Racism In The Media Persuasive Speech

It hits you when you’re at your local shopping centre. When you’re alone or with your family. It hits you at the bus stop, down the road. It hits you at the airport. One in five students get slapped with it every day. Racism, it’s a problem we continue to deny exists in our country. But ladies and gentlemen, as one of those students, I can confidently let you know that this is not the case. Racism is alive in all platforms of life. Let’s take the media for example. The media affects and influences our daily lives. But let me ask you this ladies and gentlemen, does the media really mirror culture or mould it? The media is laced with the vile venom of racism; we continue to bite into. We place people into stereotypical boxes based on genetic traits such as facial features, skin colour and hair colour. Our society …show more content…
How are we still letting this xenophobic platform fill our minds with poisoned information and portrayals? One of the most important factors of resisting racial stereotypes in the media, is making the cognitive realisation that television and movies do play an important role in how young minds are shaped. In westernised countries like Australia, we continue to see the inequality on the big and small screens, where people of colour have historically been associated with inferiority and labelled as the "Other" in society. Television no longer serves as a sole form of entertainment, but now as a means of education. Nowadays children are reliant on the images they see on T.V and film to dictate the ways in which they perceive the world. “Researchers found that pre-teen white children had an overwhelming penchant for associating white skin, namely theirs, with anything positive. The blacker the skin, the more likely they were to associate it with anything negative” (New America