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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Ethnic stereotype (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An ethnic stereotype may be either an overly-simplified representation of the typical characteristics of members of an ethnic group or a falsehood that has been repeated so many times that is accepted by many people as generally true.
		Ethnic stereotypes are often described as either positive or negative.
		As for the Asians, their positive intellectual stereotype is often associated with the socially awkward nerd image, a negative stereotype in Western society.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Ethnic_stereotype (403 words)

	Ethnic stereotype - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An ethnic stereotype is a generalized representation of an ethnic group, composed of what are thought to be typical characteristics of members of the group.
		The use of ethnic stereotypes is usually demeaning even when the characteristics might be considered positive because it tends to discount the importance and uniqueness of the individual.
		Many modern ethnic stereotypes can be described as accurate representations of social norms within a given ethnicity and may reflect what a large portion of the living population is, in fact, doing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Racial_stereotype (240 words)

	Ethnic stereotypes in popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethnic stereotypes in popular culture, involve a stereotypical representation of the typical characteristics of a members of an ethnic group in music, literature, print media, film and the performing arts that is often false or over-simplified.
		Ethnic stereotypes have shown to be the subject of much discussion as of recent.
		Note: Although Juanita Moore plays a stereotypical character in the 1959 version of Imitation of Life, it is largely a satire of the 1934 version melodrama, and the use of the stereotype is in part ironic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethnic_stereotypes_in_popular_culture (877 words)

	Ethnicity
		We all are born into a human culture, and it is the culture that shapes our self-awareness and understanding of other individuals.
		In theory, however, the anthropology and sociology fields advocate a removal of the unique cultural lens of researchers studying culture and adherence to the academic tenet of cultural relativism.
		Ethnic lines still exist, and co-exist, and cultures of the world often find that their central concern, that of maintaining an identity despite rapid transculturation, or a merging between cultures, is still possible.
	www.jahsonic.com /Ethnicity.html (1396 words)

	STEREOTYPES
		Stereotypes are "mental cookie cutters"--they force a simple pattern upon a complex mass and assign a limited number of characteristics to all members of a group.
		Popular stereotypes are images which are shared by those who hold a common cultural mindset--they are the way a culture, or significant sub-group within that culture, defines and labels a specific group of people.
		In other words, stereotypes encourage people to internalize a cultural image, as their goal--a task which may be convenient for the culture (and especially for the power structure status quo) but this proves to be both impossible and damaging to the individuals being asked to mold themselves in such a narrow manner.
	www.serve.com /shea/stereodf.htm (2451 words)

	dCult.com - dedicated to the exploration of cultural policy
		Ethnic Stereotype: An ethnic stereotype may be either an overly-simplified representation of the typical characteristics...
		Cultural Appropriation: Cultural appropriation is the adoption of elements of cultural expression of one societal group...
		Note: Although Juanita Moore plays a stereotypical character in Imitation of Life (1959), the film is largely a satire of the 1934 melodrama and the use of the stereotype is in part ironic.
	www.dcult.com /interculturalism/stereotype.html (917 words)

	New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is also the cultural center of the city, and is home to Madison Square Garden, home to the New York Rangers and New York Knicks.
		Writer Tom Wolfe said of New York that "Culture just seems to be in the air, like part of the weather." Many major American cultural movements began in the city.
		Artists are drawn to the city by opportunity, as well; there are 2,000 arts and cultural non-profits and 500 art galleries of all sizes, and the city government funds the arts with a larger annual budget than the National Endowment for the Arts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_York_City (6226 words)

	Faculty Teaching Excellence Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stereotypes are an ingrained feature of American society and an integral part of our socialization process, transmitting a patchwork of traditionally inaccurate images and clichés from one generation to another.
		Stereotypes are a function of social relations between groups or political relations between nations, not extensive personal experience or knowledge.
		Since stereotypes permeate popular culture, an effective way to engage students is to have them collect examples from a medium of their choice.
	www.colorado.edu /ftep/diversity/div06.html (1324 words)

	"Stereotypes and Generalities"
		Stereotyping is often distasteful, and frequently serves to reveal ignorance.
		The word "stereotype" originated in the 1700s to describe a piece of equipment that was used in the printing process to duplicate copy.
		What is more, when a profession seeks to change its popular stereotype, it often finds that it changes for the worse and can end up undermining the original value of a profession.
	www.uakron.edu /president/co_12_13_03PM.php (1390 words)

	Sociology of Popular Culture
		The Sociology of Popular Culture is a serious exploration of the development and social significance of various non-elite cultural forms in the U.S., such as rock music, television entertainment, and paperback novels.
		Topics will include: the development of the distinction between "highbrow" and "lowbrow" culture in the closing decades of the 19th century, the role of popular cultural forms in ethnic and other subcultures, the role of gender differences in popular culture, and recent theories and debates about the relation of culture and society.
		The readings for this course share a few basic premises: that popular culture is socially and politically important in contemporary societies, that traditional divisions of popular culture into gradations of high and low are inadequate, and that popular culture has to be understood in its social context.
	www.uvm.edu /~tstreete/Courses/soc150_syllabus.html (3237 words)

