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For more than nine decades, the name Walt Disney has been preeminent in the field of family entertainment. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to today 's global corporation, Disney continues to proudly provide quality entertainment for every member of the family, across America and around the world. The company is diversified, focusing on its mass media headquartered in Burbank, California (Iger, 2012). In terms of revenue, it is the largest media conglomerate in the world (Silkos, 2009). Founded on October 16, 1923, by the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in

There was another example with the Mexican locksmith that had stereotyping involved. For example, the Persian store owner was frightened that the Mexican was trying to rip him off, however just like Bullock's assumption, he was incorrect. The locksmith was actually trying to tell him some important information, but he did not pay attention. For not listening, his store was broken into and he lost a large amount of money. They could not get past his race to actually get to know him and to realize that he was right. It is as if they do not recognize the other cultures going on around them.

Then there are the in-between moments where the audience sees the characters in everyday life at their place of employment. The Office is also known to have a boss that comes off politically incorrect at times. Chad Deity emphasizes that to take it a step further. I think this is a necessary component of the play because it helps the audience to get the full effect of the show. Many people think that racism no longer exists or that it does, but they are not guilty of racism. However, studies have shown that implicit racism has become increasingly more prevalent in society, (see Appendix 2). By making the reactions to the incorrect stereotypes more exaggerated, Diaz is shining a light on the implicit racism of society.

Similarly to real life, people are prejudice and racist towards people behind their backs too. The movie displays a good example of this. As I previously mentioned, the Tuohy family had a large amount of money, they even owned multiple chains of Taco Bell. Due to their money, Leigh Anne was friends with women who were wealthy as well. One day, Leigh Anne and her friends were eating at an expensive restaurant and while they were waiting on their food, they began a conversation about Michael. One of the women said “Hey, does Michael get the

When viewing this episode, many obvious controversial issues were noticeable. The issues involving race and gender were a clear showing of how many people in the world are ignorant to the issues involving race and gender in the world. Additionally, during the episode, an instructor is called into the office to educate the workers about diversity, and how certain comments are not acceptable in a workplace and public areas. Throughout the exercise, Michael – the manager – disagrees with most of what the instructor says, and decides to start his own diversity day training exercises. Michael decides to write a bunch of different races on notecards, and have the workers stick them to their foreheads at random. They then had to walk around and treat each other like they would any other person who is of that race. By using racial stereotypes to try and figure out their race, this exercise clearly promotes the use of racial stereotypes. For example, In the scene where Dwight and Pam try to guess their own races on their notecards, Pam says to Dwight (who is “Asian”), “Based off stereotypes which are completely untrue, you might not be a very good driver.” After Pam says this, Dwight responds with, “Oh God, am I a woman?” This scene displays complete ignorance

In the early scenes of the film, we are introduced to two black individuals, Anthony and Peter, who get into an argument about the stereotyping of the black community. Anthony displays concepts of reflected appraisal as he places the assumption that all white individuals are racist toward other black individuals. Reflected appraisal, in the communication process, is essentially an individual’s perception of how others view or evaluate them. Anthony supports this claim by expressing how the waitress in the diner they just left did not refill his coffee but refilled the coffee of other white customers. His friend Peter points out that his coffee was not finished and the diner was packed, indicating that there were other logical reasons besides Anthony’s claims. However, Anthony is insistent

Cross’ book Shades of black: diversity in African-American identity (1991) depicts a perceived metamorphous of black identity through five stages of development—his ideologies are now termed as the Nigrescence theory. In simple terms, this philosophy refers to the process of becoming Black. It also demonstrates daily struggles that the black community may have in developing a healthy personal identity. Over the years, many authors attempt to define what the word black means. Eventually, many came to begin using the politically acceptable term widely applied today to regard black people; that word is known as Negroes. As different historical events occurred, one being the black power revolution on the 1970’s the experience called for a fresh definition of the term negro. Blacks or Africans in America began to be more conscious of their identity and more aware of the differences separating them. This is the experience that Cross (1971) illustrates and is primarily referenced in his five-stage progress including: pre-encounter, encounter, immersion/emersion, internalization, and internalization-commitment. This book highlights some very vital topics relating to mental health, which has been carefully disregarded by other researchers. Nonetheless, it has strong affiliations to the black experience and can positively explain a more normal psychological behavior through logical and very thought provoking

These days it seems like you can’t escape the all-seeing eye of PC culture. Every poorly worded joke or inconsiderate prank about race can lead to a person’s whole life being destroyed by woke twitter. Yet, a small made for TV movie known as Windy City Heat has managed to walk on by, unscathed by the wrath of PC culture. By stereotyping almost every minority group, Windy City Heat is arguably one of the most offensive films ever made, yet I found it amusing, hilarious, and a little enlightening. Ultimately, I believe that Windy City Heat uses extremes of stereotypes to vitiate the negative aspects of these stereotypes, and in doing so, acts as a morally acceptable pranks that aims to teach members of the film and the audience to be more welcoming.

