...The Latino population grew more than 43 percent from 2000 to 2010, and their population continues to steadily increase. Their buying power has been expected to be 1.6 trillion as of this year. To put this into perspective, the Nielsen Report says that if the Latinos in the UNited States were to constitute a nation, it would be the 14th largest economy in the world. This group, relative to the general population, attends more movies and listens to the radio more than any other U.S racial or ethnic group. Programs and movies that feature Latino talents and storylines are rewarded with high ratings and revenue. When programs or films seem to have anti-Latino content, both consumers and advocacy groups target studios and networks with very effective campaigns (Negrón-Muntane, The Latino Media Gap). For instance, CBS’s show “Rob” was cancelled after airing only eight episodes. The show was deemed offensive after its stereotypical representation of Latinos. On the show, Rob’s father in law talks about his carwash company employing many immigrants, and laughs, saying, “Between 100 of them, I think they have, like, three Social Security numbers.” Protesters rallied outside the shows studios, demanding the eventual cancellation of the show. Another example of an effective campaign was ABC’s “Work It.” This showed featured Latino actors, but it also used very extreme, stereotypical representations. It was the target...
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...Crunkista the author of this articule star talking about how many stereotypes latino population have to face every day, and how they negatively affect Latinos She doesn't go into detail because we already know all of those stereotypes that every day affect our life in more ways than one way, but she however focus on one specific stereotype, the one that Latina women have to face every day how they are are ported in the media as curvy sex symbols that speak with an accent that are nothing but breath taking and have an amazing body, Crunkista criticized how in tv shows and movies Latinas are the hot Latina light-skinned girlfriends of white men , the media often ported nothing but the sexy latina ( or the latina that is a tomb boy but super...
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...Latino/Hispanic people are the fastest growing cultural group in the United States in terms of people. The word Hispanic does not define a racial group but it the term refereeing to all Spanish speaking people who reside in the United States . The word Latino however refers to a person of Latin American Origin. Understanding the Latino/Hispanic culture in law enforcement is very important because law enforcement personnel are dealing with people of all ethnic backgrounds and must have an understanding that are not all the same . There are many stereotypes and myths about all cultures and it is also important as a professional law enforcement officer to be able to rise above what are facts and what are just myths based on what movies portray...
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...Problematic representations of Robert Rodriguez, a Latino filmmaker based in Hollywood, work is the primary focus. We discuss whether his presence in Hollywood made him conform to their style of production full of paradigm or he was there to fight for the fair representation of Latinos in the film. Rodriguez openly discusses movies where Mexican and Latina's women are stereotyped. Rodriguez reveals how Latinos are not interested in filmmaking, especially his guerilla filmmaking and instead he gets non-Latinos who are using the valuable information in making movies. Rodriguez input in Hollywood could not be felt as movie script was made by involving many movie makers to contribute to ideas. The responsibility he had in Hollywood was to make enjoyable, entertaining, and fun movies that people will always yearn to see and not to make movies for people to appreciate. Rodriguez explains that when he puts his experience to filmmaking, then the Latino part will just come out naturally and no need to force it. Also forcing oneself to watch Latin movies won’t help as it requires passion, not it is an obligation for one to do....
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...The American film industry succeed in the promotion of racism concepts as they considerably influence the viewers. Actually, people often use the images they see in movies to understand the situations they do not go through. Hernandez notably claims that “such powerful and consistent message evident in American Films influence all filmgoers’ understanding of the role Chicanos/Hispanics” (Hernandez). The images about Hispanics in the film industry influence people in their perception of this minority. This suggests that when a movie director decide to use negative images of Hispanics, he creates a negative opinion of Latinos. In addition, as mentioned before, movies use many stereotypes to define Hispanics. The problem is that “stereotypes...
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...America and Diversity Kathy McGowan ETH/125 February 2, 2014 Shanna Birkholz-Vasquez America and Diversity Over more than two hundred years, the United States has grown from a fledgling nation to one of the most powerful countries in the world. The principles which established this nation attracted many different groups to its shores. Principles of freedom of religion and speech bought refugees from different ethnic groups. While other groups came to seek their fortune in the “land of opportunity”, one group came to the America under duress. Each group found prejudice and discrimination. As the years passed and the country continued to grow, the barriers of prejudice and discrimination were beginning to crumble. The different groups began to accept the differences that accompanied the diversity of the nation. These changes bring up a question. Has the United States finally overcome our fear of diversity? If we examine the cultural background of Americans, we will discover many are of European descent. Many of our ancestors came looking for religious freedom. Others came to settle debts they had in their homeland. Some citizens are descendants of slaves who were sold to affluent citizens and plantation owners. The circumstances around people in these groups arrival resulted in prejudice and ethnocentrism. Prejudice was not just directed toward African Americans during the 19th century. German, Irish, Polish, Chinese and Italian immigrants found themselves...
