...early years of film. The lack of evolution in roles available to Asians in American entertainment perpetuates the perception that Asians are alien, foreign, and “other.” Their absence from film and television demonstrates how underrepresented Asians are in American entertainment. The scarce representations that do depict Asians, are predominantly worn-out stereotypes, yellowface, and whitewashing of roles originally intended for Asian characters. Historically, Asians have been represented as a single group of “Orientals” instead of seen as individual...
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...From the Beginning of the film industry there has always been some form of prejudice. Where the plot thickened in the past with new and interesting set of cast is no longer the norm, today the plot today weakens. The main protagonists in action movies of today all the same; a strong Caucasian heterosexual male. In drama, it is a weak Caucasian female that cry. Today we expect to see the same set of cast in every movie and in each and every television show. They are white, male, or heterosexual. That is the problem we face and something needs to be changed. We need ethnic diversity we need bringing in more than just a cast of white people. Ethnic diversity does not mean having your entire cast being Black, or have your entire cast being Asian....
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...In a study done by University of Southern California’s Annenberg school of the top 100 grossing movies, only 4.9% of actors and actresses were Hispanic, even though today we see more Latinos in Hollywood than before, sadly the percentage of Hispanic representation in Hollywood is still extremely low. Latino stars have it tough. From inevitable accents to being bound to Latino stereotypes, each movie, commercial, and screen-time is an accomplishment. We are never aware all the arduous work that they had to do. We never know where they come from or the sacrifices that they had to make. Some of them changed their name just to be seen beyond their race, others are limited to roles because of their skin color or accent. Stars like Charlie Sheen (Carlos Edwin Estevez), Carmen Miranda (Maria do...
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...Position of English as a Global Language: Political and Cultural Factors English has achieved a global significance that no other language has ever been able to do so, in such a scale. A language earns its global status when it culturally and politically dominant across the continents. Also, it is notable that the most salient feature of a global language is not how many people use it, rather how strongly the people who speak this language is socially and politically established. In fact, perhaps the most significant force that makes a language global is political power of its speakers. The spread of English beyond Europe and the British Isles is accredited to four centuries of colonialism and British imperialism, which led to English being spoken by over three hundred million people. (Crystal 14) The first significant stride in the advancement of English towards its pre-eminence as a world language occurred during the early trade in the Atlantic. Crystal also articulates that by the year 1600, England had gained trading contacts across three continents, which retrospectively provided a powerful platform on which the English language was to flourish and become the globally dominant medium of communication that it is at present (39). Trading companies such as the Newfoundland fur trade, the ivory and gold trade on the western coast of Africa and the East India Company brought speakers of English into economic contact throughout the world. English and the English-based pidgins...
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...Asian males are marginalized and their images distorted in the media. They are usually if not always portrayed as nerdy, effeminate, quiet, hard-working, overly-shy. Hollywood constantly perpetuate these jokes that Asian guys are undesirable and undateable and when trying to think of the last few known Asian roles in Hollywood, there's not much representation to go off of which is a problem that needs a positive change. The media has been around for quite some time now but when asked to name an Asian male lead in the media, many can't think of more than just a few to none. Especially when asked about a tv show or a movie where an Asian male is the romantic lead or someone who has a kiss scene with a non-Asian female, there is almost none in this country and that is because Asian males are being heavily desexualized in the media....
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...American culture and way of life the prominent reason for that success? What was the contribution of the American melting pot with its huge diversity of migrants’ origins to the creativity and global outlook of the American movie industry? There are several reasons for the success of American movies: the budget, the Hollywood brand, the directors and the universal themes that appeal to a broad public. When the production can cover most of its costs by the local profit, it allows for a relatively low selling price to the foreign distributors. A large budget also makes it possible to use expensive actors with a recognized name that attracts visitors, as well as developing an efficient distribution system. The US has the most prominent country-brand equity in the world, which has without a doubt contributed to the Hollywood success. Therefore one might say that the fascination for American culture has helped their movie industry, but there are too many other factors to say that this is the main reason for its success. Several of the well renowned Hollywood directors have origins outside of the US. This knowledge of more than one culture might have contributed to a more international touch to their films, appealing to many different cultures, ethnic groups or religions. In addition they often use “the method”, a non-verbal style in interpreting roles, which is easy to understand even if you do not understand English or subtitles are poor. This minimization of language can be substituted...
