Arguments Against Western Ideals
An American Citizen Against the Western Ideals
An average American teenager is what Jose Garcia embodies. He has a loving family, he has friends and he goes to school. Yet at school, he has difficulties latching on to the curriculum, and he has some problems with the teachers as well. His friend’s parents give him funny looks. His parent worry about the net presidential election as their cousins’ lives are threatened. An average American teenage with struggles deriving from his race. Many teenagers and children alike come across the same problems when it comes to living in America. America prides themselves the title of ‘the melting pot’, yet the racism the country was built upon still bubbles in the cauldron. Western viewpoint with internalized
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In Diane Burns’ Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question, she is heavily stereotyped once she reveals that she is Native American as portrayed, “No, I didn’t major in archery. Yeah a lot of us drink too much.”(31, 32) The western viewpoint with internalized racism has followed with European settlers into America and still remains today as they continue the stereotypes associated with Native Americans. Western attitudes not only see the white majority superior than the rest but create stereotypes that people of different backgrounds must face and fight against while living in America. These stereotypes are harmful as they can’t practice their culture or have racial features without being criminalized by western views. Illustrated in An Indian Father’s Plea, Wind-Wolf recognizes the negative portrayal of Native Americans by Western media. Western attitudes fuel western media in which the media displays racial stereotypes of people from different backgrounds with no confrontation. Western attitudes focus upon the aspects of different people that can be mocked than the aspects that should be respected and praised. As Western attitudes infuse into America, people of different backgrounds are the victim of mockery and shame through
The Negative Stereotypes Of Native Americans
294 Words | 2 PagesAs with other stereotypes with other cultures, the Native American stereotype needs to be addressed by the
Analysis Of Skraeling By Qitsualik
753 Words | 4 PagesEveryone has been in a situation where they’ve judged someone before ever even getting to know and understand them. Many Native Americans feel that they are often misjudged, and this is often reflected in their literature, as in Rachel A. Qitsualik’s “Skraeling”. Qitsualik’s story involves racism and discrimination. In “Skraeling”, Qitsualik shows the reader that the Vikings, Tunit, and Inuit had no basis for the prejudice between them. Siaq refused to return to the Inuit because she no longer felt as though she’d belonged.
Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror
743 Words | 3 PagesIn the book A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki, he argues that the “Master Narrative of American History” does not accurately reflect the meaning behind what it means to be an American, because this country is populated by immigrants from around the world. Therefore, Takaki wrote this book to make us look into a different mirror and showing us a more inclusive outlook by reflecting us the true history of America that includes Native Americans. Many also lack information about the history of several other ethnicities and for that reason, society created a construction through a separation between the minorities and whites. By conveying the history of the original settlers who have been inhabiting America, Takaki is able to exclude many people’s mentality that the history of whites are more superior than other racial minorities, in which have made them feel unimportant because of their lifestyle, when America is a country of all people, and not only
Stereotypes In The Film Menace II Society
769 Words | 4 PagesStereotypes in media have been around since the earliest cartoons were drawn. The media gives supposedly identifying traits with images of the stingy Jewish man, the single Hispanic woman cleaning homes to raise her three children, and the “butch” lesbian falling for the beautiful blonde who just happens to glance at her every day in the hallway. These portrayals make up general knowledge about minorities for a lot of people, but their accuracy is questionable at best. While production companies have been making strides towards the better, insufficient representation in the media tends to portray minorities as their negative stereotypes rather than as people.
Summary Of Thunder In My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks
105 Words | 1 PagesMonture Angus, a law professor and member of the Mohawk Nation, shares in this peer reviewed article, [Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks] by Native American women, that the society is allowing misleading representation to take away from their culture, she expresses that we should “- Understand it, understand where the pain comes from and why. I have to struggle with that...without understanding, (it) does not mean anything, does not reflect reality, and does not reflect people's experiences,” although her view is bias, it’s a very valid point, that we should understand that what we seek out as ineffective, is truly damaging
Analysis Of Se Habla Espanol
340 Words | 2 PagesIn “Se Habla Espanol,” Tanya Barrientos elaborates on her personal experience growing up in the United States. In the first couple decades of her life, Barrientos distanced herself from her cultural roots fearing that she would be judge and belittle. It was essential for Barrientos to fit in with the American society. Barrientos formats the short story where she is speaking from firsthand experience.
