Saturday, February 11, 2012

Analyzing Ordinary Muslim Man



The Ordinary Muslim originally had a background of the first image above and the popular caption associated with that meme is "I am the bomb at making falafels" Then people started using the background image such as the second picture and started generating new captions which then gained popularity on the Internet. When you search on google and type ordinary muslim, the ordinary muslim man meme is one of the suggestions on the search. 9gag.com is one of the sites in where you can see different captions of this meme.

The Ordinary Muslim Man, as previously stated has different opinions on the generated meme. For example below the comment from below from knowyourmeme displays the mixed reaction on it complaining on how it's racist towards Muslims and is a general portrayal of them then describes it as funny. The person then goes on with writing something about putting down Americans which he made a generalization of Americans eating Big Macs.

However, this other person below that commented finds it humorous and is a Muslim as well. He is appreciating the generalization and this displays how society views racism as socially acceptable. People of the own ethnicity accepting the racist comment is just encourages people to continue generalizing an ethnicity for doing certain actions in which they all don't do. People can take it as a joke but Muslims can find it offensive but also funny. By the description of the meme being funny, it only encourages more people to bash on Pakistani Muslims by writing more Anti-American jokes.
This generated meme is racist yet funny to me as well. It's a mixed reaction towards this meme because if it was your ethnicity being made of the people laughing at this meme may be offended depending on the person's view of the captioned meme. It all comes down to a person's value, character and respect of people from a different ethnic background. Just as the saying, "Treat others how you want to be treated."

1 comment:

  1. As much as I laugh to this meme I see how Muslim people find this offensive, especially since 911 because now this ethnicity gets treated much differently. The media has forever changed out views towards Muslims or even people that appear Muslim. The fact that in the airports they get picked on is just wrong, one should not get judged based on what someone else did.

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