Avoiding Ethnic Stereotypes In Hollywood

Hollywood− Avoiding Ethnic Stereotypes Stereotype affects a lot in the point of view of people, even in the media. Since people grow up in culture with stereotypes, it is harder to change people’s point of view. Moreover, people easily get influence stereotypes through mass media and capture everything that relates to that stereotype. Therefore, Hollywood writers and directors are taking chances to avoid ethnic stereotypes and they has done well for that chances. The producers are overview all ethnic stereotypes and fix the problems based on stereotype to change people’s point of view. In fact, writers and directors of Hollywood are taking responsibility to avoid stereotyping ethnic characters directly or indirectly and bringing that characters …show more content…
They have started to change social stereotypes their own methods based on their careers. Movie writers have responsibility to form characters at the beginning since it is just an idea in their mind. Therefore, they can decide the main character in their works and they also can avoid ethnic stereotypes by checking their work carefully. Authors also write novels and books showing that they want to make change and educate people to avoid the stereotypes. For instance, in one of his famous books called Blink, Malcolm Gladwell mentioned police officers who shot a black guy named Diallo just because he was black who was living in a city where was full of criminals. Officers stereotyped him as a bad guy since he walked around that area. When Diallo took out a wallet, the officers thought it was a gun and they decided to shoot him even though he did not do anything wrong. Malcolm is trying to tell with people the negative effect of stereotyping and how it blinds the ability to process information under pressure in this situation. He knows that avoiding stereotypes is a hard job since people have grown up and similar with stereotypes; therefore, he wrote the book to let people know and estimate themselves about stereotypes. Moreover, his book: Blink− the Power of Thinking without Thinking also lets people know how to avoid stereotypes by giving evidences and annotations in the book. One of those evidences is when a majority officer decided not to shoot a guy who was carrying a gun with him and calmly solved the situation. Writers are taking the first steps closer to people and letting them know the problems in stereotyping through books and stories. In sum, writers are educating people slowly and taking responsibility to help people avoid