U.S. forces and alliance with the occupation of Iraq in 9/4/2007 and now the Iraqi society in terms of Alsseologih includes a group of foreign exotic it differ with him in terms of ethnicity, nationalism, religion, culture, and such occupation transition of power, strength and resolution to be in the hands of the occupying forces.
Has indicated many of the studies that people classify each other for ideas, beliefs or ethnic or religions to which they belong, Fiksmon social organization to different sections of each section occupies a position of a particular society. From here we can say that the Iraqi citizen was aware prior to the occupation of certain stereotype of American troops may be formed to have what we hear or see in the mass media, especially as these methods are now available to almost everyone. After the occupation, there is a new reality faced by Iraqi citizens as the image that being a soldier the U.S. through the means of communication today is the test of sincerity, as the citizens of Iraq through its interaction daily with the reality of a U.S. soldier at home trying to make judgments on them, and called this phenomenon of social cognition. In other words, each of us is trying to form images and ideas about the personality traits of these soldiers, and we use these ideas to fill the gaps in our perceptions of them or in their mental representations. The stereotypical image of a soldier from the U.S. influencing factors in social cognition and behavior of the Iraqi citizen about this soldier.
As a university student is a slice of particular importance in the Iraqi community in that it represents a segment of youth educated and who may interact directly and indirectly with these soldiers, the current research tries to identify the image perceived by the university student Iraqi soldier, the U.S. before and after the occupation, as These images represent the beliefs and ideas is an introduction to the form of the interaction between the student and the American soldiers, and this is what passes for belonging to two groups, one carrying contrasting to the other stereotype can be positive or negative. |