Budget creates havoc at Lowell - The Lowell

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BySiizyAou-ni6
"Oh, I come fron,
From a faraway place
IV/tor the caravan camels roam
\;gqffyoureaT
^•.^rifilf 'they don't like yourface
:'i.;. ;'•'.',/fVbarlwric. but hey it's home."
'. • -cThii.is a typical stereotype of the
.^Arab culture.
People use nicial slurs and ethnic
.-'-stCftolygcii without ever thinking
• abo'tit how h will d image a culture
'-.rr/ahd.liurt people.
• .-Take fa: example Disney's ani-
;;rnaled extravaganza, Aladdin. The
fbuith arid fifth linen of the opening
.;;»rig,reprinted above, were so ofTeri--"'
yavcto'Arabs that liy the OctobcrlWS'
home video release the American*
Arab An;i«Discrimination Committee
{ADC) won an agreement from
the Walt. Disnc7 Company to change
. these lines (o"\Vhcrc it's flat and im-
' memc: And Ac heat is intcriae.";'
According to the ADC Times, despite
the five-montl. legci! ^»1it that
_ produced the change, the wurd - liar-
'•' boric"in iVAixthlincrcmiurtcd.Thc
Disney Company refused to remove
the word, chiming thai they "have a
responsibility toprcscrve the integrity
of [the late IjritiM Howard Ashman's)
- work." AH the 1 good characters,
Aladdin.PrincessJasmincandhcrfsther.talk
Hice Americans while the
other Arab.characters have heavy
By Keith Clion and
Arthur Murakami
_.^STIIESCENE:We'reat
the b-bntl courts, and a
bunch of gup arc picking
teams lor some thrce-on-three action.
Guas who gets picked first?
•:/ v Yu[>, it's the Shaq look-nlikrt.
What's the deal here? Why dues
. society favor tall guysiFor example,
whyarethcbaskeiballboopssodanin
higWThensultisallthetallguysmob
. thekcy,shovnngo(Tsp4'Ctacul.irlO-
: o'cldcfc.-news dunk? while all the
, = short guys have to fire away from
three-point land.
In fi^btball. who arc the best wide
• receiver^? There's )crr>'Rice, Michael
, Inin.JohnTaylo^AndreRison.Stcr-
•".' '• ling Shin pe. and so on. And what do
,;;; ; they all have in common? They're all
:• much taller than thelcornerbacks
/ "• ^ajdingihein for the very important
."]' reach advantage. For example. Alvin
•'.••'Harper (6'.1") always Joes well against
,;..- the'Nincrsbecause the Miners guard
"" >•' him with 5'9" Eiii. D&\ is.
,'.' Sports arc just one proof ol
"society's bias aguiwt thestx-fcet-amlunder
crowd. The 'alt people are
- given the highe>l positions in this
, country while the shnn folks live in
j^Sv'mediocmy. Who's thegrcatcsi prc?ii-
': %*• .'dent of the United States? Abraham
* : mtmen fantasizing about him.
V^Spiakingbf^vomen'sprctcrcnces,
Kiel's take a poll. How many lemale
_.._wic3'krs would go out with Woody
i}F&\Allen iiMti-adof Denzd W.ibiiingwn'r
! '• "^Nqt to leave all tho male readers out.
bud guy. Thai was Iwrn from a long
tradition of competition Iwt-.vccn European
and Middle Eastern societies
ovei trad.»;ofiini:ltcd
by someone old
difk'it'Ml tiaiion.ility.
furthinptodiiwiihiitc main ploi. they
di.it; in :i najity Ar.il* villain or iw>ctis on
p-
Atii'*iu'.in aninor of -The Prophet,
Kh.ilit Gib ran.
like any
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