How Hollywood stereotyped
the Native Americans
Stereotypes are
generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of
characteristics to this group. When we make stereotypes in our home with our
family, the ones we damage with this is our own family, but when in television
or movies, who are part of the most massive source of information, millions and
millions of people (especially the children’s who are the one that absorbed all
the messages and subliminal messages in movies and don´t have a critical point
of view) get infect with stereotypes and racism.
It is very shocking to see that one of the major
economic potency and civilized country, that claim is the land of freedom and opportunities,
and in many aspects is a role model for our country; it is also the land of
racism (native population, black people, immigrants, so on) and stereotypes. In
that same land people were (and still but in lower amounts) segregated by color,
class, studies, nationality, so on.
And Hollywood and the television have a major
importance in these problems, because these massive Medias were used by a few to
spread the seed of racism and stereotypes in the population on united states
and created the wrong illusion that some race, some people are better than
others and because of that, they had the power to do with the others what they
want and think was the right to do. In some cases that means kill, beat, torture,
remove from their land, enslave, segregate, and so on.
Pamela Avila Pinilla
I agree with how the media is able to spread "the seed of racism" as you said. But there are some things that I think differently than you.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that there have been very racist american movies but it's important to remember that many of them were made during a time when most people (white people) had that racist mentality (not only in the U.S.A but in other countries as well). People always tend to think that the U.S. country as a whole is racist. That right there is a stereotype. The U.S. is like a big country filled with little ones which are full of people from all races, each with their own convictions and way of thinking. What would you think if I said that many minority groups can tend to be even more racist than white people? You grow up in a certain society, with its own customs and people, and if something different shows up your first reaction is to reject it. It is something that we need to change. Thankfully, with the coming and passing of different generations, this mentality is changing little by little.