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Examples Of African American Stereotypes

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Prejudice, racism, discrimination, these three words are base pillars of developing stereotypes. Stereotype isn’t a natural behavior but, a learned behavior and it comes both directly and indirectly from popular culture all across the globe. For instance, African Americans are looked down upon because stereotypes portray them to be lazy, incompetent, loud, dirty, abusive, and money hungry. One example, the famous movie, “Scary Movie 2”, the character known as, Smokey, is a African American male whom takes part of alcohol consumption, smokes marijuana, vulgar, and express his intellect as street smart rather than, book smart. Music videos display African Americans to be focused on reaching three primary goals: doing drugs, making money by selling
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