Day Five

I was watching an animated television show this afternoon and there was a Muslim girl on it, her name was Isis. She was dressed in a burka, and was an exchange student. One of the male students was hitting on her and said, "I bet you were beheading guys back home." There are many jokes like this one throughout the episode, including many about her being, "the bomb." She starts going to various places and buying supplies, and the guys follow her, watching and trying to get her to date them. Due to the supplies she is buying they say she is obviously a hobbyist, which, based on the supplies she picked up, is supposed to insinuate that she is a terrorist. She ends up making a firework to set off at city hall. The white police start looking for her saying that because she is a Muslim female that she is going to City Hall to set off the firework and get gay married and that, "this is what president Trump was warning us about!" When the police get there they shoot her on sight as she sets off fireworks that say, "I Love America," with an American flag. She was wearing a bulletproof vest and says it is because, "before coming to America I read about your police, I expected this."
This is an example of xenophobia, since most of the characters are discriminating against the Muslim girl based on her obvious religion. This made me think about the way that so many people see Muslim people. When people see Muslims, many assume that they are terrorists, when that is almost never actually the case. Although I was not personally affected by the television show, it really affected me and the way that I see people.