Word: misrepresentation
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In its first issue, the editors write that they see the magazine as "a forum in which native students are allowed to voice their opinions to those who misrepresent, marginalize and even fail to recognize our existence."
There's no mistaking the reference; Schami is flogging his heritage to American publishers. He capitalizes on the romantic nation of Arab story-telling, as thousands have before him. But Schami boasts an advantage that Nerval or Flaubert could never attain: he is an Arab. He understands what makes Damascenes...
Historians at Harvard share your enthusiasm for the recent successes of Afro-American Studies (staff editorial, November 19, 1993). The University has been strengthened and Chair Henry Louis Gates and his colleagues deserve our thanks. But I regret that you thought it useful to misrepresent the Department of History to...
Today, Galvin says, their sales staff is "more precise and accurate." Salespeople who misrepresent the club face dismissal, she said.
So Christians sigh again and wonder why it is that the media always seems to misrepresent them.