Through this class, I can broaden my points of view towards ways of persuasion in our lives, stereotypes, and discriminations. Reading, Age of Propaganda, was a very interesting book for me. This reading taught me that media, some companies, and politics know how to persuade people effectively. For example, I learned that, for persuading people, credibility is very important. I learned some companies understand that people’s feeling and desires when they buy something. In Japan, when we start job hunting, we need to dye my hair black color, ware neat suits, and make up in the way for job hunting. I thought this is kind of making credibility of myself for showing I’m a trustworthy woman. When I went shopping, I saw boxes of cookies were sold …show more content…
I know that this is not good but I am one of person who accept easily the stereotypes and ideals media or culture made. Through this class, I learned women’s ideals of their body images or their life styles were established by media and women are supposed to follow these stereotypes. Before I take this class, I felt tired of these stereotypes, but I didn’t think that these stereotypes should be changed because I thought it is normal and I accepted them. After I take this class, I learned that we should think about this issue more deeply. However, we focus on mainly women’s stereotypes, but we also have men’s stereotypes. We need to understand each other and change them …show more content…
I can use what I learned in this class for some aspects. First, I want to get a job which are related with marketing or advertising, so I can use the ways of persuasion I learned from Aop and this class. Therefore, JUST-RE-DO-IT was really interesting project for me. If I can get a job in marketing or advertisement genre, I try not to make advertisement which establish not good stereotypes. Also, I become to think carefully what persuader try to persuade me by using what kinds of ways since I learned these ways, so I keep doing this and learn some strategies. Second one is that what I learned about discrimination or inequality, if I have chance to join the promotion activity of LGBT rights or women right, I’ll try to use experiences what I learn in this class. However, it is not still enough, therefore I keep studying about this