CHICAGO’S NEW AND OLD ARABS

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CHICAGO’S NEW AND OLD ARABS

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This article describes how Arab people get to come and experience the culture of the United States as they attend Chicago’s World Fair. The author of the article describes the Arabs as though they do not understand American culture at all and references Arabic culture view them negatively. The author states that “the sun of the desert will not be lonesome in the Windy City” and that the Arabs will be “cavorting around with his sandbag couchant acquiring wealth as rapidly as he can find victims to acquire it from.”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1893-04-25/ed-3/seq-4/
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Publisher

New York Evening World

Date

1893-04-25

Coverage

New York City

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