"Stereotypes dehumanize people and turn them into objects to be manipulated," said Tracy Lai in Asian American Women: Not For Sale. It has been a struggle for women to gain their rights, but imagine being a minority women trying to win society over. This semester we have gathered information about critical thinking and gender issues and how they affect our society. For my paper, I decided to do a research on assumptions and stereotyping of ethnicity. Assumption as defined in the March 19, 2001 notes, is something we take for granted, something assumed but not proven, take it to be true in order to move on with conversation, and it sometimes bias us. Stereotyping is part of society, we are constantly assuming things whether on ethnic background, gender, and age; we want to categorize others. Since the world is not considered as one type of human race, but as a multicultural one, people still have not recognize the different kinds of ethnic backgrounds out there. People assume that the "norm" race is part of the majority and anyone other than this race is an outsider. Does our ethnic background affect the way we live in life, put us where we stand?.
Stereotypes of minorities in the media are very common nowadays. Television creates and sustains the majority's accepted social stereotypes of minority groups. Depending on the group's place in American society, television's presentation will either be positive or negative. If one is not a member of the television-stereotyped group, it is impossible to feel the impact of such content has on those being criticized. To get a sense of the impact of television stereotyping, they have to imagine being demeaned on television to a nation of viewers in which they are characterized as a minority who is ridiculed by everyone other than the minority race. .
Blacks star in excessively more television comedies than they are in dramas. When blacks are invited into the living rooms of America, it is obviously easier for viewers to laugh at them than to see them in a serious light.