Factors Influence Social Perception

Social perception is the study of how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people. People learn about others' feelings and emotions by picking up information they gather from physical appearance, verbal, and nonverbal communication. Many factors influence social perception, and there is no single cause of why we perceive people in a certain way. Several things attribute to what molds our social conception of others, a few of them being, characteristics of those you are observing, your past experiences, and the context of the situation. With that in mind, I am going to explain how the entertainment industry has perpetuated the idea of white superiority and molded the social perceptions of those today. First, I will show

The logical conclusion would be that work would be done to change this. It should be easy to have an open casting for roles and allow characters who are traditionally white be a different race. Don't mistake blind castings for open ones. Choose to see color rather than claim to be blind, and open the way for people of all shades, shapes, and sizes to be cast. See color and purposely choose a Filipino man to be the desirable love interest. Let the ordinarily white heroine be Indian or make the love interest black. Don't use derogatory jokes about ethnic groups for the sake of laughs or subtly throw in stereotypes that define a character. Make minorities more complex and develop their personality, struggles, and conflicts beyond the surface. Give them the love, respect and intricately thought out dialogue and background you would provide to a white character. The entertainment industry should work to include people of color into the narrative and make tv shows and films that allow children to see themselves represented. Personally, I never saw myself portrayed onscreen as a love interest, and when a black woman was cast in a movie, she either had eurocentric features and got all of the attention- or more so the objectification- because of it. She was used for comedic relief and was angry, single and robust. Black women that I saw onscreen were always expected to be hard, guarded and never the subject of a man's affection. I did not see myself as being capable of just being soft, sensitive and pretty. In school I was always considered mean at first glance and told I looked angry, though I barely said a thing. This is what many people of color have to go through on a day to day basis. Change needs to be made. We can't allow directors to get away with "white-washing" a film. Rules should be