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This paper attempts to examine available literature referring to the attitude of the United States toward the Middle East and Middle Easterners, particularly in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attack of the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The information was collected to help determine an appropriate survey to explore the attitudes of Americans. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that arent blatantly biased - mostly against - those who hail from the Gulf Desert region. It is, however, possible to take information about U.S. policies in Middle East -
as well as the somewhat infrequent polls about Americas view on both the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon - and through this information, develop a
viable survey that would discern American attitudes toward both the Middle East region, and those of the Islam faith who choose to immigrate here. What is meant by "Middle East"
The fifth edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia, defines "Middle East" as "a term traditionally applied by western Europeans to the countries of
southwest Asia and northeast Africa lying west of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Thus defined it includes Cyprus, the Asian part of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza,
Jordan, Iraq, Iran, the countries of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait), and Egypt and Libya" ("Middle East," 1993).
Although the term, "middle eastern" is sometimes used to indicate, in a cultural sense, a group of lands that are predominantly Islamic, one could argue
that Afghanistan and Pakistan are also middle eastern ("Middle East," 1993). What this means is that, from a religious, political and geographic standpoint, the definition of "Middle East" can vary.
Someone from Afghanistan, for example, is not from the Mid-East, at least, from a geographic point of view, but if that person is of the Islam faith, he could be
considered "Middle Eastern." It is important, when referring to the Middle East, that it be determined what the reference is to, whether the geographic region or those who live within
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