Definition:
1) ethnic traits, background, allegiance, or association
2) an ethnic group: representatives of several ethnicities were present
Stereotypes:
Asian People- rich, business people, religious, have been portrayed as terrorists, good at making curry. own cornershops. big families and all live in one house with all relatives.
Travellers- AKA gypsies, usually irish/foreign (bulgarian/romanian). fun fairs, live in caravans, take over peoples land and destroy it. make mess and steal. lack in education. wear vests and jeans and slobber everywhere sometimes long haired. women wear big dresses and gold hooped earrings. british/irish travellers prefer being called 'travellers'.
Polish People- cheap labour, poor, young families, own kebab/chicken/pizza shops. take all of our jobs, eg builders.
Examples of Stereotypes:
GYPSIES- only represent a small number but paints a very negative picture when really we know they are not all bad.
Waterloo Road- moved caravans onto school grounds and caused conflict and upset alot of people so police got involved.
Simpsons- house got ake over by gypsies and had to fight theyre way back in and drove them out.
POLISH- shows that stereptypical views can be changed.
Corontaion Street- two polish girls who Carla employed (immigrants)
ASIAN-
Eastenders- the Masoods, they run their own business, and a curry place and have a typical indian accent.
Masood have recently been praised as being one of the most realisitc 'ethnic' families in the soap land. Stereotypical-owning a corner shop, subject to racially motivated attacks.
Syed is gay which goes against the stereotypical religions of muslims.
The Brown Race
- 'Brown' often the genreal term used to describe the category of South Asian races.
- alothough there are several countries who make up part of this geographcial area, mostly indians are stereotyped.
- hollywood films stereotyping: Bend it like Beckham, Tessa Perkins
- Asian women- doctors or accountants, not artists
- Black men- lazy, promiscuous, bad fathers, obsessed with rap music
- Black women- were obsessed with how much money a man earned and were 'strait laced'
- Asian people- invaders, karate experts
- Hispanic people- comics, banditos, gang members
- Native Americans- savages, victims, cowards, medicine men
- Middle Eastern people- terrorists, oil sheiks
- 'On TV, black people are depicted as poor nearly twice as often as their true incidence'
- Black people stereotyped as criminals and late arrivers
- White people cant dance
- Asians own corner shops in England
- mainly black men
- crime
- living in slums
- on welfare
- need help from community
- less intelligent
- over sexual
- dumb blondes
- greedy
- materialistic
- businessmen
- middle/upperclass
- posh/well spoken
- doctors
- engineers
- mathematics
- newsagents- small businesses-entrepreneurs
- ignorant
- intelligent
- extremely smart
- men are threats to women
- insensitive
- disrespectful towards women
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