Caucasian Chicks, By Keenen Ivory Wayans

Each character in the movie Crash all at some point acted on assumptions of another race that prevent them from seeing that their words or actions caused pain. Because of this, we begin to see how racial stereotypes and prejudice events play out affecting the characters lives. One of the first scenes we see in the movie is when two black men, Anthony and Peter are walking out of a restaurant and Anthony starts going on a rampage about how badly they were serviced. He believes it was because they were black and that’s why the waitress did not come to their table and asked if they wanted coffee, like she’d done for the other white customers. While all of this was happening, a white couple comes walking in front them. When the white women saw

The film Ethnic Notions examines the various caricatures of African Americans in popular culture and the consequences of these representations from the 1800s to the 1980s. The film showed how America went through a face of injustice for a period of time. The internet defines stereotype as qualities assigned to groups of people related to their race, nationality and sexual orientation, to name a few. (Kemick) Throughout American history, African Americans have been victims of stereotypes in many ways. White majority use violence caricatures, stereotypes, dominance, subordination and the media as ways to overpower African Americans.

Through the use of images, films, and other media outlets harmful stereotypes are often times created. One of the many challenges that American cinema endures is the inability to correctly portray characters of color. Film directors have formed a habit of creating and defining characters in a way that the audiences can easily identify with, thus leading to the reproduction of racial stereotyping. Black characters have generally been stigmatized throughout the course of history as aggressive, inferior, and irrational beings. These common stereotypes are perpetuated through the use of redundant film clichés that have a significant impact on society’s popular image of blacks. Within the article In Living Color, Michael Omi claims that despite progressive changes in America pertaining to race, popular culture is still responsible for damaging racial stereotypes and racism. Whereas, within Matt Zoller Seitz article, The Offensive Movie Cliché That Won’t Die, he discusses film clichés such as “Magical Negro” that uses an African American character for the sole purpose of acting as a mentor for their oblivious white counterpart. However, Get Out, a horror satire on the micro-aggressive black experience, directed by Jordan Peele, debunks these racial stereotypes centered around black men. The film subverts the use of racial stereotypes, as it rejects America’s depiction of common black men behavior pertaining to their criminalized lifestyle, masculinity, and aggression in

In recent years, talking animals have been an entertainment for children and parents to enjoy, but this pleasure has shown some concern of what these animals portray in films. American films and television displays stereotypical representation of minorities on screen, but not only in reality on screen, but as well as animation. Therefore, one of the stereotypical representations is Chicanos and their connection with Chihuahuas.

There are many times when people say that everyone has some sort of prejudice towards an ethnic group. A perfect example is that of the portrayal of races through stereotypes in American films that are being made and sold to the public. Since the beginning of the silent black and white movies there have been stereotypes that misrepresent ethnic groups, such as the negative portrayal of African-Americans in minstrel shows. Although these extreme negative racist portrayals have ended, the film industry still insists on adding stereotypes that negatively portrays ethnic minorities, such as Asian-Americans, Hispanics-Americans, and African-Americans.

Stereotypes have long been part of film-and-television history. Hollywood writers and directors should have a social responsibility to avoid stereotyping ethnic characters because it can help audience aware of the true nature of ethnic groups, create more opportunity for foreign actors, and increase the profits for Hollywood.

Thanks to actors like Chloë Grace Moretz, Shailene Woodley, & Ansel Elgort, the young adult teen genre is alive and well on the big screen. However, this is not a cinematic category that’s without its criticisms - as films of this nature tend to cater heavily to a young female demographic.

Stereotypes, such as the dumb White girl, Hispanic housekeeper, and an angry Black girl has caused lots of people to think all White, Hispanic, and Black women are like this. The continued use of a White girl as a dumb person is inaccurate since there are plenty of smart/intelligent young White females. The use of Hispanic women is also very inaccurate because there are housekeepers in all races and ethnicities. And against what is seen on the television, the portray of Black women is inaccurate, all Black women are not loud and ghetto. In fact, many are quite proper and respectful. These television shows and films need to stop stereotyping and show more diversity that is consistent with today’s world in

“Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.” -Walt Disney Since immemorial times Disney has been a base in the development of children's mindset and attitudes, the movies that this company produce are imminent to children since Walt Disney released the first movie. In the other side, there are certain things that these movies have that can be considered inappropriate or offensive for some people, some unspoken messages.

Life in Hollywood, for some female actresses, may not be as glamourous as it seems the viewers. With all the talk about the lack of diversity in Hollywood, actresses should be seeing changes happen, right? Sadly, this is incorrect. Many actresses have spoken out on the disparity; such as Jennifer Lawrence, Kerry Washington, Charlize Theron, and many more actresses. Actresses of older ages have to “fight” with their male counterpart and the new, younger face, and it is the same for younger actresses who have to compete wit actresses with more experience. Older actresses are struggling to stay known, while younger actresses are trying to become known. Trying to maintain their careers, female actresses have to deal with sexism, ageism, unequal pay, and misrepresentation., while working in Hollywood.

“The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story” ( LaVigne, Kelly). Our society groups people the same way and don’t consider their differences. For example individuals see a girl that’s skinny and automatically assume she’s anorexic or see a tall person and assume they’re good at basketball. Stereotypes effect the way people see the world whether they’re true or untrue. Stereotypes give a fixed mindset on things because humans feel it isn’t always necessary to be open minded and learn the information needed before judging.

1. Yes I would of said, that we only use 10 percent of our brain based off popular culture, and popular movies of the 21 century that uses typical movie scenarios, where the main character fully unlocks their brain and become unstoppable beings. This can be seen in movies like "Lucy" and "limitless".

I thought they were just normal people and now I still think they are normal people. I didn't have nothing against Muslims now or later the movie I still don't have nothin on Muslims. The first perception I had was that there are some bad Muslim, but not all Muslim are the same. They treat Muslim like they were all plan for 9/11 ,but not all of them were plan on the attack. After viewing the episode, I noticed at there is people that still don't like Muslims, at this time. Another belief I had about Muslim was there region, let them do the region in peace. There is alway that person that will get mad, because they are doing there beliefs. Like in the movie showed there send death notes to person calling on the call that is church time for

Stereotypical Roles of Women in Films Films reflect and reinforce the dominant ideology of how life should be, and this applies to how women are shown in films. Although half of the population is female, they are underrepresented in films. Most leads are men. Along with this issue of underrepresentation is how the women are shown, cast stereotypically in traditional roles. Some of the most common stereotypes women play are materialistic, desperate, catty, unintelligent, weak, broken, and so forth.

When watching films whether it be action, comedy or love, one can easily recognise that most actors/actresses are noticeably white. However, when a POC is cast as a character in a film, it’s usually a stereotypical role. Even though stereotypes are unavoidable in film. Asian stereotypes are usually perceived as negative ones ever used in Hollywood. One exclusively used stereotype is the perpetual foreigner. An Asian face or accent is used to symbolise contradict everything to Western culture. No distinctions are made between American Asians and Asians who have actually came from the country itself. The media suggests that all Asians (including US citizens) cannot be from the West.