Racial Discrimination In Egyptian-American Films

First and foremost, the racial discrimination that is often seen in both movies and many TV shows. Racial discrimination is not something that every individual is born with. Many individuals, even those of high social standards or are of high influence in society just naturally become racist unintentionally. Those individuals may also feel that they are inferior to other individuals, mainly because of how they are raised or of how the media portrays that certain individuals fall into certain categories. It is certainly very depressing that this is how society works nowadays, more so that the individuals that live in this society just go along with this corrupted society. An example of how even individuals that have high social standings neglect

In film school, there was this need to talk about your ethnicity and to make essentially social-message films. But I resisted, because I felt that it changed the conversation of what the movie was about” (Sam Esmeal.). Sam Esmeal resisted, meaning that although he could have just gone along with what he was told, he refused to cooperate because he felt that it was “weird”, so apparently it is “weird” to have diversity in flims. This is a great example of how an individual with a high social standard unintentionally discriminated another race, just because of how he was raised. Ironically, he thinks that casting a Egyptian-American as the lead is strange, even though he is an Egyptian-American himself. Moving on, since the very beginning, racism has been targeted towards minority groups, so since a large mass of the people harassing the minority groups slowly increased as time went on. As time went on, harassers and harassees started adapting to this dark and corrupted society, people started becoming desensitized to this harassment and then began seeing it as a normal thing, since it happens so often in