These ideas of certain ethnic races are mostly negative and people are not immune to such. The entertainment industry tends to segregate minorities by producing networks, TV shows, and movies that are supposed to be designed for one race or gender in particular. Networks like BET or Lifetime tend to give the notion that they are meant to be one sided and no other race besides African Americans would be interested in BET or men would not be interested in Lifetime as it is meant to be for only women. Aside from network segregation, stereotyping is so much a part of American culture that it has come to be used as casual humor and disregarded as demeaning. As Michael Omi mentioned in his article, “In Living Color: Race and American Culture,” TV shows such as SNL tend to portray humor through the use of stereotypes that everyone is guilty of finding humorous and which they then also use to participate in continued stereotyping. Writers and producers follow what is popular and prevalent in American culture and create, reciprocate, and maintain racial …show more content…
There is this idea circulating that real ethnic media portrayals are not profitable. In Jessica Hegehorn’s article, “Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck,” she describes how the film, The Joy Luck Club, based heavily on Asian culture which featured an Asian cast still managed to be extremely profitable and its significance in American culture is still prevalent today. In order for there to be a clear representation of ethnicities in Hollywood, there needs to be varying ethnic people writing the stories, producing them, directing them, and portraying them to the public. This idea that true ethnicities without their stereotypes are not profitable because they will be uninteresting to the public is simply not true. The true minority persona and their reality should be constantly portrayed in Hollywood in order to begin to reform stereotypes and change the