(OMITTED) To highlight the need to understand diverse cultures, Arab-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed offered his personal experience with stereotypes about Arabs.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

"I think the world need to understand that this is the new challenge of the 21st century, and this is the new war,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

"There is no question about that. But we need to understand much more about that.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

"they are around the technology everyday, they just need to understand the technology."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"We need to understand that the decisions that the president faces on Afghanistan are some of the most important he may face in his presidency about how we go forward there.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

"For now it's like a honeymoon." "People come and see their products and IOM facilitated them to go to an expo in Jakarta and they made like 10 million rupiah in four days but they also need to understand how they can allocate that for their own promotion activities."

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

"Come on." she says. "You do not need to be a rocket scientist to understand this."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

They say that you do not need to be extremely intelligent to understand something.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Teachers need to make sure students understand the uses and rules of language.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Manber says the results must be independently replicated, and scientists need to better understand the mechanisms of how acupuncture therapy works.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

"I think that survey shows that, as minorities and women pursue a STEM career, they have to face a number of barriers along the pipeline (SAYING...) and what we need to do as a society is really understand what these roadblocks are."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26