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- Jordan queen seeks to tackle stereotypes through YouTube
- AMMAN AFP — Jordan's Queen Rania has launched her own Internet channel on YouTube in a bid to encourage young people to help tackle stereotypes of Muslims and Arabs, her office said on Tuesday. "In a world where it's so easy to connect to one another, we still remain...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- French film 'Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis' takes box office by storm
- PARIS AFP — A French comedy debunking stereotypes about the country's bleak north is breaking box office records, becoming the second biggest all-time hit in cinemas, Pathe film distributors said Tuesday. "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis" has pulled in 14.6 million viewers since it was released on February 27, overtaking...
- Research articles 2008-03-25
- UN 'civilization' forum announces 100-million-dollar film fund
- MADRID AFP — Representatives of some 60 countries wind up a UN forum Wednesday after announcing initiatives to bridge cultural divides, including a 100-million-dollar fund to finance major film productions that combat "ugly stereotypes." The Alliance of Civilizations Forum aims to "contribute to isolating extremist and intolerant discourses on...
- Research articles 2008-01-15
- Japanese international female students' experience of discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes
- This qualitative study examined four Japanese international female college students' experience of discrimination, prejudice, and stereotypes in a predominately white university. Four themes emerged from the analysis of data: (1) overt forms of prejudice and discrimination; (2) stereotypes common to Asians; (3) stereotypes unique to the Japanese; and (4) coping...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Stars of South Asian descent are on the ascent
- It's not just Apu anymore. After years of relative anonymity, performers of Indian heritage are establishing a small but growing presence in TV and film, breaking stereotypes along the way. From Sanjaya Malakar of American Idol to actors on some of TV's most popular shows, U.S....
- Research articles 2007-04-09
- Supplements go to college: a textbook case for nutrients
- It's hard to avoid stereotypes when it comes to the 18-to-24 age group of college students and their peers. Alas, most of the stereotypes are true, at least when it comes to health.They don't eat right, exercise enough or get enough sleep. Depending on the time of day, they drink...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Unexpected results in survey on religious beliefs and identity
- An ambitious Baylor University survey on religious identity and beliefs has found, contrary to some expectations, a smaller percentage of people with "no religion" and fewer people who prefer to be called "evangelicals." It also punctured stereotypes about the faith of political liberals and conservatives. The first wave of...
- Research articles 2006-10-03
- Bad for both boys and girls
- This summer, after receiving a complaint from parents told they faced a mandatory sex-segregated educational program at a public school in Livingston Parish, La., the ACLU filed a lawsuit and the school board quickly withdrew the plan. This was an exciting victory, but unfortunately, the Livingston school is not unique....
- Research articles 2006-08-17
- Elders' stereotypes predict hearing decline.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 March 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: Elders' stereotypes predict hearing declineC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01032006 New Haven, Conn. - Older people who have negative stereotypes about the elderly have a greater chance of hearing decline, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report...
- Research articles 2006-03-02
- Secular bombers.(criminal psychology)(Brief article)
- Robert Pape has examined every act of suicide terrorism over the past 25 years. The University of Chicago professor refutes the assumption that suicide bombers are primarily motivated by "an evil ideology independent of other circumstances." "The facts are that few of the terrorists fit the...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Tough rehab for Firewater Fibs.(Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations)(Book review)
- Fighting Firewater Fictions: Moving Beyond the Disease Model of Alcoholism in First Nations By Richard W. Thatcher University of Toronto Press, 2004 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For a teacher of Native Studies Thatcher's book represents...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Britons think French deserve their 'negative stereotype': poll
- LONDON AFP — Eighty-six percent of people in Britain aged 18 to 30 think the French deserve "a popular negative stereotype," suggests an opinion poll conducted for an Anglo-French art show in London. That compares to 27 percent of like-aged people in France who felt the British held a...
- Research articles 2005-10-31
- We should all learn from this controversy
- Fisher DeBerry, in his own silly way, did us a favor. He showed us how easy it is to slip into stupidity when talking about race. He showed us how even an honorable man can fall on his face and play the fool when...
- Research articles 2005-10-27
- Controversial politician urges Dutch to be more curious about other cultures
- AMSTERDAM AFP — Somali-born liberal Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, known for her outspoken criticism of Islam, called on the Dutch to show more curiosity about other cultures in their own country to dispel stereotypes. "Stereotypes now prevail. Segregation means stereotypes will remain. You need to have...
- Research articles 2005-09-05
- Having it all.(trendsetters[TM]: Builders and Developers)(Lissette Calderon)(Brief Article)(Biography)
- Lissette Calderon raves about Coral Gables High School, her alma mater. Gables High, she says, was that rare place where a girl could be senior class president and prom queen. "They taught me about being the kind of person I wanted to be," she says. "It allowed...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
- Canadian Entertainment at a Glance.
- Winnipeg, MB, Jan 28, 2005 Resource News International via COMTEX ALANIS TURNS HOSER FOR 'DEGRASSI' SPOT Alanis Morissette has an outrageous cameo in an upcoming episode of CTV's Degrassi: Next Generation where she spews Canadian stereotypes and makes out with Jay and Silent Bob...
- Research articles 2005-01-30
- Islam: a Mosaic, Not a Monolith.(Book Review)
- Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith. By Vartan Gregorian. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 2003.164 pp. $19.95 ($12.95, paper). Gregorian's survey of contemporary Islam is well intentioned and disheartening. Its introduction announces that "there is a disconnect between our passions about Islam and...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Owens duped, ABC succeeded and the kids lost
- The nuclear fallout from the Terrell Owens-Nicollette Sheridan faux locker room sex romp reaffirms a critical societal shortcoming, one that can't merely be ascribed to corporate greed in America: We don't care about our children the way we claim. Too early, we expose them to the culture's basest and...
- Research articles 2004-11-19
- Sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib stemmed from Pentagon policy: photos were part of plan to blackmail prisoners
- Racism is a subtext of every war. Whenever a group of humans goes to war against another group of humans, it seems they have to construct the "enemy" as subhuman. In order to be able to kill others, we have to imagine them as demonic and bestial, lacking fellow humanity...
- Research articles 2004-10-15
- TV-show parody feeds stereotype
- As soon as Charles Stith got a look at the Joe Schmo 2 ad that ran in USA TODAY last week, he fired off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission FCC. "I found the ad unconscionable and offensive," the United Methodist minister and former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania said...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
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