Friday, 15 August 2008

• Currently Listening Black Holes and Revelations By Muse Starlight see related

  Famous Arabs...

  This topic has been on my mind for some time now..why arent there any famous Arabs? Technically, there are a few but none are famous for good reasons. For instance, everyone in the entire world nows of Bin Laden or Saddam Huessin but neither of those scumbags is famous in a postive way. In fact they only hurt the fragile image of Arabs. For sometime I've been fascinated by how Arabs are obsessed with famous people like Shakira because shes half-Lebanese or Salma Hayek because she's also half-Lebanese but Arabs fail to see that NEITHER Shakira nor Salma Hayek ever admits to being Lebanese. So who gives a crap, if they have Arab blood?

  

  I decided to do a google search to see if there were any famous Arabs and I found this page on wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_Americans

  And once again, NOBODY on that list of "Performers" has ever mentioned their Arab heritage. Well..nobody but Tony Shalhoub. :) Too bad his show is boring as hell.

  I guess no one wants to be Arab...and most of the time I dont blame them for hiding the fact that they're Arab. I doubt that Salma Hayek or Shakira would have made it in Hollywood if they said they were Arabs.

  Speaking of Hollywood, I recently saw that movie "You Dont Mess With the Zohan" by Adam Sandler...It was a typical Sandler movie..lots of crude jokes etc..etc.. and of course the Israelis looked cool, sophisticated, and compassionate while the Arabs were goat-herding/loving savages. But I will admit, this movie was somewhat nicer to Arabs then other Hollywood movies. At least in this movie, the Arabs in New York are portrayed as semi-normal....Sandler's character even falls in love with a Palestinan and marrys her.

  

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• Currently Listening Spirit By Leona Lewis see related

  My first blog EVER.

  I just started my summer vacation and I decided to set up a blog because I’ve always wanted to but never had the time to …so YAAAY I set one up..:)

  So far I think I want to use this blog to release all the crazy thoughts that run through my head so I’ll probably rant/cover a number of different topics…

  :)

  I turned 20 last month wooooooooohooooooooooooooo!!!! NOT. It feels exactly like 18 and 19. *shrug. I guess life doesn’t get interestin’ till people turn 30. I’m a college student, I’m majoring in political science/philosophy…I was born in southern Iraq but I was raised here in the U.S….I’m obsessed with Prison Break and One Tree Hill so I CANT WAIT until they both premiere next month. Wentworth miller is officially the hottest man alive.

  

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• Hola. I'm 20, Iraqi, raised in the beautiful city of Seattle. I'm majoring in political science/philosophy with big hopes of becoming a lawyer.

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