Peggy Viramontes 'White Privilege And Can We Talk'
185 Words | 1 PagesDuring a time in which immigration is a popular public interest, past works such as Arturo Torres’ “Wetback,” Helen Viramontes’ “Under the Feet of Jesus,” Peggy McIntosh’s “White Privilege,” and Beverly Tatum’s “Can We Talk?” show how mass media’s stereotypes are reflective of society’s depiction of poor Hispanic immigrants, impact their ability to function in society, and showcase the importance of stereotypes and how we have actually come. Society’s view of minority groups are usually seen in the media, and vice versa. Today, America is struggling with their take on immigration of Hispanic immigrants into our country. With this, the idea that the general population has of Hispanic immigrants comes from the media, whose depiction of certain
Summary: Custer Died For Your Sins
1682 Words | 7 PagesHe will invariably have a thin sexy wife with stringy hair, an IQ of 191, and a vocabulary in which even the prepositions have eleven syllables” (79). In this text, Deloria argues how anthropologists purposely contrast themselves from Indians on reservations with how they dress to show their overwhelming wealth and intelligence over Indians while also crudely mocking how anthropologists pretend to be hierarchical snobs. High school students would be intrigued with the sass Deloria uses in his writing. Another appropriate type of reading would be Native Americans’ personal narratives of their own experiences on colonization, American politics, cultural appropriation, and more. Dawnland Voices edited by Siobhan Senier, for instance, would be a spectacular reading for this proposed class since it includes intimate indigenous short stories, poems, and writings from the New England region.
Analysis Of Reel Injun By Neil Diamond
320 Words | 2 PagesNeil Diamond 's documentary “Reel Injun” depicts the historical portrayal of the treatment of the First Nations in America. It brings awareness to the truth behind not only First Nations, but other stereotyped groups. For example, that many people often mistake all members of the Muslim community as Extremists who commit inhumane acts of terrorism. Small percentages of the population who fit the stereotyped criteria may often unintentionally represent their background negatively and as a whole. These are then misinterpreted by society ultimately having a biased view on groups of people.
Racism In Sherman Alexie's Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven?
750 Words | 3 PagesOnce European men stepped foot onto what is now known as North America, the lives of the Native Americans were forever changed. The Indians suffered centuries of torment and ridicule from the settlers in America. Despite the reservations made for the Natives, there are still cultural issues occurring within America. In Sherman Alexie’s, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, the tragic lives of Native Americans in modern society are depicted in a collection of short stories taking place in the Spokane Reservation in Washington state. Throughout the collection, a prominent and reoccurring melancholic theme of racism against Native Americans and their struggle to cope with such behavior from their counterpart in this modern day and age is shown.
The Noble Or Ignoble Savage: A Cultural Appropriation Of American Culture
1494 Words | 6 PagesEven though America has become quite the diverse place with diverse cultures, the cultural appropriation found within the American society contributes to the loss of multiple minority culture’s identity. Native Americans are one of the minority groups most heavily impacted by cultural appropriation. From offensive sports, many American Indians feel as though their cultural identities are lost in the mass of stereotypes and false representations of them in popular culture. In literature and film, Indians are too often portrayed as some variation of “the Noble or Ignoble Savage” (Gordon, 30), violent and uneducated, and it is easy to imagine how this negative representation inspires resentment in the Native American community, who have no interest in having their cultures and peoples being reduced to mere savages,
Misrepresentation Of Native Americans
1058 Words | 5 PagesThe media today consists of a huge diversity of different things. This is because the United States is known as the melting pot country and today 's society doesn 't understand the real history of the Native American people. They are easily one of the top most underrepresented cultures and people in the media in today’s world. This is why there are stereotypes of them throughout the media. Native Americans are stereotyped in many ways such as in movies, tv shows, books, etc.
Persuasive Speech About Native American Culture
946 Words | 4 PagesThe final concern in which needs to be addressed is the fact that these negative stereotypes of Native Americans make it very dangerous for them because of the rise of crime rates against the Natives. The rates for crimes against the Natives has increased and puts many of them in danger. These crimes are classified as hate crimes because of the fact that these crimes are done in hatred of them as a people and not a personal cause. According to Department of Justice analysis, "American Indians are more likely than people of other races to experience violence at the hands of someone of a different race." These factors only show that we need to take serious actions soon in order to prevent this violence to continue before its too
The Iroquois Creation Story
1106 Words | 5 PagesThey are often labeled as uncivilized barbarians, which is a solely false accusation against them. This paper aims to address the similarities between Native American beliefs and the beliefs of other cultures based on The Iroquois Creation Story in order to defeat the stereotype that Natives are regularly defined by. Native Americans are commonly considered uncivilized, savage, and barbarian. Nevertheless, in reality the Natives are not characterized by any of those negative traits, but rather they inhabit positive characteristics such as being wise, polite, tolerant, civilized, harmonious with nature, etc. They have had a prodigious impact on the Puritans
Importance Of Diversity In The Media
1587 Words | 7 PagesNot only does the media have a scarcely portrayal of minorities, but when they do, they repetitively show them in a repetitive negative manner, which is how stereotypes form. For example, when Michael Nam discusses how the news chooses to depict a person in a certain manner because of that person’s race “The type of coverage that gets chosen by editorial staffs then reinforce stereotypes rather than clarifies the news. This is apparent in the different ways white subjects and black subjects are portrayed, such as black victim Michael Brown, who ‘struggled with police before the shooting,’ versus white Aurora shooter James Eagan Holmes, remembered as a ‘brilliant science student’ ” (Nam
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