Representation of Ethnicity
- Created by: Reema
- Created on: 18-04-16 18:31
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- Representation of Ethnicity
- Stereotypes
- White
- Powerful
- Phsycially
- Intellectually
- Often the hero
- Serial killer in charge
- (dominant race)
- Lead role
- Powerful
- Black
- Gangster
- Impoverished
- Criminal
- Victim
- Latino
- Ugly
- Uneducated
- Illegal aliens
- Sex symbols
- involved in drugs (taking and dealing)
- Asian (Arabic)
- Very religious
- Terrorists/violent
- Seen as the villain
- Strict/stern = not a push over (as parents)
- Asian (Chinese)
- Clever
- Martial arts obsessed
- Quirky or weak
- Lack emotion
- All look the same
- obsessed with electronics
- White
- Ethnic minorities as...
- Criminals
- 'Black crime'
- organised gangs
- push drugs
- violently defend urban territories.
- organised gangs
- 'Black crime'
- A threat(creating moral panics)
- Immigrants and asylum seekers
- only interested in living in Britain because they wish to take fraudulent advantage of Britain’s ‘generous’ welfare state
- Muslims
- stereotyped as backward, extremist, fundamentalist and misogynist.
- Immigrants and asylum seekers
- Dependent
- ‘coup-war-famine-starvation syndrome’
- implies that the causes of the problems experienced by developing countries are self-inflicted
- that they are the result of stupidity, tribal conflict, too many babies, laziness, corruption and unstable political regimes.
- External causes such as colonialism, tied aid, transnational exploitation and the unfair terms of world trade are rarely discussed
- implies that the causes of the problems experienced by developing countries are self-inflicted
- ‘coup-war-famine-starvation syndrome’
- Abnormal
- E.g. Asian arranged marriages
- often inaccurate
- does not reflect how the system has changed over time
- Is wearing a hijab or veil problematic and unnesscary ?
- Represented as being inferior to western female dress codes?
- Portrayed as a patriarchal and oppressive form of control
- exemplifies the misogyny of Islam and symbolises the alleged subordinate position of women in Islam
- E.g. Asian arranged marriages
- Unimportant
- the lives of White people are somehow more important than the lives of non-White people
- News items about disasters in developing countries are often restricted to a few lines or words unless there are also White or British victims.
- institutionalised racism was present in the British media in the way they reported death from violent crime
- Black and Asian victims of violent death did not get the same attention as White victims
- Invisible
- Limited roles in TV drama
- Often reflect low job status
- Africans = cleaners
- Asians = shopkeepers
- Often reflect low job status
- Tokenism
- Programmes contain characters from ethnic minority groups just because they 'should'.
- Does TV Drama rarely show black or asian people as being ordinary citzens that happen to be that ethnicity?
- Programmes contain characters from ethnic minority groups just because they 'should'.
- Limited roles in TV drama
- Criminals
- Stereotypes
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