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...Even worse, when characters of color are present, they’re usually portrayed as “bad” or are misrepresented. Films that don’t portray a diversity of race or worse, portray it in a harmful manner, are bad for a child’s development and self-esteem. The messages that these films send to white children are messages of dominance and power while the messages that they send to children of color are negative. One example regarding race was the original lyrics for the introduction of Aladdin, where the characters are singing about a fictional Middle-Eastern country and sing “Where they cut your ear off if they don’t like your face. It’s barbaric but hey, it’s home.” Another thing to point out is that most of the characters in the film are pretty white-washed, except of course for the “bad guys,” who have dark skin and look traditionally Middle-Eastern. Jasmine specifically was presented...
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...Diversity Thomas "Drew" McIntyre ETH/125 May Nineteenth, 2013 Jeanette Carney Diversity There is an abundance of information available on the topic of diversity in the United States. Some of it slanted in either one direction or another. However, I have found interesting reading material presented by National Geographic on this topic. In it, there is an enlightened view point of the state of diversity in our country presented in a way that is easily understood and easy to relate to. In addition to National Geographic, I have found useful information on diversity in our text book. It is a comprehensive and well written piece of academic material that covers a wide base of topics. The drawback to this source material is there have been a few statistics presented in which I did not find to be as accurate as portrayed. This also served as an upside as it caused me to think beyond what was written and investigate the material. By looking at and understanding other cultures and how we should embrace them. There was a bit of eye opening on my part in the ways that my particular racial group has approached it in the past and the strides that still need be taken in order to bridge the gap. I have learned about my own racial history that we too were also slaves. In fact, it was a common aspect of early European warfare to conquer and enslave their foes. At one poi t of time all of our ancestors have been enslaved for one reason or another. It is not simply the plight of Afro-Americans...
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...Asian American men and women are some of the least represented ethnic groups in film and television. In a 2014 study, it was found that out of 30,000 Hollywood characters only 5.3% of the characters were Asian. This is an insanely small number of roles. When you do the math, this equals to only 1,590 out of 30,000 roles. Most Asian Americans, when asked if they know any famous Asian actors in film, have a hard time even thinking of anyone. The only names that really come up that are very well known are the likes of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. These two are some of the pioneers when it comes to Asian people in American Cinema. Other than these two no one else really seems to stick out when it comes to very well-known actors. Even when it comes...
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...such as Justkiddingfilms and Wong Fu and people like Scott Kim to advocate that Asian Americans aren’t just your model minorities they are so much more than that and can fit into as many categories as any other race. However, compared to WHITEWASHING & ASIAN REPRESENTATION | Diversity Speaks - 2017 LA Film Festival general way of giving interview questions and answering them also quite familiar with how it was done in The Asian American Movement (Feature Documentary) showed that as they feature advocacy they don’t take out the fact, they also wanted to entertain and educate that doesn't take away the quality of any part of their...
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...that artist or work must really be the best! It wasn’t until the past couple of years that I started to really understand and look into what message these awards shows were showing about our mainstream society. Most recent on the topic is the trending #OscarsSoWhite hashtag used on social media to spotlight the fact that in the major Oscar categories of “best picture” and “best actors and actresses in leading and supporting roles” all twenty of the nominees were white and the movies nominated had majority white casts for a second year in a row while in other years there would at least be a few nonwhite nominees. While certainly the lack of diversity in Hollywood isn’t a new issue being brought to attention and is only just part of the issue under the “diversity umbrella”, the fact that this has been a trending topic has raised and reinforced more reasons for me on why I believe diversity and...
