. The goal of building a contact zone and King Abdullah program is to teach people about the different paths of people in the Middle East and Saudi Arabia especially and why people should never hear one side of the story and believe it.
The program