Spencer's Representation

Americans today tend to value and empower the media as a source, while the focus of this source is on the methods of democracy and racial politics stated in U.S., which U.S. government claims on them as its main and central values in politics. Whereas Spencer argues in his article “Representation”, it is debatable that these policies have not been applied as they supposed to. Accordingly there are a lot of visible minority races whom have been discriminated and by report racism appears to be a big issue to them. In this article, Spencer claims that growth in multiculturalism haven't change the perception of racism enough and he brought couple of examples from international case studies in white western regions(MESAL). He expands his opinion based on his observations which emphasizes on the cultural idea of superior whiteness race and its dominance in comparison with other races. To back up his ideology he brought up the role of media and news with their negative effect which create a vicious cycle of this case. This can be experienced in Canada as well as America while people can't get approved for the jobs they want only because of their coloured skins or last names. …show more content…
Granted the fact if a region has casualties by any cause, the number of white people is going to be the main damage in the news and would draw all the attention by its title. As Spencer quotes a journalist's ideology: “1 dead Briton is worth 5 dead Frenchmen, 20 dead Egyptians, 500 dead Indians and 1000 dead Chinese” (Spencer, 2015, 6) this proves the fact that news' interests are relative to race and geographical conditions all around the