Before I get into the main idea of this post, stereotypical representation, I really need to comment on the fact that the material in 3 of the 4 classes I’m currently taking right now overlap with each other!
In class on Tuesday, a group presented on “Media, Ethnicity, and Diaspora.” One of the topics they covered was “stereotypical representation.” Specifically, they talked about how the media portrays certain images of Western Life that creates stereotypes. This immediately reminded me of a discussion my Global Studies class had a few weeks ago. We were talking about an article by Appadurai (who was also featured in our text for his “scapes,” called “Grassroots Globalization in the Era of Ideocide.” The article “hates on” American life. It argues that people like the freedom America has to offer, but they don’t like what Americans have done with this freedom, especially in the case of sexual morality. In other words, the media has created a stereotypical representation of Americans, and makes the life we life undesirable for outsiders of our culture.
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