African American Culture Diversity

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The media does not represent the diversity of America. Magazines, TV shows, movies, and models all make up media, but there are almost no non-white or black people that we see. The media should be more representative of people of color, other than African American.

Asians and Latinos make up about 23% of all America. That’s nearly 905 million people in America that are barely, or not at all represented. Latinos are the least represented race when it comes to media, even though they make up 18% of America’s demographics. When I looked up latino casted movies, only THREE came up; when I looked up mainly white casted movies thousands of movies showed up. I understand that plenty of movies showed up for all black casted movies, but African

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