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...Stereotypes in films and tv Films and television shows are responsible for exposing racial stereotypes. These prejudice stereotypes often affect how individuals are treated in society. Since society watches these films and TV shows, their perception of certain races are altered or tainted. In the article, “In living color: Race and American Culture,” Michael Omi states, “In contemporary television and films, there is a tendency to present and equate racial minority groups and individuals with specific social problems. Blacks are associates with drugs and urban crime, Latinos with ‘illegal’ immigration, while Native Americans cope alcoholism and tribal conflict” (Omi 632). Television and films represent ethnic groups poorly and can therefore make society also think negative of them. Minorities can often become victims of racial stereotyping. These racial stereotypes are heavily influenced by TV shows and movies. Most of the times these stereotypes will have a negative effect on a certain minority and can cause individuals to be treated with prejudice and discrimination. Sometimes stereotypes can put these individuals in danger. It is believed that one of America’s most awful sins was the enslavement and segregation of nonwhites. America, since the 1600’s has been accountable for racism and discrimination especially in the south. Even today in 2015, America is still in the process of overcoming prejudice for good. For example, in August 9, 2014, an 18 year old African American...
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...Other minority representations in the media Latino portrayals in the media has been painted in a bad light for a while now. Historically they have also been ignored to a huge extent, and when they were portrayed it was through offensive stereotypes. They have been excluded from most American Media. This is evidence is backed by “The Annenberg School of Cultural Communicators Project which found that between the years of 1969 to 1978 only 2.5% of primetime television characters were Hispanic”. The reason why this figure means is so significant is because that figure is behind other minorities like the African American population who are comprised of 8.5% of primetime television characters. There was another study that was conducted by “The...
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...our discussions on stereotyping I have noticed it more then I have ever before. I have since noticed how people are put into a certain category of how they should or are expected to act just because of their race or ethnic background. Over the next few decades I believe that there is going to be a big change in the demographics of this country. I believe that the groups that are currently seen as the minority groups will start to close the gap on the majority groups. I believe that over the next few decades the majority and minority lines will become gray and skewed I believe this because there is because of the immigration trends. There are still many people that are immigrating to this country from places of Latino backgrounds; because of this the Latino group will gain in numbers on the majority. The demographics that make up the United States are going to become more diversified over the next few decades and it might be harder to tell what the majority and minority groups really are. The major challenge that the people of the United States face when it comes to the diversity of the people that live here is open mindedness. People have traditionally been closed minded to the things that they do not understand. They are normally afraid of and dislike something that they really do not understand. If people of the United States where more open minded about the people that where around them I believe that we would see less...
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...Diversity in the United States Calvin A. Goldsberry Ethics/125 10/27/2013 Sisay Teketele Taking this course in ethics has given me more knowledge and understanding of how to relate to people of different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. I understand that I have to resist the temptation to accept stereotypes that people believe and are portrayed in media about different groups of people. Whether it is a specific race, ethnic group, religious group, gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgendered people everyone deserves to be treated as an individual and given proper and appropriate respect. As always I hold the utmost respect for people of color because of the background of suffering with oppression and discrimination in America. I also have new found respect for other races such as Hispanics and Latinos because they have also had to deal with discrimination in this country as well. I did research on Hispanics and Latinos for one of my previous assignments in this course and found that they also suffer discrimination in the areas of education and employment similar to African-Americans. This course reiterated to me how strong African American people are because we never stopped fighting to stop segregation and discrimination against ourselves in this country. Trends in immigration in the United States indicate that immigration growth will remain high because people love America for its values and freedom. These immigration trends will continue to shape the demographics...
