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.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Racial stereotypes in Children's Entertainment
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Yes you are right... Stereotyping is not wrong. It helps the kids indentify different types of races and ethnic groups. It will not harm anyone as long the things they show in the cartoons is not abusive.
yes its true to a large extent ... thou it has never crossed me that something as subtle as Aladdin could influence kids perception on Arabs ... come to think of it... its my favourite toon movie...
ya i agree with u as we cannot identify who's good or who's bad. We can only depend on stereotyping.
Yes who gives a shit. Haha but it really is true. Some what like our english reading about barbie dolls if you get what i mean
Hi!! Dis my face! -.- I are slit eyed Asian! ANY PROUD OF IT!
You know, racism is something invented by the "victims" themselves, not the perpetrators!
Black guy calls me a chink, meh, so what? Might as well call me an ass or a hero, its just a tag, a nickname.
Then I call him a nigga and next thing I know, BAM! BAM! busta cap yo! Fo shizzle nizzle! Go eat yo chiky d china in yellow river biaaa!
Sigh... oversensitive much?
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