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2) This is a scene from the show The Office, and the episode is called “Diversity Day”. During this episode Michael, the manager, holds session with his employees to discuss diversity. For this session he decides to have a game where he gives each employee a note card with a different race and tells the employees that they have to try to figure out which ethnic group they are by giving and receiving clues. I chose this episode of The Office because it shows how different ethnic groups are stereotyped to be a certain way.
3) This episode relates to Frank Wu’s article “Yellow”. These relate because Wu mention in his article about how “boys will see me and suddenly strike a karate pose, chop at the air, throw a kick, and utter some sing-song gibberish, before turning around and running away.” (416). Wu talks about how as being an Asian American he is stereotyped as knowing karate. During the episode of The Office, Pam is wearing a note card that says that she is Jewish, and Dwight a co-worker asked her for a loan, because people that are Jewish are stereotyped as being good with money (nbc.com). This show also relates to Wu’s article because during the episode Michael disrespects Kelly, an employee of Indian descent, by talking in an Indian accent posing as a convenience store clerk (nbc.com). Michael thinks that he did nothing wrong by doing this which proves what Wu mentioned about white people have a tendency to disrespect people of different races without realizing what they are doing.
4) I think that it is easy to stereotype people to the ethnic groups that they belong too, even if they do not practice any of those customs. The stereotypes are usually created very easily because members that race act a certain way, and when enough of them act that way all of them will be viewed to do that. It happens with every group of people, for example, black people are stereotyped to be gangsters that love listening to rap music, and Jewish people are stereotyped to be good with money. Stereotypes exist everywhere, and some of them have nothing to do with race, people are stereotyped by the type of work they do, where they live, or where they go to school. I think that no matter what stereotypes will exist because people assume that they know everything, and if they don’t know then they refer to what they do know. I believe that stereotypes exist and work because of the media. Media portrays groups of people to act in certain ways and those stereotypes are shown to the audience. After the audience watches that show or movie they will then think of that group of people in that way because they will not know anything else, and assume that the people in charge of the media did correct research and are telling the audience the truth about that group of people. Ethnic groups have always been portrayed to act in certain ways in the movies, and the ethnic groups have a tendency to always act in those roles no matter what movie or show they are in.
2) This is a scene from the show The Office, and the episode is called “Diversity Day”. During this episode Michael, the manager, holds session with his employees to discuss diversity. For this session he decides to have a game where he gives each employee a note card with a different race and tells the employees that they have to try to figure out which ethnic group they are by giving and receiving clues. I chose this episode of The Office because it shows how different ethnic groups are stereotyped to be a certain way.
3) This episode relates to Frank Wu’s article “Yellow”. These relate because Wu mention in his article about how “boys will see me and suddenly strike a karate pose, chop at the air, throw a kick, and utter some sing-song gibberish, before turning around and running away.” (416). Wu talks about how as being an Asian American he is stereotyped as knowing karate. During the episode of The Office, Pam is wearing a note card that says that she is Jewish, and Dwight a co-worker asked her for a loan, because people that are Jewish are stereotyped as being good with money (nbc.com). This show also relates to Wu’s article because during the episode Michael disrespects Kelly, an employee of Indian descent, by talking in an Indian accent posing as a convenience store clerk (nbc.com). Michael thinks that he did nothing wrong by doing this which proves what Wu mentioned about white people have a tendency to disrespect people of different races without realizing what they are doing.
4) I think that it is easy to stereotype people to the ethnic groups that they belong too, even if they do not practice any of those customs. The stereotypes are usually created very easily because members that race act a certain way, and when enough of them act that way all of them will be viewed to do that. It happens with every group of people, for example, black people are stereotyped to be gangsters that love listening to rap music, and Jewish people are stereotyped to be good with money. Stereotypes exist everywhere, and some of them have nothing to do with race, people are stereotyped by the type of work they do, where they live, or where they go to school. I think that no matter what stereotypes will exist because people assume that they know everything, and if they don’t know then they refer to what they do know. I believe that stereotypes exist and work because of the media. Media portrays groups of people to act in certain ways and those stereotypes are shown to the audience. After the audience watches that show or movie they will then think of that group of people in that way because they will not know anything else, and assume that the people in charge of the media did correct research and are telling the audience the truth about that group of people. Ethnic groups have always been portrayed to act in certain ways in the movies, and the ethnic groups have a tendency to always act in those roles no matter what movie or show they are in.
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