This reminds me of the Superman radio show from the 1940's. They did an arc where the gang goes to Saudi Arabia for some reason, and it was like they had gone to some fantasy land instead of an actual country.
The weird thing was that the writers seemed pretty cool about Islam as a religion, but the "Orientals" themselves were depicted as superstitious, treacherous, or backward. At least half of these quotes could have been lines from the show.
But at least that was fiction, and I assumed the writers preferred a caricature of foreign lands to the real thing. You'd think a travel guide would strive harder for accuracy. Unless Egyptians really did chloroform each other back then.
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Date: 2012-11-15 04:07 pm (UTC)The weird thing was that the writers seemed pretty cool about Islam as a religion, but the "Orientals" themselves were depicted as superstitious, treacherous, or backward. At least half of these quotes could have been lines from the show.
But at least that was fiction, and I assumed the writers preferred a caricature of foreign lands to the real thing. You'd think a travel guide would strive harder for accuracy. Unless Egyptians really did chloroform each other back then.