Monday, July 25, 2011

Osla, Norway

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?scp=4&sq=norway&st=cse

In Norway, a man dressed as a policeman shot at least 92 people. The Norwegian people assumed that the man would be a Muslim. This article is titled "Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in US". It sounds as if we're all surprised that the man wasn't a Muslim, which is stereotyping. Any kind of massacre or attack doesn't mean that it's some Muslim terrorist. Reading this article made my thoughts wander from the attack itself to the way others were reacting to it. Of course there will be people who believe in such stereotypes, but for the writer to put a title which makes it seem as if our whole country believes in stereotypes is wrong.

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