Saturday, October 22, 2016

Update on the presentation project:

Jessica & Daphne

Media has a huge role in representing and depicting race with its stereotypes. We can first start off with the news that Jennifer Lawrence will be playing as Mulan. It's fake, but the fact that this fake news being put out there made so many people accept it in a second is a problem. The media made it okay that we all believe this fake news within a second. Those who saw it, were infuriated, including me. White women are dominated in the media industry and there aren't much women of other races.
Then, the media industry has the ability to "white" everything and that goes from purposely changing the name of someone of another race to a name that makes it easier for them to pronounce.
Racial depictions over the years were even worse because the stereotypes made before are still stereotypes that are still represented today. Asians are still famous for their no eyes, and "asian face", hispanics are stereotyped with something.. nasty. What's even worse is that the shows now even has a stereotyped category(?) as the name of the show. For example, an asian abc show gets called "Fresh off the Boat", a black family show gets called "Black-ish" but a white family show gets named after their last names. If you don't see what's wrong with that, there's a problem.

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