Stereotyping with Reference to film: The Visitor
Introduction
Wars, easy travel and globalization have been main reasons for moving from one culture to another. This creates significant expressions of multicultural, heterogeneous and stereotyping. In this essay, stereotyping and prejudice will be defined with reference to film The Visitor and a synopsis of personal experiences.
Zambardo argued that prejudice based on race increases emotions and behaviors at the targeted and its agents of hatred (as cited in Donaldson, Berger, & Pezdek, 2006). From personal experiences, stereotyping is shaping a fixed image or impression about someone or something even before meeting them in reality. Unlike stereotype, prejudice is making an opinion about someone or something without reasoning or concrete experience. Most of the Western contend that all immigrants are bad people, and a danger to their countries and national security. However, this changes when they interact, engage, or hear of successful stories; e.g. the CEO of yogurt Chobani is an immigrant from the Middle East who make his employees sharing profits (McGregor, 2016).
The Visitor portrayed the old American style and the new one in the character of Mr. Walter. In The Visitor, when Mr. Walter engaged with legal immigrants, he loved them, …show more content…
She goes out thinking that Walter is a stranger and she cannot be alone with him. She stereotyped him as a wicked character. A counter-stereotype is with Mouna who was in a romantic relationship with Walter. Additionally, when Walter learnt to play the drum from Tarek. (The Visitor, 2007). An important scene was when Tarek after Walter has finished his presentation, Tarek asked Walter to take off his nametag, which implied the transition from homogeneous to heterogeneous and multicultural where there are no name tags. "Tarek: Would you mind taking off your nametag?" (The Visitor,
Introduction
Wars, easy travel and globalization have been main reasons for moving from one culture to another. This creates significant expressions of multicultural, heterogeneous and stereotyping. In this essay, stereotyping and prejudice will be defined with reference to film The Visitor and a synopsis of personal experiences.
Zambardo argued that prejudice based on race increases emotions and behaviors at the targeted and its agents of hatred (as cited in Donaldson, Berger, & Pezdek, 2006). From personal experiences, stereotyping is shaping a fixed image or impression about someone or something even before meeting them in reality. Unlike stereotype, prejudice is making an opinion about someone or something without reasoning or concrete experience. Most of the Western contend that all immigrants are bad people, and a danger to their countries and national security. However, this changes when they interact, engage, or hear of successful stories; e.g. the CEO of yogurt Chobani is an immigrant from the Middle East who make his employees sharing profits (McGregor, 2016).
The Visitor portrayed the old American style and the new one in the character of Mr. Walter. In The Visitor, when Mr. Walter engaged with legal immigrants, he loved them, …show more content…
She goes out thinking that Walter is a stranger and she cannot be alone with him. She stereotyped him as a wicked character. A counter-stereotype is with Mouna who was in a romantic relationship with Walter. Additionally, when Walter learnt to play the drum from Tarek. (The Visitor, 2007). An important scene was when Tarek after Walter has finished his presentation, Tarek asked Walter to take off his nametag, which implied the transition from homogeneous to heterogeneous and multicultural where there are no name tags. "Tarek: Would you mind taking off your nametag?" (The Visitor,