Stereotypes Of Internalized Oppression

Thesis draft: Osajima believes and supports with several references to other writers that internalized oppression could potentially have a dehumanizing impact on society, more and more people begin to fall into the abyss of oppression Keith Osajima a professor at the School of Education in the University of Redlands, realized, while teaching an Asian American Contemporary Issues course, in the University of California Santa Cruz, the modern impact of internalized oppression in people such as asian college students. Internalized oppression is the idea in which a person, who is being oppressed, stops fighting back and falls through the crack of oppression. In this process, the oppressed slowly begins to believe in the misleading stereotypes

Some social issues that predominantly affect the oppressed are: adultism, hetrosexism, ablesim, ageism, sexism, classism and racism. The sub oppressors, are bystanders from the oppressed group whom are still directly affected by the oppressor but, take on roles of oppressors against their own. Osajima acknowledges that women are being oppressed by the media, “ We recognize sexism in media images of women.” Women are expected, by society, to wear makeup and the latest clothing trends in order to look beautiful. This is shown in advertisement throughout every form of media. Television advertisements, for example, portray women as thin silhouettes, impeccable, porcelain skin and long shiny hair. When a woman tells another to wear makeup they are being the sub oppressors, by implying that she has to live the standards set by society when she herself has to live by it too but not only are they oppression they are also sustaining internalized oppression. Internalized oppression is being sustain because we start to believe in the unrealities that depict us. The oppressor are the “superior” people, in the case of ableism, people without any mental or physical disability or hetrosexuals in the circumstance of hetrosexism, this people attack thei oppressed with assumptions, stereotypes and

Frantz Fanon explains, that ultimately it, “forces the people it dominates to ask themselves the question constantly: In reality, who am ‘I”?” Oppression makes people question if they can really make something out of their lives or if they are prolong to failure. Eventually the oppressed begin to conclude that they deserve that life they have because of themselves and not because their relationship with society, or how society describes