~Media Stereotypes~

From your personal experiences and research, what other media stereotypes (besides the example from the documentary "Reel Bad Arabs") have you seen either on TV, magazines or in the movies?

When talk about media stereotypes in movies and TV, it sure reminds me of middle age guy with black beard which have a feel like Saddam is always be the bad guy in movies. Besides that, in those action movies which have those bodygaurd character, they must be wearing sunglasses and looks serious, and mostly are men with the feel of "Man In Black".

Then, in the other way, it also another stereotypes contains in TV or movies is the American or western whites are usually potrait as rich, there rarely can saw them act as poor people, while African or blacks are always potrait as poor peoples or uneducated peoples. Other than that, other places peoples like Asians act in English movies usually have some kind of weird slang when they talk in english, although actually there is a lot peoples which is not from western country are able to talk very proper english.

For the stereotypes that always appear in magazines are we usually saw famous actor, actress or singers are use in the cover pages for magazines. The publisher usually use their popularity to attract the readers, and when it comes to gossips, those popular actor, actress or singers are always the one become topics and used in cover pages. It become the stereotypes of entertainment magazines. While for fashion magazines, the stereotype of it is always pretty girls or sexy girls, or handsome guys. We saw the cover styles we can know that its a fashion magazines.

Media stereotypes are really affecting us so much, and we usually get used to it without we knowing it. As for example, in the reality, when we saw peoples or whites from the western country, we used to get the feeling that they must be rich, while when saw African and blacks, we won't put them the same group or level as those whites from western country, thats the "ugly" facts; which we suppose should not judge others by how they look. But we just automatically got such feel because we used to their appearance in the movies, without we knowing it that we automatically judge those in reality base on the stereotypes created in movies.