From your personal experiences and research, what other media stereotypes (besides he example from the documentary "Reel Bad Arabs")
have you seen either on TV, magazines or in the movies?
I think almost everyone have watch at least one Hollywood movie before, did you notice that all the bad guy that act in the movie are often play by black people, or those Asian actor that they find will be stick with certain type of feature such as, slit eyes. This is one of the stereotypes that bring by media. All these movie told us that Asian people must come with typical slit eyes. Although i can't say that black people is bad guy, but automatically i will feel unsafe to look at them, it is because from the movie we have been taught that black people are bad. This is the power of media stereotypes.
We often get to see sexy lady or pretty lady as the cover page for certain magazines, especially fashion magazines. In order to be sexy and pretty, people will start to learn their wearing style that show in the magazines. That is why we often get to see pretty model as cover page, you will be super hard to find a cover page with a super ugly model. You wouldn't buy a magazines that come with such cover page, because you know it will not be a fashion magazine that you want to look for.
TV, another media that bring us a lot of stereotypes. Take an example, after watching a TV advertisement, people will wanted to buy the product, in order to be as cool as the model that show in the advertisement. Product such as LV, Gucci and Coach have attracted so many female buyer to purchase their product, it's like owning their product, they will feel like proud with it, they will be consider as high class people. This is one of the stereotypes that bring by the media. Advertisement have it's own power to set up stereotypes, influence the society's mind.
We can't deny that we are not getting influence by the media. Media have bring a lot of stereotypes to us. This is the power of media.
People follow the way those models wear mostly just to attract guys because they know guys love these kind of things. Due to media, guys tend to be more and more picky when they choose their partners, so the women will try to please the men with their sexiness or whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteAbout the branded goods, people will look at you in a different way if you use branded products like what you've mentioned above. Well, the most influenced people are the women because of all these advertisements that brainwashed their minds.
Vicky, I think the same as well . The bad guys in movies are always the black or the Muslims. I think that this is very bad, when media start to stereotype people according to their race. In fact, the only movie which I have seen that does not stereotype muslims is Kite Runner. But then again, that movie was not your typical hollywood movie as it was adapted from a novel. I really love the book! I just wish that the media would stop stereotyping muslims and arabs but instead produce movies like Kite Runner that tells us that all humans are the same and that we are no different from one another.
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ReplyDelete"...you will be super hard to find a cover page with a super ugly model. You wouldn't buy a magazines that come with such cover page, cause you know it will not be a fashion magazine that you want to look for."
This is really true. People get attract 1st by the cover of the magazines, then they wear like it in order to make themselves feel more pretty like the model on the cover of the magazines, they doing it without realising. So when the magazines cover is with a super ugly model, there will probably nobody wan to buy it because they'll feel the clothes or accessories promoting in such magazines sure not good and they won't look nice wearing them.