So I was watching this cartoon with my nephew the other day and noticed that the characters who have "foreign" ancestral heritage (people of colour), were based on stereotypes of their groups. There was an Asian character who was nerdy, but more importantly, did not speak English well and had a Chinese ascent. There was also a black girl, who had a lot of attitude and spoke with a "ghetto" accent. Now I see these stereotypes all the time in TV shows for adults or young adults, but in cartoons?
Because of shows like this, I think, it is why so many people prejudge. It's because we see how each "race" is "suppose" to behave and look at very young age, and over time these myths about "race" become our realities. Now if this is true, than our realities of society would be false, right?
So what we can do to stop spreading these false realities is to be critical of what we are watching on TV and challenge our children to be critical also. Ask questions; look through different societal lens; which ever method you choose, ALWAYS challenge the media.
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