It becomes undeniably clear that he was socially inept as a child, resulting in his inadequate interpersonal skills (Devito 160). He had no friends, lived in the same small town his entire life, and only interacted with his mother, who was always preoccupied with a new relationship. Because of this his world was molded by television and movies, which rely heavily on stock characters that reinforce stereotypes. He was doomed from the start. Leading to his first downfall, racism. The word racism has such a malicious connotation (rightfully so) (Devito 98), and none of the remarks made by Michael are meant malevolently. He does nonetheless, use racist language (Devito 107). It should be pointed out however, that it is never used as a power move, contrary to its definition. Michael doesn’t fault his employees for their race, Rather, he simply makes them aware, in variably unpleasant and not so indirect ways, of their implied

In the show, “The Office” we can apply an economic lens. We can apply the economic lens through the workers and how they see and act towards one another. Michael Scott is the dictator of this show, he tells everyone what to do and when to do it. When the warehouse people were finishing up training people on safety in the workplace,Michael got offended when Darrell told him it was like playing nerf in the workplace, that basically it’s a joke and it tested Michaels authority at work. He then changed his attitude to make everyone think that it’s the best job ever. He tried to convince all the workers while acting depressed and tried to kill himself by jumping off the roof of the building and calling the workers “blue collared workers” while everyone was watching, even though he wasn’t actually going to jump off the building. He tried to explain through his actions that the workplace is a much more dangerous environment than they make think. This was made out to be really funny but could happen in real life to some companies.

A writer named Jacqueline Woodson once said that; “Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” This means that diversity is all about differences, because no two people are exactly the same. This includes, races, ethnicities, gender, religions, beliefs, favorites, opinions, style, learning style and anything else that makes someone who they are as a person. This definition of diversity coincides almost identically with inclusive ideas in regards to disabilities. The question I have, however, is whether or not Inclusive Theories can be used when there are no children with disabilities present in the classroom. In an attempt to come up with an answer I interviewed a second grade teacher, Ms. Smith* at a Quaker school.

The human resources department failed in preventing this situation from getting out of hand as an office – environment had already been created where Shawn Brooks could not trust his supervisors. Shawn Brooks was an account executive at Infinity Broadcasting Corporation and was the only African – American among 25 other account executives. How does a big corporation like Infinity allow a hiring policy like that leaving an uncomfortable working environment for employees like Brooks? Collecting all the copies of the book with racist passages was the right course of action by human resources. They acted quickly going back on a book that supposedly didn't reflect the views of the company. However, the company’s actions more so protected them opposed

Diversity in the workplace is a subject that has gained increased attention in the workplace over the past few years. After all, the impact of affirmative action and equal employment opportunity programs on the nation's work force is undeniable. Women and minorities were the first to dramatically alter the face of the economic mainstream, while gays, persons with disabilities and senior citizens followed not far behind. The result is a diverse American labor force representing a microcosm of our society - yet one that continues to struggle with its identity. Diversity as a social condition is not new to America. We were founded as a nation of Diversity. “America has always been a merger of cultures and, as such, has undergone periods of

With all of the advances in modern society and human behavior, racism is still a crisis that many people have to cope with. It can occur at any place or at any time, including in the workplace. Racial discrimination arises when someone is treated differently based on their actual or perceived race. Many people believe that if one were to be in the vicinity of a respected workplace that they would be respected by all co-workers and employers; this is in no way true. A big amount of minority employees, mainly African-Americans, are affected by racial discrimination in the workplace whether it’s from their employers or their fellow co-workers, and it is not at all acceptable. Racial discrimination is a situation that has always been a problem, so we must show an effort to try to eliminate it from our society.

I feel as if this scene would have been more historically accurate 20 years ago, but there are racially insensitive people all over, some just hide their insensitiveness better than others. Another scene was where in Michael’s first football game, the referees only threw flags on plays that he made, when there was no reason for a flag to be thrown. This I feel is very accurate historically, football and the South are hand in hand, and anything out of the ordinary or anything that threatens a team will not go overlooked by anyone. The referees most likely felt that Michael had an advantage over the other players just because he was African American, not knowing that a few weeks prior Michael couldn’t even tackle another player, and still had to think that the person he was to tackle was a threat to his family.