NON-VERBAL CUES

You don't always have to say hello or thank you to show that you really are welcoming a person or showing appreciation. Let me show you how people in other countries, such as Japan, the Eskimos and US do it.


IN JAPAN, they greet by bowing.

How the Eskimos greet by rubbing their noses.

How the people in the states greet by kissing. ( This video was a joke, but yeah you get the idea don't you)

Non-verbal cues such as this can often be pretty misleading. The non-verbal cues accepted in one country might not be accepted in another. For instance, if an American were to greet an Asian by 'kissing', the Asian dude would probably be screaimg rape hysterically like a mad hyena!

Don't you agree?

Racial stereotypes in Children's Entertainment

Sterotyping is something that cannot be avoided. We have been exposed to it since young and have created generalisations of certain people, cultures & what not over the past years. Even in disney productions that is catered especially for young children are manipulating the media to create sterotype. Watch the short clip to fully compehend. The link & video is provided.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS3e-n8Mj7I# CLICK THE LINK


Hence you can see that the perpetuation of racial and ethnic stereotypes by the media is an ongoing and real phenomenon that can be witnessed in children's cartoons. The factors that fuels this ongoing sterotypes is the inundation of racial and ethnic scripts presented to toddlers and adolescents at an age when it is difficult to be socially critical of these stereotypes.

When lyrics describes Arab in the first song as a place "where they cut off your ears if they don't like your face", children immediately register it and have a generaized morbid view of Arab which is shaped and influence by the media due to sterotyping.These racial stereotypes will flood the children's learning schema during these delicate and very impressionable years.

Yet, sterotyping might not be that bad. Sterotyping can actually help us to identity specific people such as thugs or good guys. When you were young, remember how your mom will tell you that 'guys in uniform' are good people. Well, thats true.

Eitherways, sterotyping is not wrong. So long as it doesn't hurt anyone, who gives a shit right.