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Gender Representation In The Media

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MEDIA REPRESENTATION: ETHNIC AND RACIAL
The evolution of news media from being print gave birth to television which enabled the media to reach more people from different corners of the world. Presently it is difficult to avoid news media, unless if you were to isolate yourself from the rest of the world. Radio broadcasters, TV, newspapers as well as the internet flood us with information from the comfort of our private homes and businesses, a lot of people rely on this information to understand what it is happening around them locally or internationally. However, if news media passes on inaccurate information most people would still believe it to be true. Well-presented messages can easily be mistaken for news and they can be you used to …show more content…

There will always be a stereotype associated with that racial group. For example when Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie author of “The danger of a single story” first appeared on Tedtalk, she explains how Americans were surprised to how similar she was to them when she first arrived in United States from Africa. American people had always had this perception that Africans were starving and didn’t have access to education, more especially women. The University graduate with a Master’s degree from Yale University said due to the way that Africa is being portrayed by the media, most people know it as a third world country filled with starving people. Since most people believe what the media tells them, Americans became so close minded about Africa and Africans as …show more content…

The way these actors use bad language and vocabulary, as well as being overly dramatic in everything that they say or do sends the wrong message to people watching those programmes with their children as well as people who could be watching worldwide. It is mainly because the people who create and write these shows are not of the Nguni speaking tribes, and they're only designing these characters based on what they have seen over the past years. Whether it is or it isn't, the representation of Xhosa speaking people on television shows as well as in the media are mainly being depicted from people's point of views that are not our own. Reality is that from the same people (Xhosas) came intellectuals as well freedom fighters like Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Thabo Mbeki and many

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