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...Accepting Stereotypes When looking at media today a lot of people may think it has come a long way in terms of its representation of the LGBTQ+ community. However, what many often fail to acknowledge is how they are being represented. Despite the growing acceptance and portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters in television and film, the main depictions we see are still stereotypes, negative images, and comic reliefs; all there for entertainment and/or to gain credit for diversity. Why is it that today, in the age of second generation human rights activists, the majority of people still seem to voluntarily swallow these stereotypes of the LGBTQ+ community? Hollywood has during later years been criticized by its lack of diversity, and focus on white...
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...Reflections on The Cultural Value of Film Statistics can be used to show that Britain’s film industry is now the third biggest in the world and a prime destination for inward investment. This success story was heralded by James Purnell, new Minister for the Creative Industries, in a speech to the Institute of Public Policy Research in June this year.[1] But what is the relation of this economic success to the vibrancy and breadth of our film culture? A further look at the statistics provided by the UK Film Council for 2004 shows that last year domestic production fell from 44 films to 27, where domestic is taken to be films made by a UK production company shot wholly or partly in the UK. In 1997, the year when the government set up the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, UK production had been at a record high, and 84 domestic productions were registered. In terms of what UK audiences could see in 2004, beyond American features and American co-productions, the rest of the world share of the market in UK and Ireland was just 2.7%, a figure which betrays the failure of film policy to encourage interest and understanding in the stories of what goes on beyond our shores. Last year also saw the consolidation of companies operating in the exhibition sector and a series of momentous deals which changed the landscape of UK exhibition. In August 2004, Terra Firma acquired both the Odeon and UCI cinema circuits for a total of 580 million pounds, acquiring a 35% share of...
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...Internal and External Factors MGT/230 Internal and External Factors Internal functions are what you can control and External functions are basically what you cannot control. Now, being in the Army is a different ball game when it comes to management. If the boss wants to keep you until 8 pm he can and for no reason as well. In the Army it doesn’t matter about results necessary but about getting the job done on time. As long as the job gets done, the boss is usually happy upstairs. The worst part about the Army is communication, which is huge. Many times I had to stay very late because our Platoon Sergeants did not give the Platoon instructions until 4 to 5 pm sometimes. We then had to rush to get everything finished before a certain time or the Platoon had to stay longer. Organizing has always been a strong suit for the Army, the problem starts with leading. Many leaders in the Army are young and do not have the experience to be leaders in the first place. Leaders vary from individual to individual, I had an amazing leader who taught me how to be the best soldier I could be. Having just one bad leader in a Platoon can be very toxic, sometimes deadly in an Infantry unit. An OP ORDER for the Army is what the functions of management is to a business. Having to go over the situation, mission, execution, signal and support and command and signal. My platoon had to go over an OP ORDER every single mission, that’s an example of good communication. That’s what makes the United...
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...of this extract involved numerous connections of societal development realities whereby tangible sources that supported the document provided critical information, particularly on Los Angeles historical fundamentals. Civilization is the major aspect explored in this study; the supportive materials helped my writing with analogous information that clarified the encompassed perspectives of societal detrimental issues that indicates the need for improvement, as pointed out by Mennell (p. 2). I have to acknowledge these sources for laying a foundation that proved the societal view and responses towards creation of possible change through literacy basics in their perspective community based activities. Social and political class play critical role in shaping people’s life whereby in sometimes they can be destructive rather than constructive in the societies. The view of human nature as a basic reality received in diverse perspectives indicates the need for substantive measures in taking people’s consideration when the moral basics are involved. Formulation of substantial laws to provide governance prospects are areas that many of the authors relied on in this study have proved to require substantive corrections to guide the people who seem to encounter the hardships of accepting others, particularly with the illusive approaches on society well-being. In most cases, as seen in this study, the ones who do not like changes of accommodating everyone regardless of their race, gender, and...
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