Stereotypes In The Proud Family

I am a typical brown girl on the outside, but a totally different person on the inside just like an egg. Even though I will be as quiet as an egg if put in boiling water, my inside will be screaming. I am not like some people, I have two different cultures now that I am in America now. Two years ago I was in India, being a girl with less opportunities, but here I can do what I set my heart on because I know I will have a way to reach it. I have changed how I see the world now, my beliefs have changed and my goals are in a bigger level now. Your cultural identity can change when you are exposed to new and different things.

Released in 2001, Disney Channel’s The Proud Family was a Black cartoon frequently watched by children who grew up during its airplay. Not vulgar or satirical, The Proud Family centered around Penny Proud and her family as she grew up through her years. As a child, I innocently watched this show, but picked up on unintended implications based off of the character’s skin color. The main character Penny was a lighter skinned girl, who appeared to possess “more Eurocentric phenotypic characteristics (Steele),” exhibited more intelligence, wealth, and virtue, as opposed to her darker skinned best friend, Dijonay, who was associated with deviance and sassiness, while speaking with a more Ebonic style of talking and possessed a more “ghetto” name. Although the show attempted to provide an accurate representation of a “traditional African American family,” it still regardlessly instilled these stereotypes of the African American community into my mindset, which were not disproved in my mind until later in my life (Steele).

The danger of a single story is that they let the powerful downgrade the weaker because they create stereotypes, they can hurt the people, and no one gets represented from the culture.

Prejudice is the preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. In

The single story is about how a people stereotypes one another based on what they learned through books, media, people, and other sources. For example, Chimamnda announced how she viewed Mexicans as immigrants and them trying to get through the borders, but the moment she stepped foot into Mexico the perspective she got from other sources changed everything. She was ashamed of herself because when she visit the view was completely different because what she saw was happiness, love, and fun. The single story is an image that is created based upon information that was given, but not on your own perspective. In other words, it is the truth to the reality. For example, when people hear of Niagara everyone think of land, poor, Africa, homeless,

With the roadblocks in Callie's adoption it's been a long couple of months, but she was finally getting adopted tomorrow. The whole family couldn't wait for her to officially be a Adams-Foster.

The show Modern Family is a sitcom that portrays three dissimilar, but related families who face problems in their own comedic ways. The show’s narrative mode closely resembles an episodic series, with plots standing on their own, with little need to watch the show from the beginning to understand what is happening. Since its debut in 2009, Modern Family has become an incredibly popular show and its appeal spans generations; furthermore, it is a show which challenged the typical portraits of the American middle-class family, starring Colombian actress Sofia Vergara, who plays the fiery character Gloria, and Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, who plays Lily Tucker-Pritchett. While many of the characters are ethnically diverse, characters like Gloria and Lily are made to portray identities that are neither ethnically blotted out, nor completely isolated from the greater workings of

The idea the authors, Naomi Gerstel and Natalia Sarkisian, are communicating to the audience is that the minority families do not have weaker ties to its extended family relationships compared to the white families. Rather, the ties to kinship depends on racial or ethnic differences.

The nursing profession has many stereotypes, both negative and positive. I decided to choose a stereotype that has been portrayed in our culture and society for some time regarding this profession. When people hear nurse they tend to immediately think of it as a female occupation. This has been portrayed and implanted into societies mind due to the media through films, pictures, TV, and art.

“Modern Family,” a television show created and written by ABC Network is one of the funniest, most relatable and cleaver shows that has ever hit our television screens. “Modern Family” centers on the lives of three families living in modern day Los Angles, California. Jay – aged husband and Gloria Pritchett – sexy Latino wife are the modern day California couple. Gloria has a son named Manny from her previous marriage. Jay’s son, Mitchell, is a very feminine man married to an even more feminine man, Cameron.

The book that I chose was, 'In Our Mother's House' and there were no serious sterotypes. The author made sure to portray the lesbian parents, Marmee and Meema, as normal as any other couple. Both mothers read to their kids, gave them surprises , and were there to comfort the kids. Towards the end Marmee and Meema grew old together to see their grandchildren. Their kids did not follow their path and remained heterosexual; this kills of the sterotype of children who are of homosexual parents will become homsexuals.

Negativity Towards Fathers: Incapable Stereotype Fathers have been degraded in many movies, television shows, and commercials as incapable and incompetent. Stereotypes are socially constructed by society and the media. As humans tend to label people by what we are taught and see through the media. This stereotype arrived from the 1950’s and 1960’s sitcoms that relied on the incapable father to keep the viewers entertained. The sitcoms in that day and age featured a “5 o’clock dad…with a newspaper as a face” (Quindlen 101).

My theme report is exploring safe stereotypes and how it impacts belonging in society. My four texts are Mother’s love your sons by Glenn Colquhoun, Billy elliot directed by Stephen Daldry, Big brother little sister by Witi Ihimaera and Captain Fantastic directed By Matt Ross and Viggo Mortensen.

Each person in the family of four stopped what they were doing and looked at the television. Their hearts stopped beating, their legs were stuck to the ground, and it was like the whole world paused. Any emotions such as anger, sadness, or happiness went away while they stared blankly at the screen. The only thing they could do was reread the words scrolling at the bottom over and over until they were blue in the face. The words said “BREAKING NEWS… THE VOLCANO MOUNT VENUS WILL ERUPT IN APPROXIMATELY ONE HOUR. PLEASE EVACUATE YOUR HOMES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.” No one in the town or anyone in the family was prepared for a situation like this. The only thing the family knew was they could not stand in front of the television thinking this is not

When I was only a little girl, I had been told that true beauty came from within. Yet as I grew up, I noticed that looks mattered. From their attractiveness, race, age, or gender, anyone’s image was always up for scrutiny. Under those circumstances, I grew up thinking that if people were to judge me based on my appearance, that I should judge them the same way. Though, as I became older, I at some point learned that how a person looked wasn’t always in their range of control. A person simply isn’t born with the choice of picking what they look like, nor are they born with the choice of having a genetic disorder or disease. In that case, I believe that nobody should be defined purely based on what they look like.