Stereotypes are often an untrue and unfair belief that people have on people or things. These days our world has many stereotypes, stereotypes can be considered racist, disrespectful and unacceptable. Australia has many stereotypes.
All around the world people have different thoughts and opinions on Australia, through what these people think Australia get these stereotypes that change Australia’s identity. There is a whole lot of Australian stereotypes but many people do not know where we get most of them from. Australian stereotypes have been formed through television shows, movies, and social media platforms. Most Australians are fine with the stereotypes because they know how it really is but when there are Aboriginal stereotypes they are considered racist and disrespectful. These days our …show more content…
Australia is a county that Is considered as multicultural, diverse and unique. Through Australian history there has emerged a ‘typical Australian” that makes them ‘acceptable’ but this isn’t always the case as over time the ‘typical Australian’ definition has changed. As Australians, we recognize cultural identity and symbols that define us as Australians but defining Australians has its effects. For example, aboriginals who are a part of Australian culture have their own stereotypes that can come off as racist and unacceptable, they are hurtful and have serious effects on mental and physical health. The media has an impact on this especially on aboriginals by making them always seem like ‘bad people’ of Australia, you always see on ads that they are normally the ones smoking, statistics state that 50% of Aboriginal people smoke but there’s the other half that is non-indigenous. Australia has an aspect of racism as an identity when we are considered as multicultural, diverse and unique but because of this, we are not representing this belief because of not accepting others and their own ethnic, religious
All around the world people have different thoughts and opinions on Australia, through what these people think Australia get these stereotypes that change Australia’s identity. There is a whole lot of Australian stereotypes but many people do not know where we get most of them from. Australian stereotypes have been formed through television shows, movies, and social media platforms. Most Australians are fine with the stereotypes because they know how it really is but when there are Aboriginal stereotypes they are considered racist and disrespectful. These days our …show more content…
Australia is a county that Is considered as multicultural, diverse and unique. Through Australian history there has emerged a ‘typical Australian” that makes them ‘acceptable’ but this isn’t always the case as over time the ‘typical Australian’ definition has changed. As Australians, we recognize cultural identity and symbols that define us as Australians but defining Australians has its effects. For example, aboriginals who are a part of Australian culture have their own stereotypes that can come off as racist and unacceptable, they are hurtful and have serious effects on mental and physical health. The media has an impact on this especially on aboriginals by making them always seem like ‘bad people’ of Australia, you always see on ads that they are normally the ones smoking, statistics state that 50% of Aboriginal people smoke but there’s the other half that is non-indigenous. Australia has an aspect of racism as an identity when we are considered as multicultural, diverse and unique but because of this, we are not representing this belief because of not accepting others and their own ethnic, religious