What is there to be said about stereotyping in the media?
Stereotyping is very common in the media nowadays. It is shown throughout the media, in television, newspapers and radio, usually in the news. Stereotyping is in every newspaper, although only usually gets noticed in a big nationwide/worldwide story, such as the “September 11th” stories in the newspapers and also on the television, they stereotyped Arabs/Afghans as all being terrorists, and what was before a race accepting country, had now turned into what was a racist, stereotyping country. I suppose now most of it has died down and all the hype of it has gone, but for those few months after the attack, these minority groups were outcast from society, even children were discriminated against in schools, after what they had heard on television. This is a negative part of stereotyping; that children who watch parts of the news and/or hear their parents talking about how this Afghan/Arab man had attacked America and killed lots of people. They then, after hearing this, unintentionally stereotype these people as terrorists and people who kill other people, and also then, doing what they think is right, discriminate any people in their school/class that are from that minority group. Therefore concluding that stereotyping in the media
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