Dharavi Stereotypes

I remember the first time someone asked me if my dad owned a gas station, “get it? ‘Cause you’re Indian,” Kids have been throwing Indian stereotypes at me since I was little, but I’ve never known exactly how to react. I’ve always felt it would be strange to snap back and defend myself indignantly since in actuality I’m not Indian at all. Both my parents are Mexican which makes these “jokes” funny, but in a very different way. After so many encounters like this I’ve learned how to explain and embrace my actual culture, which is a skill I had to master on my own.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a film that features a character, Jamil Malik, who lives in Dubai and is considered an ignorant young boy. Jamil Malik had never went to school or college and would not have known any of the answers for the game show, “Who wants to be a Millionaire” but was given the prejudge of being on the show because he grew up in the slums of India. Jamil’s life experiences allowed him an

Analyse the representation of a race, class, gender (or other roles in society) in two feature films or television dramas you have studied.

Amitabh Bachchan, he is considered as the most prejudiced actor of famous personality of the Indian industry. He is very famous among them.

For example, one of the slum’s young women, Manju is on track to become the first female graduate from Annawadi. Another can be seen in Abdul’s business of recycling and how it is helping improve his own economic conditions. Or through a number of the younger Annawadi kids going to these prop up free or “bridge” schools, despite them not being of the highest quality. While this may not seem to be rather huge events, or some may view them in isolation of each other, it at least demonstrates a slight trend of upward mobility and a subjective increase in quality of life for a number of Annawadi’s civilians. These smaller trends would perhaps distinguish Annawadi from India’s true poor citizens who were born in to poverty and have seen almost or perhaps no opportunity to escape the situation of which they were born in. This can be related back to the idea of development being a widening of peoples capabilities or opportunities, and that Annawadi may not be considered truly poor in comparison inside India due to a number of it’s people finding or having the smallest openings to exploit scenarios where they have been able to improve their life

The school excellence in Dharavi is excellence. There are an estimated 5000 businesses is Dharavi. Some consist of recycling, leather products, jewelry, food, pots, clothing and various accessories. 85% of people in Dharavi have a job. The biggest recycling industry is recycling. The recycling industry is reported to employ approximately 250,000 people, so it is a very big thing there. People who work in the recycling only make about a dollar a day. People who work in the recycling industry are called rag pickers and there have been at least 4 generations working as such. It is estimated that the neighborhoods of this slum contribute about 1 billion dollars to Mumbai’s economy. This community is filled with business and industry. Some of the industries in Dharavi have made some people rich. Those who have become rich stay in Dharavi because they don’t want to leave, it’s their home and they stay humble. The people of this slum are very organized,

Talitha, your discussion board is very interesting. I learn so much about the West Indian culture in your discussion board. I have been in your shoes as well thinking that I know something about a culture and I did not know. The individual was also offended as well and tried to stereotype my culture as trying to getting me back. West Indians has many blacks in their culture. According to the website, West Indies, majority of the population of West Indians are Africans (West Indies, 2017). Many West Indians speak “creole languages, evolved from pidgin variants of European languages, have become the common languages of many of the people” (West Indies, 2017). In West Indians, they also have Puerto Ricans. In Spanish communities such as Purto

Uses of icons, symbols, and illustrations of Native Americans have changed ever since Europeans have made contact with the new world. Between various types of media such as art and eventually theater, film, and other forms of entertainment, depictions of Native Americans in the U.S. have seen an evolution over many centuries. Past the beginning of the 20th century, illustrations of Native Americans have seen an evolution in behavior, becoming more culturally aware and sensitive throughout multiple forms of media, but while some depictions may still harbor offensive and insensitive depictions, there are still some forms of popular culture that have either changed their use of Native American illustrations or have become more aware of their motives.

Boo’s story begins in Annawadi, a trash-strewn slum located by the Mumbai International Airport. This “sumpy plug of slum” had a population of three thousand people

Native American culture is one that is misunderstood and stereotyped in many different ways. After Europeans colonized North America they began to make assumptions and opinions on Native American culture, many of which were misconcenceptions. Since Native American culture was so different then western culture, many Europeans treated it as if it was not a legitimate way of life, instead something that was of the past. With this point of view, many began to build stereotypes for Native American people. These varied from them only being guides for Europeans as they explored North America, to them being sexual beings since Native American culture gave men and woman a more equal distribution of power. Whatever impression the Europeans had, they were unable to widely understand what Native American life was really like and how it was affected by westward expansion. The artist Kent Monkman comments on this falsified reality in his painting The Trappers of Men, where he alludes to many different stereotypes that are associated with Native

Some of the stereotype of The Native Americans in the film were, Pawnee people being savages and Lakota people being the more calm and family people. I understand why the filmmakers showed both sides of the Native Americans, the good and the bad. Which they also did the same with the white people. The Pawnee people acted like savages in the film, they killed with no remorse and took what they wanted from the white people and Lakota people. The most positive Native American character in the film was Kicking Bird.

The government also promises to the poor, better schools and hospitals. Balram’s father died because there was improper medical care in their home town, and the life expectancy in India is only 66.8 years. There are nearly 1,189,172,906 people in India and only 61% of the people living in India are literate. In New Delhi, though, the government does fulfill its promises to the rich. They live unaware and uncaring of the slums surrounding their middle class lives. The government makes promises of better livelihoods to its people that are never fulfilled; causing India’s poor to remain in the slums and the government to have little understanding of the problems poor people face.

Poverty and oppression is a serious condition that is prevalent even in today’s modern society. Women and children are exposed to poverty and subjected to a life of injustice. One of the countries where such problems still occur is in India. Despite the country’s modernization, there lies an undercity where the disparity of wealth is transparent. These social problems are thoroughly described in movies and literature such as Slumdog Millionaire and Behind the Beautiful Forevers. In the book Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Catherine Boo, the author describes slum life for a set of individuals and the hardship that their social conditions confined them to. Another movie that gave insight to slum life in India is Slumdog Millionaire

India is a country in central Asia with a population of over 1.22 billion people making it the second most populous country in the world. Its high population is one of the factors that results in India having such a high poverty rate. In India today over 37% of the population live below the poverty line. The reality of such a statistic means that these people live in conditions unimaginable to people of the western world. In the film Slumdog Millionaire by director Danny Boyle deeper ideas associated with this poverty are developed including destiny, loyalty and how poverty frees us. These deeper ideas are developed through visual techniques

Native American representations in film is particularly important in influencing public opinion regarding depictions and beliefs of what Native people are like. Often associated with popular film in the United States is an Anglo constructed representation of a dated, drunken, and traditionally dressed Native person that seems to perpetuate these stereotypes. Because some shows are so popular in the United States, the effects can be powerful. The influence of these pictures comes from the large viewing audience, the cultural majority of the audience, and a failure to accept modernity of Natives. Still in the twenty-first century, there are several representations like this that imitate stereotypes, impact the majority culture, and negatively impact Native American communities. In this essay, I will analyze a case of this stereotyping of Natives in a modern comedy television show called Family Guy.