The Central Park Language Analysis

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Language is powerful, it can be use to make one’s feel happy or harm one or more group of people. We human uses language everywhere in society to make peoples feel horrible or use our own greed to make one’s feel less than an animal. It is in our mindset to accuse and blames other people of other race. We stereotypes many group of people because they are different. We show our dislike towards them by persuading and manipulating a group of people to think that they are higher and lower people such as black or other color can never be part of them and never be like them. This bring in racism, separation of color people, and Othering in the community in America. Language is used throughout history to bring in stereotype and Othering to one or …show more content…
In the Central Park Five case language is used throughout the newspapers and press to bring in stereotype causing racism of the color people. Five young teenger were convicted of rapping a white jogger. “People fear crime..coming from poor minority..black and Latino young men..responsible for the problem” (Griffin, The Climate: New York in 1989). Stereotype is cause by one’s perspective and it can kills life when its use too much. Through the use of language it brings in racism to one group or more people. Racism brings in imagery and pathos to the reader mind. It make it seem like all poor minority, not just black or Latino are bad and do crimes but race that are in a poor neighborhood. These boys are innocent. Not all poor people are bad and not all white people are good. Not all the problem are cause by black or Latino people. By saying that all crime comes from the poor minority neighborhood that is totally races. Base on the article, “..suspects who played baseball, loved school, close to …show more content…
In the Central Park Five case, the media and press identified the young five boys as “Wolfpack that was out wilding’ (New York Daily News, Park Marauder Call it: “Wilding”). The media uses Othering to create the image of animalization toward the Central Park Five boys. The words “Wolfpack” is an example of animalization towards the boys. They are being called ‘Wolfpack” animal meaning that they are less than a human being. This creates a whole new level of thinking. The media uses imagery to create animalization in peoples mind to think that the boys are like animal causing the people to think that the boys are guilty. This theme opens space to demonstrate how stereotypes is show up by resenting Other as animal. By characterizing the boys as animal, the use of language can show power by making the boys seem lower and influence people to believe that the boys are like animal. This can impact the boys and both the community they are from by degrading them. “ Yes, “REDSKINS” does, in fact mean the scalped head of a Native American, sold, like a pelt, for chase” (Holmes, Esquire.com). The Native American are seen as animal, they seem to worth a lot when they are dead but when they are alive they seem less than a human being. Just because they are Native American doesn’t mean they have

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