"Unlearning the Myths that blind us"
Linda Christensen
Linda Christensen
Christensen believes that teachers need to teach students to understand what are going on in movies, television, and music with the stereotypes of people today and the racism that is going on in the world. Teachers need to teach students that everyone should be equal.
1."We are not only taught certain styles of violence, the latest fashions, and sex roles by TV, movies, magazines, and comic strips; we are also taught how to succeed, how to love, how to buy, how to conquer, how to forget the past and suppress the future. We are taught, more than anything else, how not to rebel."
I agree with this quote because children today see how they are suppose to act by what they see on television, or listen in lyrics from their favorite artists on certain ways of how to make love or how guys should buy girls everything. "Baby you can have whatever you like I said you can have whatever you like." This is from T.I's new song. Whatever you like.
2. “Students have also said that what they now see in cartoons, they also see in advertising, on prime-time TV, on the news, in school. Turning off the cartoons doesn't stop the sexism and racism. They can't escape, and now that they've started analyzing cartoons, they can't stop analyzing the rest of the world. And sometimes they want to stop. Once a student asked me, "Don't you ever get tired of analyzing everything!"
When I was in high school for a school project for health class we had to analyze TV shows that we watched all the time. And I never realized that what I was watching was very sexists and degrading to women. Some parts of the shower I remember were talking about women how they should stay in the kitchen and get the house ready for the husband to come home from work so he could eat and the wife could serve him. Woman's roles from society were just to stay home, clean, cook, and take care of the children. Stereotypes of women have changed because now women are in the working world showing they could do man's job.
3."When we read children's books, we aren't just reading cute little stories, we are discovering the tools with which a young society is manipulated."
Children books are mostly focused on the pictures inside of them. Children when they are younger see these pictures and dream to be as beautiful as Cinderella. Children see these pictures and are so fascinated by them and see these characters as doing nothing and getting what they want. Once little kids see these they go right to their parents and tell them they want this and want that.
Conclusion:
I was very interested in this article because I never realized how manipulating media can be and what it can do to us as a society. Music is the most powerful way to manipulate someone to do something or to follow a certain crowd. Lyrics and music videos in my perspective can do a lot to a a young child's mind just by the words coming out from their favorite artists or even from the music videos and all the actions going on in it. Times have changed from 10 years ago to today. There are more and more people seeing African Americans in different ways, 10-15 years ago there were more gang violence and Africans are realizing that they don't have to do that, that they can go to college and succeed. When people say where are you from to an African and they say they are from Compton, the stereotype is that he is in a gang because of the area he is from. People need to understand that not everyone from certain are bad people.
1."We are not only taught certain styles of violence, the latest fashions, and sex roles by TV, movies, magazines, and comic strips; we are also taught how to succeed, how to love, how to buy, how to conquer, how to forget the past and suppress the future. We are taught, more than anything else, how not to rebel."
I agree with this quote because children today see how they are suppose to act by what they see on television, or listen in lyrics from their favorite artists on certain ways of how to make love or how guys should buy girls everything. "Baby you can have whatever you like I said you can have whatever you like." This is from T.I's new song. Whatever you like.
2. “Students have also said that what they now see in cartoons, they also see in advertising, on prime-time TV, on the news, in school. Turning off the cartoons doesn't stop the sexism and racism. They can't escape, and now that they've started analyzing cartoons, they can't stop analyzing the rest of the world. And sometimes they want to stop. Once a student asked me, "Don't you ever get tired of analyzing everything!"
When I was in high school for a school project for health class we had to analyze TV shows that we watched all the time. And I never realized that what I was watching was very sexists and degrading to women. Some parts of the shower I remember were talking about women how they should stay in the kitchen and get the house ready for the husband to come home from work so he could eat and the wife could serve him. Woman's roles from society were just to stay home, clean, cook, and take care of the children. Stereotypes of women have changed because now women are in the working world showing they could do man's job.
3."When we read children's books, we aren't just reading cute little stories, we are discovering the tools with which a young society is manipulated."
Children books are mostly focused on the pictures inside of them. Children when they are younger see these pictures and dream to be as beautiful as Cinderella. Children see these pictures and are so fascinated by them and see these characters as doing nothing and getting what they want. Once little kids see these they go right to their parents and tell them they want this and want that.
Conclusion:
I was very interested in this article because I never realized how manipulating media can be and what it can do to us as a society. Music is the most powerful way to manipulate someone to do something or to follow a certain crowd. Lyrics and music videos in my perspective can do a lot to a a young child's mind just by the words coming out from their favorite artists or even from the music videos and all the actions going on in it. Times have changed from 10 years ago to today. There are more and more people seeing African Americans in different ways, 10-15 years ago there were more gang violence and Africans are realizing that they don't have to do that, that they can go to college and succeed. When people say where are you from to an African and they say they are from Compton, the stereotype is that he is in a gang because of the area he is from. People need to understand that not everyone from certain are bad people.
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