Seyed Hadi Seyed Sadjadi - StereoType

Name: seyed hadi seyed sajadi
Student ID: 1102702761 
Email: shssadjadi@gmail.com


 Stereo Type. the most important reason of happening of stereo type is the mind.
the mind inflicted by something else that we assume that thing has power to affect on our mind which is up to our ways of thinking that we believe someone or something somehow effect on our mind and impress it`s opinion/idea to us.
the problem of accruing stereo type is the mind of  affected mind whose is exaggerated but it could be true, because I personally believe when there is an stuff, others may talk and describe about that.
why the stereo types happens is related to our behavior. the stereo type of Arab guys are having several wives as the lecturer mentioned during the class. why she said that? absolutely I guess, she observe something about this subject matter and confront her knowledge and observations in contrary to gather a general idea and stereo type for Arab guys.
most of the people talks about what they saw and heard and detail their information and also make a mixture of their knowledge and exaggerate to provide a type to call something and usually ridiculously, feel they are superior than the other and hide their weakness.

Fatemeh Jamshidian Tehrani - Stereotypes

Fatemeh Jamshidian Tehrani

ID:1102703422

fatemeh.jt@gmail.com

Stereotypes:

Stereotypes can be either positive or negative, but they are all unfair and misleading. In general, stereotypes reduce individuals to a rigid, inflexible image; they do not account for the fact that human beings are complex and multidimensional, with unique attributes. Stereotypes suggest that people or groups of people are the same, when, in fact, they are quite different. Stereotypes about human beings tend to dehumanize people, placing all members of a group into one, simple category.

Although generalizations, the basis for stereotyping, represent a natural part of the learning process, when they are directed at human beings, they can be dangerous and harmful. When we stereotype people, we prejudge them; we assume that all people in a group have the same traits. This form of blind categorization leads to false assumptions about people and causes misunderstandings, hostility, abusive behaviours, conflicts, discrimination, and prejudice. For example, if we are walking through a park late at night and encounter three senior citizens wearing fur coats and walking with canes, we may not feel as threatened as if we were met by three high school-aged boys wearing leather jackets. Why is this so? We have made a generalization in each case. These generalizations have their roots in experiences we have had ourselves, read about in books and magazines, seen in movies or television, or have had related to us by friends and family. By stereotyping, we assume that a person or group has certain characteristics. Quite often, we have stereotypes about persons who are members of groups with which we have not had firsthand contact or fear.

Mostafa Mamoudi - Media Stereotypes

Mostafa Mamoudi

1081107434

amooshelby@gmail.com

One of the biggest issues that comes to mind after watching the film about the presentation of Arabs in culture as evil in “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People” is the way the classification by the film’s narrator Dr. Shaheen of Arabs in Hollywood films as “subhuman” and “stock villains” is being played out in real-life in politics and foreign as well as home politics. Far from being senseless comic relief figures as sometimes represented in Hollywood films, the damaging images of the Arab as fearless terrorists and villains willing to take their own lives and the lives of others is actually being played off of by America’s leaders as they make certain to use words in speeches like “the axis of evil.” The images represented in films depicting Arabs or Middle Easterners, even for those made for young children such as Aladdin which, as the narrator of the film “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People”, discusses utilizes every possible stereotype of Arabs are indoctrinating, however unwittingly, even young Western children to the negative images of Arabs as one-dimensional caricatures who are either completely violent, evil, or bumbling and backwards.  

This notion of the negative stereotypes of Arabs as revealed in the film “Reel Bad Arabs” is even further contributing to the problem in Western society and the human condition more generally to make assumptions, even if it is because of a lack of thought to the impacts of what is being seen on the silver screen, because it makes us open to believing great unjust things about an entire group or culture. The only way to stop this cycle of negative stereotyping that is allowing those in power to play off of these images of Arabs to create more fear is to raise awareness about these representations and eventually, with enough dissent, producers and other creative persons behind Hollywood films will see that the stereotypes they are presenting are completely wrong and worse, quite harmful and limiting.

Minoo Mafi - My personal experiences

MINOO MAFI 

1081107689

My personal experiences and research about media stereotypes

Nowadays Media has been became much more effective over population and, obviously it can be recognized the role of them to discuss or doing any action of strong country such as The USA, Europe, around the world. Although it has not just been limited to above said country and is done in any other country that has a perfect equipment to make programs to effect its population very well. I would like to consider some Stereotypes which has been made during at war in Iran and how were been success to reach a targets indeed.

There are many faces of using media to convince common to keep on war with Iraq and two faces are far cry from others. I would like to look at to them in fact.

One important point to consider was the main problem between Fars and Arab that media could have made many movies to exaggerate of it. Making some serials and movies such as SARBEDARAN, SAFEER, and so on could change attitude of people against of Arab race. It came back of historic clash between Iranian and Arabian that still is used as key to have sympathy with Iranian who was abused too many years ago. It would have been successful to provoke common to took part at war particularly the teenagers who were sensitive obviously. While it was being watched how many Iranian was been killed those days, surly young boys were believed going war to get revenged is a must. However the of either TV or newspaper was been parallel and they could cover each other.

