Ethnocentric In Wildest Dream

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In the music video, Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift, I think that it was very ethnocentric is some ways and also stereotypical at the same time. The reason why I thought this video was ethnocentric is because it showed all of the beautiful features about Africa such as the wild life and the beautiful scenery. On the other hand, this is kind of stereotypical because it only shows Africa’s wildlife. I think it is stereotypical to assume Africa is all wide open space with all different roaming animals because not only wild animals live in Africa. There are more modern areas in Africa that have buildings and civilized people than most people assume. However, since the video was about “Wildest Dreams”, they didn’t want to show the civilized people

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