Paul

I am using sarcasm about the Italians. After all, I could also have said they invented fascism -it is an Italian word.

I have seen a lot more tarring of Arabs and Muslims by people who have an extremely unidimensional view of the Arabs. And a unidimensional view of the world ( a personal favourite is "Asians are not creative. They spend all their time rote-learning. They have not written any famous books,plays, poems, etc. Culture is mainly western - Beethoven and Mozart are the greatest musicians in history.).

Every country, according to these geniuses, has one or two cliched basis. For India it is the caste system and arranged marriage. Arabs are anti-female and terrorists. Africans are violent and lazy. And so on.