September 11, 2001 and all is quiet and peaceful in the state of New York. Old man Radely opens his newspaper stand like every other morning and Mrs. Casterfield starts setting up the roses and baby's breath in her flower shop. Wishing he would have taken five more minutes to kiss his kids goodbye Jordan McCloskey boards the F train on his way to work on Jackson and Garden Avenue. All is as it should be and the suddenly out of nowhere the sky reveals two air planes heading in an odd direction: the Twin Towers. The highjackers of the planes were Muslim, and from that point on every other Muslim was thought of as dangerous and untrustworthy. Sure it was because the plane incidents, but most importantly because their culture – nationality, region they were from, ethnic background, religion and institutional rights. All the Muslims in the U.S.A and internationally have since then been slandered and tainted because of who they are. Is this fair? No. In Shakespeare's Othello, Othello, a moor in a Venetian environment, is subject to a similar "cultural collision." Othello had had different beliefs than the Venetians and this brought about his downfall; he expected different. When one is accustomed to perceiving a certain thing, or in this case a certain culture or way of life, a certain and distinct way for a prolonged time frame is usually hard to remove that belief from one's mind. It reaches the point where you begin to develop a bias, racism or prejudices towards it, expecting all of whom are associated with this specific culture or way of life to act a uniform way. This is how Othello was perceived thought out novel, as a "robot" moor that couldn't surpass the underestimated level they thought him to be at, but in fact Othello was better than some of the men who thought this of him. Othello's reaction to this cultural collision had a great impact on him which impacted the work magnanim...