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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Racism and Our Younger Generations

As the young generation of todays society grows older, affectionate and interpenetrate media be bonny increasingly more influential. In a world where everything any mavin sees is ever cosmos shared, liked, and posted or reposted by peers, teens are being brainwashed to accept what the media says is touristy  or correct . Racism, among more an some other(prenominal) of other prejudices in the world, is one of the very things being pushed on young adults and teenagers through the profit and social media apps, as well as newspapers, books and Television.\nThe short hi novel The Medias Image of Arabs Written by Jack G. Shaheen is intimately the Arabs of innovative society (and maybe withal historical society) who are forever and a day being judgmented as the heavy(a) cat-o-nine-tails or the lesser man in American movies, television shows, and books. Shaheen wrote, A mental lexicon informed my youngsters that an Arab is a vagabond, drifter, can and vagrant.  (pg 86) Even one of the approximately official of books includes stereotypical definitions of what a certain person is ground on their culture and/or skin color. Shaheen also wrote about American television shows which broadcast the Arab as the bad guy of the show. These racial separations and injustices still devolve today in many television shows and can be seen daily. Shaheen wrote When all image-makers rightfully part to treat Arabs and all other minorities with respect and dignity, we may convey to unlearn our prejudices.  (pg 87). This quote is a subtle way of congress the leaders of the media (society) that if they give up showcasing racial discrimination, racism would not exist. Although there are other things which influence and apprize racism to people, racism entrust slowly come to a halt when the internet, books, and papers stop making racism the ever-living subject of America. \nZora Neal Hurstons short story How It Feels to be Colored Me is a view of rac ism from her declare perspective the eyes, mind, and soul of a black woman. Hurston does not view ra...

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