Accent

Thinking about Latino stereotypes in the media what immediately comes to mind are the domestic workers. Every maid in a household is Latino and overweight while the gardeners are named Jose and have a moustache. They usually have a strong accent and speak broken English. After viewing this week’s material, I am confirmed on my view of stereotypes in the media as all the sources presented included the domestic worker. Other stereotypes I have seen in the media after viewing this week’s material…

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What is one of the biggest differences between Australia and America? Is it obesity? Is it our accents? Maybe it’s time difference? When was the last time you heard about a mass killing in Australia? If I remember correctly, it was in Port Arthur, 20 years ago. Since then, Australia has put extremely strict gun laws in place and there hasn’t been a shooting since, making it the 9th most peaceful country in the world, according to the Global Peace Index rankings of 2015. Now compare this to…

The Novel, My Antonia, which is written by Will Cather, tells a story about immigration and relationships in Nebraska. The whole story is told from Jim Burton’s aspect, who is the main character. Antonia Shimerda, another main character in the story, moves from Bohemia to Nebraska with her family. She is Jimmy’s best friend, and they both play an important part in each others lives. Their relationship and growth are presented in the book. This novel was adapted into a film in 1995, which is also…

This movie presents the “bad” guys as mostly having accents of some sort, or very harsh voices. The “good” guys tended to have very American accents, and in the genie’s case, very American impressions. The “good” guys in Aladdin had very western manners of speaking and even the main character, Aladdin, began to use “Al” as his name. This was a very…

Having graduated top of her class in law school and now works as a high- powered attorney, Brenda, carrying a large designer bag and leases a spacious house in an exclusively white neighborhood, is a second-generation Mexican American who has defied odds in the eyes of many people. How so? Compared to other races, Mexican Americans have been the least educated in the United States. An exuberant 47.3 percent of Mexican Americans compared to the 23 percent of African Americans, 15.2 percent of…

In both Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the characters were put in a situation where they were exposed to a different setting than where they came from and it interfered with their identity. Changez had trouble finding aspects from his home, Pakistan to keep with him in his new country, America. The sisters struggled to balance characteristics from Dominican Republic and America because of the huge difference in the…

The books Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Animal's People, by Indra Sinha, both explore what it is like to be an outsider finding your identity amongst the rest of ‘normal’ society. Adiche does this through her character Ifemelu, a Nigerian woman who immigrates to the United States for college, experiencing culture shock and the inevitable changes she makes to her identity in order to fit into this new place. Indra Sinha explores the concept through a very different character: a…

Bahmerican: My Language at Home In June of 1991, two families, who had many differences including socioeconomic, religious, and geographic were united in marriage. One was a middle-class family from the island of Grand Bahama. The patriarch, my maternal grandfather, was an executive with the Grand Bahama Power Company. His wife was a secretary for a construction firm. They were by no means wealthy, but they were able to send all three of their children, plus my grandfather’s younger brother…

On Friday 24th October 2014, I went to see Frantic Assembly’s version of William Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, directed by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett. Frantic Assembly are a theatre company whose performances are primarily dominated by their unusual use of physical theatre to express emotions of characters and uncover hidden meanings within the play through the use of movement. The play was performed to an audience of mostly young adults and teenagers, perhaps because it had been…