People carry this stereotypical image of Americans being necessarily blond and white. The belief that Americans do not include people with Asian background is usually expressed causally and innocently. This reflects the widely shared assumption in American culture, one that shows the narrow view of American history. However this book fills in those skipped and ignored role an Asian American played in the formation of America in 80s and 90s, how they created a world for themselves in an alienated place and their coming generation, .us and that is the very reason why I really like this book. Ronald Takaki puts in many short story told by Asian who lived in that period and also poems and sayings of them too.
The majority of readers read tabloid newspapers as some of them are free and all are easy to read. However at the same time they often present a biased inaccurate and unsubstantiated image of adolescents, whereas broadsheets have longer articles which are balanced, use less emotive language and are usually able to back up their points with statistics. The differences are very obvious in the article in the Guardian ‘Not yobs but loving, maligned boys- survey finds’ and the article in The Mail on Sunday ‘Shami’s whining is worse than the Mosquito’. In the Mail on Sunday Peter Hitchens discusses how the Mosquito, a device that creates a piercing sound, painful to adolescents, has been criticised by human right supporters. He makes most of the readers believe what he says as he describes teenagers in a totally negative way and creates a very bad image of them.
However it was done a long time ago and so the weakness is therefore that it is a lot less relevant to todays society, for reasons such as the medium of written stories are a lot less used than they were in 1932, a clip if a story would be a lot more relevant. Allport and Postman then came along and want to test Bartlett’s schema theory on a picture. They took a picture of a white man, in scruffy clothes holding a cut-throat razor in his hand and pointing it towards a black man in a smart, clean suit. The results of the experiment fitted with schema theory as in 1947 there was a lot of racism and the story changed to fit peoples perceptions of black people. It changed to the black man holding the knife and arguing with the white man who was well-dressed.
Texts construct race as a natural category. Many representations generally describe the interests of dominant groups by defining other races as abnormal. Somewhere right now, there is someone being discriminated for the colour of their skin. Today’s society; you may say all you want about it being better than what is was like in the 1900’s to now but how much better is it really? Yes we have found many cures for severe illnesses and are now aware of Global Warming, which we are doing our best to prevent with renewable energy, but has anyone ever thought of the way people act throughout society?
Red-top tabloids newspapers are newspapers with a red tabloid at the top. The more popular red-top tabloids in the UK are Daily star, Daily Mirror, Daily Record and The Sun- which is Britain’s most popular paper. Most of these types of newspaper aim for an audience who are young adults and are a working class target audience. These newspapers tend to be very cheap from a price range of 20p-50p, this is so the audience can buy it even if their poor or rich. Red-top Tabloids news values are usually different from other newspapers; this is shown by the Red-top tabloid.
It is indisputable that the media is indeed a powerful tool, but it definitely should take greater responsibility for its role. But while many argue that it should be checked entirely, it would serve better to check only the negative influences that the media brings, while at the same time amplifying the good of the positive influences of the media. Mark Twain once said that “There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here”. Thomas Jefferson, however, also said that “the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers”. These two quotes clearly show that the media is a powerful and important tool, with the ability to inform and educate, and possibly entertain.
Ones culture has a lot to do with how everyone perceives the world and others, but there are other factors that influence the way that one observes the world and the people around them. The Internet , magazines, and TV have more power than people give them credit for. But it’s also the same with ones culture. For example, take the general American culture. People don’t hug and kiss everyone; Americans like to have their personal space.
PBS, a media power house in the United States, conducted a survey and found that their staff was 90 percent white, and 87 percent male. It is also important to consider the point of view from which media is reported. Some media companies report stories and depict how the rich, the powerful, or politicians will be affected, but tend to ignore those who are directly affected by the issue. An example of this is seen when natural disasters occurm and some media companies focus on how the tourism sector and economy will be affected, rather than on how the dead and their families are affected, or on how the region will recover, Sometimes, those affected by the issue barely get a chance to air their voices and thoughts. There are many other factors that affect how fairly news is depicted, such as the context, the language in which the news is reported, the terminology used, and societal stereotypes.
However, from this data, we can make dangerous generalisations and typical stereotypes. Our perceptions are usually based on pace, vocabulary and stereotypes. R.P is associated with upper class and although only a small minority use it, it represents power, prestige and privilege. It is heard all over the country and is used in dictionaries and on the BBC. Power is seen as dominance, which is why most politicians speak in R.P/ Before the 18th century there wasn’t a standard accent.
A professional convention is exactly what the context of the sentence implies: it is a resilient norm that is shared amongst many organizations in an industry and is practiced as if it were a rule. Although, The Star shares similar layouts to other news agencies, it tries to differ from the rest by placing graphic novels and puzzles to appeal further to children, and consumers who purchase it solely for the games. While The Star may share a similar layout to most news agencies, there are subtle differences which changes the overall experience of reading the newspaper compared to others. Since the average American attention span is relatively short, most of The Stars’ articles are not as lengthy when compared to the Sing Tao Daily newspaper for Chinese audiences. Not only are the articles much shorter in The Star, but they also dedicate less pages for advertisements.