Stereotype
Stereotyping
I remember a story of my classmate. She was an international student and about to take a class at our community college. “Are you sure taking this class?” asked the advisor with a suspected voice, “This class requires diligent students and most Asian just like to hang around with their friend and forget their homework”. “Of course, I do,” she answered with a little of anger and then calmed herself down, “I know how hard myself should do.” She was very disappointed and felt like being insulted. That is discrimination. The advisor’s attitude, the way she treated Asian student, is it because of stereotyping? The “The Hollywood Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus” of Rick Najera and “Cops by Day, Targets by Night; Stop-and-frisks Also Happen to NYPD Officers” by Sam Levin have pointed out evidences and their solutions to stereotyping.
Not only Asian being treated as a victim of stereotype, Latinos and Black people are even worse. Najera shows in “The Hollywood Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus” that Latinos only plays the role of drug lords, gangster, maid, or “illegal immigrants” in Hollywood movies. And in “Cops…,” Sam Levin proves a fact based on a recent report from the New York Civil Liberties Union, ‘Last year, the NYPD stopped and interrogated people 685,724 times – nine out of 10 ultimately weren’t arrested or ticketed, and about 87 percent of those stopped in 2011 were black or Latino ’.
However, in both “Cops…” and “Hollywod Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus”, two authors neither give their own ideas about the cause nor any evidence shows the reason of the happening of stereotype.
As a matter of fact, Black people and Latinos are being looked down on in our society. “It’s the young White male writers who decide what we’ll consume, see, and believe about the world around us.” Najera says in “The Hollywood Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus”, “Writers have the power to change our perspective when it comes to race and culture in this country.” It is easy
I remember a story of my classmate. She was an international student and about to take a class at our community college. “Are you sure taking this class?” asked the advisor with a suspected voice, “This class requires diligent students and most Asian just like to hang around with their friend and forget their homework”. “Of course, I do,” she answered with a little of anger and then calmed herself down, “I know how hard myself should do.” She was very disappointed and felt like being insulted. That is discrimination. The advisor’s attitude, the way she treated Asian student, is it because of stereotyping? The “The Hollywood Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus” of Rick Najera and “Cops by Day, Targets by Night; Stop-and-frisks Also Happen to NYPD Officers” by Sam Levin have pointed out evidences and their solutions to stereotyping.
Not only Asian being treated as a victim of stereotype, Latinos and Black people are even worse. Najera shows in “The Hollywood Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus” that Latinos only plays the role of drug lords, gangster, maid, or “illegal immigrants” in Hollywood movies. And in “Cops…,” Sam Levin proves a fact based on a recent report from the New York Civil Liberties Union, ‘Last year, the NYPD stopped and interrogated people 685,724 times – nine out of 10 ultimately weren’t arrested or ticketed, and about 87 percent of those stopped in 2011 were black or Latino ’.
However, in both “Cops…” and “Hollywod Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus”, two authors neither give their own ideas about the cause nor any evidence shows the reason of the happening of stereotype.
As a matter of fact, Black people and Latinos are being looked down on in our society. “It’s the young White male writers who decide what we’ll consume, see, and believe about the world around us.” Najera says in “The Hollywood Lens on Latinos is Out of Focus”, “Writers have the power to change our perspective when it comes to race and culture in this country.” It is easy