Essay On Media And Stereotypes

Media and Stereotype

I have always been a very open minded person, throughout out my life and even until now, I’ve befriended people from all ethnic and racial background. I didn’t care where they came from or what they believed in, I didn’t judge unless they bad mouthed another person for their belief or color. I was raised very openminded by my father who was very openminded himself. He had friends of all backgrounds. So, he preached to us as kids to not judge other even though they judged us back because you don’t know the person, unless you get to know the inner person, than you can judge. However, not until I was in high school that I experience bullying for being Asian, mostly from Blacks and Whites. It really put a toll on me and eventually I became …show more content…
Even with the idea that by making it a satirical, it only builds more new stereotypes and the ball keeps on rolling adding more momentum. Even when we have actor or actress from our very own racial or ethnic background doing the portrayal, that only signify the point of the media bias of stereotype. This further strengthen the core belief for other and builds the image. For example, most Asian characters past and present usually had a very strong accent and spoke with broken english, this streamlined across and embedded them the notion that Asians had an accent or that they spoke broken english. This happens to me quite often when I speak to people of color and they usually reply back either with “I’m surprise that your english skills is good” or “you don’t have an accent” and last but not least “I didn’t think you knew english”. I’m just amazed at time how ignorant people can still be nowadays. The media can be very persuasive on jump on the trending stereotype. They shouldn’t because it only add more fuel to the