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Stereotyping And Prejudice In The Media

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The media does a lot of help to perpetuate stereotyping and prejudice by showing them television, newspaper and etc thing that make people have strong believe that is accurate. Example a black teen stole a bike from a store, people will make him a song and influence other that all black people stole bikes which when you talk about bike people will not first think of a bike but an joke that black person stealing bike. This is when prejudice came in because stealing a bike is a criminal offense which people will have a negative view on black people. The media is to easy to access to make kid that is growing up can easily absorbed it and eventually they spit it out later. Which continued in generation and generation. Like the word “ni***” it was first spread in a television show and everyone is using it referring black people. The word actually mean black slave, which other races will discriminate them because how they are more higher classes and create prejudice about them. Slave are usually dirty and stupid so people will start to have negative imagination about black people. Example a white woman went into a bus with only one seat left, right next to her is a black guy sitting next to the seat. If the black guy has a gloomy outlook , the woman wont seat down or unwilling to seat because of their …show more content…

We are all prejudice is someway, we learn stereotype as a child and as we grow up the prejudice you have learn will come bigger and bigger. Like Disney movie in 1940’s people always illustrate Hitler as a moron and killer, but Hitler isn't stupid he led the Germans win a couple of war. The solution to this is to let people feel prejudice so that they can learn the feeling when you are prejudice by

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