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...William Shakespeare once said, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon." In American media the same can be said for the Latino culture. In the eyes of the media, some are born Latino, some become Latino, while others have Latino thrust upon them. Latinos in the media include, politicians, actors, activists and criminals. The vast majority of these individuals create their own personification. Their media image is formed by the causes they support, the roles they play and the words they speak. In this regard, these individuals are either "born Latino" or "achieve Latino". In contrast, athletes are often judged before they ever speak to the media. Our perception is formed based on how these individuals are portrayed or personified by the media. For this reason, it can be said that athletes have "Latino thrust upon them". Of all the major sports, Latinos have had the greatest impact on major league baseball. Today nearly 25% of the players in the major leagues were born in Latin America (Berry, 1). As such baseball provides a unique perspective on Latinos in the media. Players rarely provide insight into their personalities rather our perception is based upon what the media wants us to believe. In this regard, baseball media artifacts enable us to see how differently Latinos were personified in the media over time. In the end it will become apparent that while their growth and achievement on the field has escalated, media perceptions have...
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...When people stereotype others they assume that a person has certain characteristics and abilities that they believe all members of that group have. Many people use stereotypes to simplify their world and reduce the amount of processing and thinking they have to do when they meet a new person. Stereotyping makes people ignore the differences between others, as well. Then they end up thinking things about people that might not be true and make generalizations. Stereotypes also lead to social categorization, which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes. This is because most stereotypes tend to convey a negative impression (Beebe, Beebe & Redmond, 2008). Stereotyping and prejudice happens every day in the United States. One example of stereotyping comes from a story I read about in my Cultural Diversity class. Although African Americans accounted for only 17 percent of the motorists on the New Jersey turnpike during a certain time period, they were 80 percent of the motorists pulled over. These occurrences gave rise to the charge that a new traffic offense was added to the books: DWB, or “driving while Black” (Schaefer, 2012, p. 42). Another example of stereotyping is racial profiling. A federal study made public in 2005 found that African Americans were twice as likely and Latinos were five times more likely to have their vehicles searched than whites. The likelihood of force being used against drivers was three times more likely with Latinos and Blacks...
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...Big Hero 6 became an instant hit in theaters, earning an estimated 657.8 million dollars in the box office. However, it did not become an instant hit to the minority groups all over America and around the world. Big Hero 6 uses gender differences and race stereotypes to establish a new and improved society in the movie. Big Hero 6 is not the new equally diverse movie it claims to be. There are Asian characters and white characters. However, there is only one African American and no Indians or Latinos! Although, Disney claims that the movie is culturally diverse because a white character, Honey Lemon, is voiced by Genesis Rodriguez, who comes from a line of Latino ancestors. Minority groups do not want to see a white character voiced...
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...Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes People being generalized based on limited and inaccurate information by sources as television, cartoons or even comic books (Tripod). This is a definition that seems to go against many public standards. The above words are the exact definition of stereotypes. Stereotypes as understood from the definition, goes mostly hand in hand with media -- only not the regular meaning of the innocent media we know. Media propaganda is the other form of media that is rather described as media manipulation. In this paper, the following will be discussed: first, how stereotypes of ethnic groups function in propaganda, why does it function so well, and finally, the consequences of these stereotypes on the life of Egyptians in particular in society. A fair examination will be conducted on this example of stereotypes through clarification examples and research results from researches conducted from reliable sources. The real association between Egyptians’ stereotypes and propaganda discussed in this paper shall magnify the association of stereotypes and propaganda in general. It seems necessary for this paper to start with some clarification of the terms associated with propaganda. Propaganda can be thought of as a foster parent for stereotypes. Propaganda is known to be the intentional manipulation of public opinion through hidden messages in advertisements and other media functions. Thus, propaganda uses many techniques to be able to deliver theses hidden...
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...University of Phoenix February 23, 2015 Diversity is defined as a great deal of varieties. Diversity among people is a combination of different cultures, religions, skin tones, disabilities, morals, and values. The great thing about diversity in the United States is that it creates an exciting environment. Diversity enriches the living experience, we learn from those who have different perspectives on life. We accept that we are different and that we can learn cooperatively in the social, economic, and intellectual world. Diversity is valued because it helps to encourage growth, personal and professional (Schaefer, 2012). The important thing to learn is that as a society we can remember that it’s not about Black, White, Asian, Hispanic or Latino ethnicities but constantly focused on being one with my brothers or my sisters. We could use these words in our everyday lives to face any situation at hand (Kolb 2009). At the end of the day it’s about all our differences, melting into one pot and being stirred only to make a change. “The fusing process goes on as in a blast-furnace; one generation, a single year even—transforms the English, German, the Irish emigrant into an American. Uniform institutions, ideas, language, the influence of the majority, bring us in similar complexion; the individuality of the immigrant, almost even his traits of race and religion, fuse down in the democratic alembic like chips of brass thrown into the melting pot” (Munson-Coan, T). This article though...
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