Other important point is passing way of freedom GHODS across the KARBALA. It is a fact that Iranian loves IMAM Hussein who was killed several decades ago victimized. Therefore Iranian are passion about him so they have a great ceremony for him some days annually .During these days TV, newspaper just focus to this historic event and that time named SADDAM as YAZID who Hussein was killed by him. This imagination was made excellent mutative to be attracted young man.

In conclusion I have believed that we should incline our knowledge to be protected against stereotype affection. So nowadays media looking for new avenues to be fascinated for population and under this shadow can be attractive and more to be influence on common. Media is used as a gun by government indeed.

Aldossary Naief - Media and gender Stereotyping (masculinity)

Aldossary Naief Nassar M
1092700954
flaminski@gmail.com

Gender Stereotype: Men In The Media

Boys and young men learn early on that bieng a so-called "Real man"

means you have to take on this tough guy, in other words you have

to show the world only a certain parts of yourself that the dominant

culture has defined it as manly, we all can find out what those qualities

are by just listen to young men themselves "Real man is physical,

strong, independent, helpful, powerful, in-control, respected"

but in justice, most young men know what our culture expects about

so-called a real man, they also know very well what you get called

if you don't measure up. To be real man is to be tough, strong,

independent, and respected, meaning is to fit all that into a

narrow box that defines manhood, the terms that are the opposite

of that is Wuss, whimp, fag, and sissy are insults that are used

to keep boys boxed in, so if it's a boy it's pretty clear there's

a lot of pressure on them to conform, to put the act, to be just

one of the guys.

So the next question is, where did the boys and young men learn this?

Obviously they learn it in many diffrent places but one of the

most important places they learn it is the powerful and pervasive

media system, which provides a steady stream of images that define

manhood as connected with dominance, power and control, this is true

across all racial and ethnic groups, but it's even more pronounced

for men of colour, because there's a diversity of images of them

to begin with in media culture, for example, latino men are almost,

always present either as boxers, criminals or a tough guy in a bar,

and an asian men disproportionately portrayed as martial artists were

violent criminals. and as we've seen in the video, all the arab

men present as terrorists or as rich and stupid to know the value

of money.

With transcending race, what the media do is to construct violent

masculinity as a cultural norm, in other words, violence in the

deviation as it is an accepted part of masculinity, the media should start

examining this system and offer the alternatives.

Mohsen Ghafari - A stereotype makes you feel comfortable

A stereotype makes you feel comfortable

Name: Mohsen Ghafari
student ID: 1091108885
Email: mohsen.ghafari.edu@gmail.com

01- When does stereotype come from?
02- It starts from me then from them!
03- Every country’s stereotypes
04- Hollywood close your eyes when you’re blind

When does stereotype come from?

The man always is ready to be innocent and throw his faults to others. This is our nature. You want to change yourself and you always looking for someone to make him guilty. And this has been continuing until now since man’s birth. This behavior has been changing its face to rumors and jokes after a long time. You like to make fun of your friend and he’s from another city or country and you just hear this and haven’t seen by yourself before. And this is our usual life for a long time too. We can’t see our problem and always see others. We said African, Arab, American, and Indian. And never say us.

It starts from me then from them!

Even we label our own people and paste on every one of our friend, special name and wrong behavior. Like some stingy, some lazy and so on. Sometimes we haven't seen who those are and how they live and we just hear something from our near friends and people that they are like that. And it is exactly the same from them too. Sometimes, we always do something wrong and don’t know it is wrong and we except everyone to accept our behavior or we think they know that this is right one and we don’t have to change it and we continue our wrong history, behavior and culture! And for a long time, it will our something life to live. So, someone uses this and makes rumor and fun of us and then we complain why they say this or that!

Every country’s story!

It starts from the family, friends, city, and finally our country. When there were lots of wrong behavior and misunderstandings from us from our old grandparents and people in the past and we still follow them blindly and it is still wrong and we expect from others to understand and accept it. So it’s not and will makes us fool and we want to stay fool even we know we have to change it but under our culture with respecting it. The countries from third world are all like that and when it comes to change something they lose themselves and go in a wrong path. And when I don’t have any respect among my friends and people, how can I expect my country and people from other countries to respect me and not to make stereotype and fun of my own culture and history.

Hollywood close your eyes when you’re blind

Everyone loves Hollywood, like fake stories, fake happy family and fake unknown history. American who are new and don’t have any history which is limited to some new technology, want to make other without any history like them, and blinded follower people like us go into their deep whole of lies and fake history. And we think America and especially the dreamland of Hollywood is our future. As I said in my last article, this goes back to power of control and socialized media.

You can’t say you don’t like America, can you?

You can’t say you don’t like Hollywood, can you? 

But it’s funny 

Can you say I don’t like my country, the unconscious answer is YES!