Stereotypes In America
America is a country with cultural diversity and different ethnics; therefore, there must be serious conflicts due to differences in cultures. In other words, these differences and conflicts have gradually created stereotypes within people, especially within Americans who consider themselves superiority and people from Asia, Mexico, Africa, etc. who are considered as inferiority. These have been perpetuated in popular culture including film, TV, advertising, music, and consumer products. “Film and television have been notorious in disseminating images of racial minorities which establish for audiences what these groups look like, how they behave, and, in essence, “who they are.”” (qtd. in Signs of Life in the USA 542). In fact, Americans are
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Stereotypes are closely related to a country’s culture, it surely takes a very long time to change, not just a day or two. Why don’t we start our first step from children? Today, children are educated in a really different ways comparing to the education that we received thirty or even fifty years ago; therefore, they have a completely opened view about a diversity country where they are living in. Children from different races are able to enroll in the same school; there is not discrimination in education any more. By sharing the same education level, playing on the same ground, hanging out with friends regularly, these activities can probably can help children have a right and fully understanding about their friends who come from different countries in the world. Even though the children are too young to fully explain what stereotypes or racism mean, they know that it is not fair to treat others different just because of their skin colors. The children were firstly born with their minds that are as white as papers; it is the adults who write stereotypes down on the children’ minds. If the adults stop doing any stereotypic actions against each other, the children cannot learn from them. And if children do not bear any stereotype in their mind, their next generations also will
Stereotypes are closely related to a country’s culture, it surely takes a very long time to change, not just a day or two. Why don’t we start our first step from children? Today, children are educated in a really different ways comparing to the education that we received thirty or even fifty years ago; therefore, they have a completely opened view about a diversity country where they are living in. Children from different races are able to enroll in the same school; there is not discrimination in education any more. By sharing the same education level, playing on the same ground, hanging out with friends regularly, these activities can probably can help children have a right and fully understanding about their friends who come from different countries in the world. Even though the children are too young to fully explain what stereotypes or racism mean, they know that it is not fair to treat others different just because of their skin colors. The children were firstly born with their minds that are as white as papers; it is the adults who write stereotypes down on the children’ minds. If the adults stop doing any stereotypic actions against each other, the children cannot learn from them. And if children do not bear any stereotype in their mind, their next generations also will