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Our biggest conceptions about the middle east is That we get our misconceptions from social media and from a us a perspective so our misconceptions about the middle east arent fair for examplke like guessing someones religon.

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people think that the middle east is just deserts but there is more to that. Some people also think that it is also really dangerous.

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I did not know that the largest muslin population is in indonesia, and the spoke a lot of different languages like persian  ,turkish,kurdish, and hebrew.

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Most people think that all Middle Eastern countries are just deserts but the geography of the Middle East is diverse and includes everything from fertile river deltas and forests, mountain ranges and arid plateaus. Some countries in the Middle East are oil rich, while others have little or no oil reserves.

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I didn't know the largest muslim population was in indoneast

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what mostly stood out to me was some of the rhetoric and misconceptions through media and even movies. I notice there are just alot of media that quickly derives the mix ups and thoughts between muslims/Arabs. There is an actual difference between the two that people do not really care to correct themselves about. (muslim- is more of a religious stance, Arab-people who inhabit the middle east area)

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Something that stood out to me were the cartoons that had negative stereotypes about Muslim/Arabs like Ali Baba and Princess Jasmine.

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I believe our biggest misconseptions about the Middle East come from the fact we only get our news from the US and we dont really get to see from the Arab POV causing many misconceptions.

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What stood out to me was that people in the Middle East place a high value on education and parents want their kids to study arts and sciences.

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A lot of topics discussed in these articles changed my perspective on things. I didn't realize that the middle east is actually very urban, ramadan fasting has acceptions, and arab women are not as oppressed and quiet as we may think.I also did not realize that arab is a race, and muslim is a religion, I thought that using the term arab would be making an offensive assumption (I don't know why). It's kind of refreshing to have misconceptions like this proved wrong.

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people in the middle east live as nomads... 60% of the region population live in major cities the middle east is also diverse. because you live in the middle east don't mean they are all alike majority hate the violence and love America and doesn't hate us.

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What stood out to me is that the Middle East does not have clear cut boundaries

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what stood out to me was the geography. although i've ever really known what i've seen on tv or on tv shows. the media for programs only show the desert and the glorification of the war out there. before i knew there was war but again i falsley assumed it was all desert set, sand, wind, the blistering heat, no water. but looking into it the geography is widley diffrent as it includes rivers, forests and mountain ranges

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It stood out that the word Jihad means struggle. I thought it was interesting to see just how many misconceptions people hold about the Middle East.