But a good question arises from this issue is that has the people have confused stereotypes and racism. I believe mostly nowdays there is a set stereotype for people from different nations, in America; being such a great diverse nation.
Like for example in the Lion King, "the hyenas speak in a kind of clear steer, inner african dialect. they are considered the bad guys."
Was this necessary to have them speak in that kind of a dialect.
Being an international student, during my freshmen years so many "americans" have told me that you dont seem like your from india, just because I spoke good english. I mean people dont even know that English is actually the first language in India. So this hints that firstly people should be more aware of the world news.
Again going back to the article by Sethi, saying that stereotypes, "people dont make them but dont want to show it." and even racism for fun, which is good to some extent but then its way you make a joke about it.
I would say to some extent even I make racist jokes but I would'nt consider myself racist due to the fact that I dont make people embarrassed or tease them from where their roots belong.
So, people should be made aware of their own culture, then they would support or take note of it.
http://www.nhaeyc.org/newsletters/articles/Racism_in_Childrens_Movies.pdf
Are stereotypes a part of racism? Do they help to foster the ideology of racism that we have discussed in class? Can you relate the example of racism in Disney to any of our other readings on racism?
ReplyDeleteYes i believe in the united states, stereotypes is definitely a part of racism and they do foster the ideology of racism.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with the idea what Sethi speaks about in her article, that people don't want to show but they do agree to the stereotypical opinions that people get when they get to know which place they belong to.