Ethnic Stereotypes in the Media

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Ethnic Stereotypes in the Media

• Do they hold any truth?

By Nabila Shehu
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Did you know?

• Only about 24 of U.S. citizens own passports.
• 2006 study showed that 44 percent of Americans
  had planned to take vacation within the next 12
  mths. Out of those, only 37 planned on traveling
  out of U.S.

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Ethnic Stereotypes Where do they come from?

• Definition generalized representation of an
  ethnic group
• Main source of information about other cultures
• Media
• Classrooms
• Encounters with people of other cultures within
  the society (depending on community)

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How Many Stereotypes Can you Pick out?

• Go through the next three slides and try to pick
  out as many ethnic stereotypes as you can.

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Babel
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Freedom Writers

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Family Guy

• Click Here

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Stereotypes

• Most Arabs do not speak english
• Most Arabs live in rural areas
• Most Hispanic women work menial jobs e.g.
  housekeeping, nannies
• Victims and perpetrators of violent crimes are
  usually Black or Hispanic
• Large number of Chinese population is employed in
  sweatshops, which also employ very young
  children.
• Everything is made in China

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The Facts

• Less than 10 of Arabs speak English and only
  about 20 of the entire worlds population speak
  English.
• Although the majority of Arabs live in urban
  areas, a large number (42) live in rural areas.
• Median weekly earnings for Hispanics 430 For
  white non-Hispanics 735

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• Hispanic youth were more than twice as likely,
  and black youth more than six times as likely, to
  be arrested for a violent offense than white
  youth
• Sweatshops in China employ about 200 million
  people and children 12 years old or even younger.
  
• China has supplied 15.8 percent of all U.S.
  imports this year, ranking second behind Canada's
  16.7 percent share.

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Ethnic Stereotypes How true are they?

• Most hold some truth, although they are often
  exaggerated.
• It is true that
• Large number of Chinese living in America are
  involved in restaurant business (almost half).
• Colombia was the largest producer of cocaine in
  the 1990s.
• About 50 of girls in Nepal, Bangladesh, India,
  Pakistan, and Afghanistan are forced into
  marriage.
• They are only wrong when we use them to form our
  basis of how a person should act.

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Sources

• www.bls.gov/news.release/forbrn.t05.htm
• www.m-travel.com/news/2006/10/is_air_travel_s.html
  
• nps.navy.mil/si/may03/middleEast5.asp
• icann.org/presentations/alzoman-idn-kl-21jul04.pdf
  
• www.answerbag.com/q_view/53199
• www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/TestFrame/76d
  4dcab621aaa53c1256cf300383560?Opendocument
• www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/article.php?ID
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• http//hrw.org/women/overview-asia.html