Racism, an institutional ideology In 2006, the movie Crash presented many challenging portrayals of racial and ethnic issues. Crash is set in Los Angeles and portrays the ways in which people often show evidence of racist behavior, even while shielding themselves from the same kind of conduct, during confrontation. They do so when apprehensive and insecure: when discouraged with tribulations beyond their control, when threatened with a loss of self-esteem, and when frightened that racial others may extricate them from their place in the social structure. Racist behavior is an easy response because racial categories were fabricated to present superior and inferior status. Race is an influential idea and a continuing concept, made-up by society.
Minorities in the media The media has a huge influence on the way different races are viewed by society. Misrepresentation can be defined as to give a false or misleading representation with intent to deceive or be unfair. The United States is one of, if not the most, diverse nations in the world. It is often described as a melting pot because the country is made up of so many ethnicities and races. In spite of this diversity, the media still misrepresents different races in many ways.
Now that we know what Orientalism is essentially, we can effectively discuss what role Orientalism has played between the West and the Middle. Orientalism has developed a sort of Racism from the West towards the Middle East. This is seen all throughout most of the Western media. From movies and TV, to even new broadcasts the view of the Muslim and Arab people are skewed to the American public. A perfect example of this is the movie "Team America: World Police", by Trey Parker and Matt Stone 1.
A stereotype categorises a person in order to separate them from other people by distinguishing their main features. Stereotypes allow us to identify with the person being stereotyped, to give us a larger insight into what they may be like. These thoughts or beliefs may or may not accurately reflect the reality of what the person is truly like. Stereotypes can often be extremely broad and offensive, especially if a person isn’t categorized into a particularly positive group. ‘emos’, ‘goths’ and ‘geeks’ are all examples of stereotypes used by media producers.
It is apparent to some that drug, alcohol, and tobacco use is glamorized on the big screen. This causes officials of the federal government to question where the downside to substance abuse is. There is an unglamorous side to substance abuse. People have slurred speech, hangovers, and getting into trouble with the police is a big problem with substance abuse (Riechmann 19A). If movies are going to portray drug use, they should also show the bad side to substance abuse.
Do you think there is racial bias in advertisements?? Personally, I think there are many racial biases in advertisement and less now because before, there are many inequality advertisement about race and discrimination of many human beings and so advertisement using the method of “discriminating people” will make the people looking at the advertisement (offenders) feel good and so the person will buy the product. One of the biggest discrimination in the world is the black people and the white people and there are many historical evidences in the advertisement saying they are being racist. Also, there are many religious racial biases in advertisement. One of the famous advertisements selling the sandwiches, as you can see on the right, it’s definitely offending the Jewish.
This can end up with a person have racial profiling used against them and making a negative impact on their life. Most of the ideas of racial profiling come from the media (Mass Media). The Mass Media includes forms of communication that becomes exaggerated form the truth for ratings. Reporters would use the most extreme and dramatic story that they could find, to have on the news, for that day. Mass Media author, Jennifer Akins, states “…because the media are so prevalent in industrialized countries, they have a powerful impact on how those populations view the world.” This shows that people rely on the media for views on the world.
Not only does the mass media have the power to influence opinions and encourage racism, but the media has the power to impact voting decisions as well. (lapham, pg. 37). Often times the media is where stereotypes and biases are derived. People who have had little interaction with persons of a specific race or culture often formulate their opinions about that group from representations seen in the media.
Most of people are confusing about their race and ethnicity. According to “Talking Past Each Other: Black and White Languages of Race,” Blauner, Bob, the interpretation of race was racism as a result,” in the sense, an institution or an occupation is racist simply because racial minorities are under repented in numbers or in positions of prestige and authority. But White saw racism largely as a thing of the past. They defined it in terms of segregation and lynching, explicit white supremacist belief, or double standards, in hiring, promotion and admission to colleges or institution’s. But the Kernet Commission identified ‘white racism,” as a prime reality of American society and the major underlying cause of ghetto unrests.
In Brent Staples essay entitled Black Men and Public Space, he discusses issues of him being racially profiled on several occasions, and because of this he had been falsely considered a threat on these occasions (Staples). With all the negativity in the media and in movies surrounding racial prejudice and profiling over the years it is only natural to assume that if someone was found to be in the same situations discussed in this essay they would probably react similarly to everyone described by Staples. For some people in Staple’s situation it is possible that they may even get angry and turn violent which would only make the stereotypes true, but for him he chose the alternative, which was to be a little more understanding of the situations by doing things that made these individuals around him feel safe and comfortable, i.e. whistling Beethoven or just giving them a little extra room when on his night walks. This essay also raises a good question, should it be ok for law enforcement or the government to use racial profiling to make arrest or to just simply stop someone because of their race?