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Published: 2017-08-25
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioM6GqRNN7g
as a kid when I was in grade three I wanted to be a Disney princess for Halloween like every little girl I wanted to be Cinderella when I tell my friends they took one look at me and laughed he said pronounced you can be a Disney puts Halloween don't even look like one you have a hair her eyes or her skin color I remember my favorite
television shows Kim possible Lizzie McGuire and Bob the builder all these shows had one thing in common and that was little or no racial type city my younger self felt distant from these characters I wasn't like that it was the same color like many children of various kinds of ethnicities I could not believe now if there ever was a character that did have a role who's
usually a very skewed typical one a character that fell under this category was a boon Nahas seem much tilling for the Simpson someone who owns that closest yeah now the thing that bugged me about approved once he was a man with fractured English a bizarre religious practices an arranged marriage and illegal immigration status the day I found out he was voiced by a man named Hank
Astoria the creek Caucasian American funny interested after all these years went up to being an Indian sucked at his own accent he was a proud man voiced by a white man voicing a brown many south Asians in America felt insulted by the sky all these ideas that the howto up to be related to the south Asian community and this is not really quite the case it
wasn't we apply to everybody now thanks to up to I met countless number of non south Asian people who came up to me with their depiction of an Indian acts now I would give the Indian accent maybe seven or eight eight point five scale of a hundred the thought that their Indian accent would impress me but in reality was kind of offending celestial try that now
oppose the man who promoted all the steward polite here and I don't really like that immediately sport now not having enough people in the media has a huge impact on beauty standards beauty starters in India especially you might think this is a huge thing where I come from back in India lots of people support this band called fair lovely it sells fairness creams and many little
girls in India are brought up with the idea that fairness equals beauty so they use the skin lightening creams Bollywood India's thriving film industry has actresses that are only fair under fairness is associated with beauty and little girls the idolizes actresses so the user screaming Artaud look like them they don't I only things is pretty screams actually worked actually cause more harm than good not good
fellow leans tells not only parts for women but also for men Seoul men also dragged into this idea about white equals beauty the media has a huge impact more than that we can think it results in discrimination many people tend to believe whatever they see in the media an example of this would be portraying Arabs and listens as extremists and terrorists were violent and uncivilized I
was watching another Tadic's talk in which I learned that in the opening song of Disney's Aladdin there is a merchant two sinks where the coffee here if they don't like your face it's barbaric but Hey it's home now what would the impact of this be on the tile that watching the song for the movie or anything they would think that anybody who was Millie's chin who
looks like that man would want to hurt them now after nine eleven motions Muslims are pushed into the global media people's perceptions began to change in this fuel the idea that anybody who was Middle East now this is we're not the only targeted people other highly targeted minorities include Hispanics and African Americans and seeks spike so consequently rules of an educated janitors and cleaning staff and
African Americans a consecuencia criminals and gangsters and these people they accept these rules because it only have any other ones that they can accept we must be more talented people that are of color the speak even more opportunities in our to fix a salute and dinner to fix this problem the media is the main means of mass communication it includes television newspapers radios and the internet
everybody's now all these begin saving our perception on race at a very young age the things that we see and hear impact the way that we think and that is why many people believe what they see now according to a study done at Templeton university many children are affected by what they see in the media if there are shown as having more opportunities and there and
there are over represented living they can succeed more and if they're under represented the see themselves having fewer opportunities has anybody here heard of the Clark doll experiment anybody at all no no okay hope two three for those of you haven't I'll give a short explanation so basically there's children of color they're told to sit down in front of them there two dolls are placed one
of them is dark skinned and the other one is like skin and then they're asked a series of questions reading from which dogs the good doc which dogs the bad dog which doll looks like you and most of these times that these children their answer with the dark skinned doll is bad and they actually relate to the dark skinned dolls and they tend to become little
side after this experiment yeah I know it comes at yeah so at this %HESITATION experiment proves that the children are quite actually affected by what they see in the media men helmet timely a professor at the university of Toronto agrees saying quote ethnic minorities and cannot Tanasi themselves being mirrored in the media this perpetuates the feelings of rejection trivializes their contributions and devalues ovals a citizens
in their nation now you got me wondering who is in charge of the shows that we watch according to a report from the telegraph reality television they're the report stated that the breakdown of NBC's New York senior staff was ninety six percent white now the public this is a every time there is casting for lead roles in a movie hero show these people of higher positions
sub consciously choose their own race over the other so this results in the other races getting negative rules or a smaller rules and they usually released your typical so so also up it's good media such as magazines lacked over city in twenty fourteen nineteen point seven percent of covers had some kind of person of color in the next year this is pumped up by point one
percent to nineteen point eight now this is an improvement but not one that is appropriate in this age of multiculturalism and I first there needs to be more people of color on these magazines because these are the things that we see every single day the only way to remove these barriers it's have patience and persistence and what we believe is right is a difficult and not
drastic measures until is more people of color that make it to the top ranks of the media and entertainment into many television shows continue to portray these minorities quite negatively and the place them as inferior so let's hope that twenty seventeen is a year of change change in the media attained simply in the way that we think I
