Racial Stereotypes In Movies

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Once we learn to recognize a cliché and its bases, such as the area that it covers, it can be easier to focus our brain on what part of the information we are receiving is real and identify which part of that information is trying to play with our minds. This is the first step to an objective view of movie clichés. It is known that women in our society are capable of everything a man do and are suitable for different activities that involve intellectual or even physical effort. Women are not sexual objects either; they are a company and a support for men as opposed to what it appears in some movies. Racial stereotypes also try to change our minds about people from different cultural backgrounds or different skin colors. The truth is that

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