Media Stereotypes

From this video, we can tell the Middle East people have been stereotyped always as the bad people. Even in cartoon, they show how bad the Arabians are. This kind of stereotypes really affect people around the world, the way they judge people from Middle East and women with hijab.
People easily believe in something that the media show them.

What is media stereotypes?  Stereotypes is a belief about some specification or social group. When media say something bad about some people in the social group, it'll affect the whole social group. Even if the bad person is only one of them, people will judge the whole social group is bad.

According to Joshua Aronson and Claude M. Steele, there are three Ppssible prejudicial effects of stereotypes :

• Justification of ill-founded prejudices or ignorance
• Unwillingness to rethink one's attitudes and behavior towards stereotyped group
• Preventing some people of stereotyped groups from entering or succeeding in activities or fields

Negative effects may include forming inaccurate opinions of people, scapegoating, erroneously judgmentalism, preventing emotional identification, distress, and impaired performance.

There was this girl named Alex, an UCLA student who complaining about Asian as people with no manner just because she was annoyed by someone who talk on the phone using Asian language in the library. In this case, that Asian was talking via phone about her/his family when there was a disaster in Asia. Alex post her video about this  on Youtube. This video got the Asian-America people attention, and a there were a lot video response for her video from Asian-America.

This is an example of how stereotypes affect the whole social group, when there's only one person in the wrong, could make the whole group got the bad affect.

Role in Art and Culture

         Stereotypes are common in various cultural media, where they take the form of dramatic stock characters. The instantly recognizable nature of stereotypes mean that they are effective in advertising and situation comedy.  In literature and art, stereotypes are clichéd or predictable characters or situations. Throughout history, storytellers have drawn from stereotypical characters and situations, in order to connect the audience with new tales immediately. Sometimes such stereotypes can be sophisticated, such as Shakespeare's Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. Arguably a stereotype that becomes complex and sophisticated ceases to be a stereotype per se by its unique characterization. Thus while Shylock remains politically unstable in being a stereotypical Jew, the subject of prejudicial derision in Shakespeare's era, his many other detailed features raise him above a simple stereotype and into a unique character, worthy of modern performance. Simply because one feature of a character can be categorized as being typical does not make the entire character a stereotype.
Despite their proximity in etymological roots, cliché and stereotype are not used synonymously in cultural spheres. For example a cliché is a high criticism in narratology where genre and categorization automatically associates a story within its recognizable group. Labeling a situation or character in a story as typical suggests it is fitting for its genre or category. Whereas declaring that a storyteller has relied on cliché is to pejoratively observe a simplicity and lack of originality in the tale. To criticize Ian Fleming for a stereotypically unlikely escape for James Bond would be understood by the reader or listener, but it would be more appropriately criticized as a cliché in that it is overused and reproduced. Narrative genre relies heavily on typical features to remain recognizable and generate meaning in the reader/viewer.
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