Racism In Australia
Racism encouranged through the media
The problem. We’ve all come across it, we’ve all heard about it, we’ve all talked about changing it for the better. Racism. It is known that forty per cent of Australia’s population are immigrants from around two hundred different countries. On the ‘Come to Australia’ website, a website designed to encourage immigrants, it claims that “Australians’ value the wealth of cultural diversity and the social sophistication that international immigrants bring to our communities.” However, I have seen otherwise and this type of discrimination in such a ‘tolerant’ society is unacceptable.
According to Dr. Murray from the American Psychological Association, humans are not born racist, however with our nation’s …show more content…
On the 6th of April, Current Affair broadcasted ‘Foreign prop investors, watch how our Governments are stealing out the country from underneath our feet’, a report stating that Australians, I quote, “are not as wealthy as some foreigners, therefore not having a fair go”. What the media has done in this case is position the audience to be against foreigners buying Australian houses, therefore putting forward the idea of Australia being ‘invaded’, consequently promoting the unhealthy idea that foreigners are becoming too powerful and should be …show more content…
The first line in this report was, “Welcome to Australia, where you can be pushed out of your place to make way for the immigrants. Some immigrants are willing to work harder for longer shifts, therefore threatening the Australian way of life.” Yes, lines such as these immediately capture the audience’s attention, but at what cost? By using these simple, attention grabbing terms like ‘threatening’, which is what journalists describe as ‘word-psychology’, it is noted by the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) to reinforce around eighty-five per cent of negative stereotypes of immigrants. These accusations are wrong, misleading and demonstrate paranoia towards migrants.
Another example of this is when the media turns a story originally about one ethnic Australian into a change to smear an entire ethnic community. By displaying certain images such as Vietnamese flags, Chinese flags and so forth, the media influences the audience to subconsciously make unjust generalizations about the whole race. However, no matter what you say, mentioning a specific country or race in such a way can and often spark racial discrimination issues among different
The problem. We’ve all come across it, we’ve all heard about it, we’ve all talked about changing it for the better. Racism. It is known that forty per cent of Australia’s population are immigrants from around two hundred different countries. On the ‘Come to Australia’ website, a website designed to encourage immigrants, it claims that “Australians’ value the wealth of cultural diversity and the social sophistication that international immigrants bring to our communities.” However, I have seen otherwise and this type of discrimination in such a ‘tolerant’ society is unacceptable.
According to Dr. Murray from the American Psychological Association, humans are not born racist, however with our nation’s …show more content…
On the 6th of April, Current Affair broadcasted ‘Foreign prop investors, watch how our Governments are stealing out the country from underneath our feet’, a report stating that Australians, I quote, “are not as wealthy as some foreigners, therefore not having a fair go”. What the media has done in this case is position the audience to be against foreigners buying Australian houses, therefore putting forward the idea of Australia being ‘invaded’, consequently promoting the unhealthy idea that foreigners are becoming too powerful and should be …show more content…
The first line in this report was, “Welcome to Australia, where you can be pushed out of your place to make way for the immigrants. Some immigrants are willing to work harder for longer shifts, therefore threatening the Australian way of life.” Yes, lines such as these immediately capture the audience’s attention, but at what cost? By using these simple, attention grabbing terms like ‘threatening’, which is what journalists describe as ‘word-psychology’, it is noted by the National Opinion Research Centre (NORC) to reinforce around eighty-five per cent of negative stereotypes of immigrants. These accusations are wrong, misleading and demonstrate paranoia towards migrants.
Another example of this is when the media turns a story originally about one ethnic Australian into a change to smear an entire ethnic community. By displaying certain images such as Vietnamese flags, Chinese flags and so forth, the media influences the audience to subconsciously make unjust generalizations about the whole race. However, no matter what you say, mentioning a specific country or race in such a way can and often spark racial discrimination issues among different