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2.24 Class Discussion

2.24 Class Discussion

Q 2.24 Analysis of cultural representations - Class Discussion Instructions: 1. As you watch the videos, pay careful attention to what the narrators say about how stereotypes function in American Society. 2. Post a discussion entry (10 lines) where you discuss how the video addresses the question of why these kinds of stereotypes exist in American culture. Make sure to refer to the conceptual framework of the question we are addressing in this project about why cultures and communities create the other. 3. Comment on one other post (7 lines).

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The Other is mostly formed, at least nowadays, by what the media or rumors that are spread from the masses. Now, that I am thinking about it, I did not agree with a lot of things that were put out about trump but I never met him or was in the room to hear his true perspective on a lot of subjects; Once things are put out into the media, their job is to twist the story depending on what their target audience wants to see and here. Rihanna, for example, is from Barbados and she said at the beginning of her career she was always assumed to be stuck up or mean because, where she was from, you don't speak unless you're spoken to and here in America, along with her deadpan facial expression, can be taken out of context.