Representation of Ethnicity

Stereotypes

Asian:
Rich, business people, religous, they're often portrayed as terrorists or making curry. Own cornershops. Big families all in one house with lots of relatives. Either portrayed as really positively (business, rich) or the other extreme negatively, (terrorists).

Travelles (Gypsies):
Are typically Irish/foreign. People associate them with fun fairs, living in caravans, taking over peoples land and destroy it. Make a mess an steal. Lacking in education. Wear vests + jeans, mess everywhere, sometimes long hair. Women wear big dresses and hooped gold earrings. Tell fortunes.

Polish people: cheap labour. Poor. Have young families. Own kebab, chicken, pizza shops. Take all of our jobs. e.g builders.


Examples of stereotypes

Gypsies:
In waterloo road, they moved their caravans onto the school grounds, many people were unhappy and they confronted them with conflict. Caused many problems and the police got involved.
Also in the Simpsons, Homer's house got taken over by gypsies, had to fight way in a drive them out.
These two examples only represent a small number of gypsies, but these stereotypes paint a negative picture when realistically we know they are not all bad.

Polish people:
In Coronation street, two polish girls who Carla employed. Both illegal immigrants and one of them died so Carla covered it up and hid her body. Other one, caried on working, no one liked her. She was a good worker, tried to make friends. After a while people began to like her and she was then treated like everyone else.
Show stereotypical views can be changed.

Asian people:
Masoods in Eastenders have their own business which is typical of a Muslim family. Own a curry place and are good at making it, which is a typical representationof an Asian family. They speak in a typical Indian accent.
Indeed the Masoods have recently been praised as one of the most realistic 'ethnic' families to have ever inhabited soap land. Subjected to typical storylines; being subjected to racist ttacks
We also have seen one of them realsie he is gay, bends the stereotypical view on Muslims.

'Brown race'
General term used to describe the category of South Asian races, though there are several countries who make up most of this area. Indians are stereotyped.
Indians are the 'comic relief' for dominant white culture, including ridiculing other countries such as Sri Lanka or Bangladesh



Bend it like beckham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmbObwStSQ
Emphasizes the overarching patriarchal structure of Indian people, stereotypes it
Indian people are portrayed to be culturally backward, as compared to Westen sensibilites
Cannot escape the illusion of typical Indians


Tessa Perkins
She said that all stereotypes have a BIT of truth, which makest them plausible. Eg: she said that most terrorists are muslim BUT; not all Muslims are terrorists.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivd0oXr5f-g&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFhzFRoiM3Q&feature=related STEREOTYPE- NORMALLY VIEWED NEGATIVELY
Positive representations called- corrective stereotypes, where NEW ideas are created about a previous group to change our view about them.


Race:
-Typical asian woman- 'doctors or accountants/not artists'
-Black man- 'being lazy, promiscous, bad fathers and obsessed with rap'

-Black women were obsessed with how much money a man earned and were 'straight laced' compared to white women when it came to sex.

Asian people- perceived as invaders or karate experts

Hispanic people- comics, banditos or gang members
Native americans- Savages, victims, cowards, or medicine men

Middle east- seen as terrorists or oil sheiks. In video games 79%shown verbally and physically agressive compared to 57% of white males.

''On TV, black people are depicited as poor nearly twice as much as often as their true incidence''
''Black people tend to be stereotyped as criminal''
''Black people are stereotyped as late arrivers''
''White people can't dance''.

Black people

Usually linked to black men, Crime, Living in slums, On welfare, Need help from community, Less intelligent ,Over sexual

White people

Dumb blondes, Greedy, Materialistic, Businessmen , Middle/upper class, Posh/ well spoken

Asian people

Doctors, Engineers, Mathematicians, Newsagents- small businesses – entrepreneur, Ignorant, Extremely smart people, Men are threats to white women, Insensitive, Disrespectful towards women