	Music in American Popular Culture
		Unwilling to embrace the African American culture which produces rap, which true identification with this music requires, they abandon this cultural item and turn their interests to more acceptable forms of mainstream American culture.
		Notably, fl culture, as manifested in rap and hip-hop music, is most often embraced by white youth.
		However, as his statements indicate, he used it more as a means of affirming his cultural heritage rather than his masculinity, although that may have been a part of it as well.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /archive/music/rap_white_men.htm (3438 words)

	Races and Faces in Popular Culture-Minstrelsy
		The stereotype of the happy and ignorant fl man comforted whites during the era of slavery and helped justify the ideology of white supremacy.
		Racist caricatures, made popular by the "Jim Crow" figure and later 19th century minstrel shows, continue to pervade popular culture's constructions of whiteness and flness.
		Critics argue that cultural practices such as flface are instrumental in the creation of the illusion of racial difference and in the reinforcement of white supremacist attitudes.
	www.uwm.edu /~gjay/Whiteness/analyzingstereotypes.htm (1638 words)

	American University Library - Popular Music Mediagraphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Beat Street delves into the hip-hop culture of New York's streets to uncover the despairs, dreams, and triumphs of an emerging generation.
		Documents the rising popularity of bhangra music, originally from the Punjab and popularized in England, principally by Bally Sagoo, with the addition of Western instrumentation, rap and techno beats, and special effects.
		Three generations of klezmer musicians are working together to revive this vigorous and soulful expression of Yiddish culture which originated in Eastern Europe and was influenced by Gypsy, Greek and other old world melodies, as a well as American jazz, before almost dying out.
	www.library.american.edu /subject/media/popular_music.html (4621 words)

	Smelly Knowledge \| Exploring the depths of learning, identity, and community over technology. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A meme is defined by Wiktionary as, “a unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.” I had mentioned memes earlier in passing, without really delving much deeper.
		Cultural adaptation works many times faster than biological adaptation; a man can sew a sweater in far less time than it will take natural selection to make his great-great-grandchildren hairier.
		So we pass on memes because culture is adaptable in a more efficient and far-flung manner than biology (unless you’re a fruitfly).
	blog.zappazoom.com (3245 words)

	AC 161, Section 11: American Popular Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cultural historian George Lipsitz says that hegemony is not something that is imposed upon people but is struggled over.
		Discuss this statement with regard to popular culture in America examining the ways in which social groups differentiated by class, race, ethnicity, and gender interact with one another in and around cultural forms.
		Illustrate the ways in which the dominant ideology is imposed upon groups through popular culture and examples of the ways in which people use popular culture as a means of resistance.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/AmCiv/syllabi/16111.html (3038 words)

	Popular Culture: Videotapes in the Media Resources Center UC Berkeley
		Popular music and movies of the time are featured along with wartime footage, home movies, and original stories from Americans who lived through those momentous years.
		Explores the culture in which today's American teenager is growing up, and the relationships among teens, parents, the media and the marketers of popular culture.
		The reasons are as varied as the patterns and processes: they seek to define themselves and their positions in society, to declare their allegiance to a god or to a cause, to conform to the customs of a group or to shock or entertain.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/PopcultureVid.html (13384 words)

	New Page 1
		An introductory course that examines leading theories of racial and ethnic relations in the United States and assesses their significance and relevance in explaining historic and contemporary relations between the white majority and the racial and ethnic minorities.
		in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
		The Ethnic and Racial Studies Student Academic Club is an organization comprised of of both students and faculty interested in ethnic and racial studies.
	www.uwlax.edu /EthnicStudies (2049 words)

	Global Connections . Stereotypes \| PBS
		Stereotypical images are used repeatedly as shorthand to evoke a particular reaction.
		Just as there is a vast diversity in ethnicities, religions, cultures, and language groups in the United States, there are also broad differences in the definition of family values here.
		Culture, language, and religion are distinct qualities that act in different ways to connect Arabs and to distinguish them from one another.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/questions/types (2517 words)

	Science gets the last laugh on ethnic jokes - Science Mysteries - MSNBC.com
		The researchers tested the possibility that cultural stereotypes might be based, at least partly, on real experiences that people have interacting with each other.
		If this were true, then such stereotypes would reflect the average personality of real members of that culture.
		Yet another possibility is that some very specific components of a stereotype may be accurate — for example, Italians may gesture with their hands a lot — but that they don’t necessarily tell us anything more generally about personality.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/9598717 (700 words)

	June 2005 Jahsonic (07)
		Similarly, actors of colour were often barred from roles for which they were otherwise suited; some found work perfoming ethnic stereotypes.
		Denied access to conventional media such as newspapers or network television, anti-war and counter cultural activists took advantage of technological innovations in printing processes to create media of their own.
		He argues that a culture blossoms from the soil of a definable landscape and dies when it has exhausted all of its possibilities.
	www.jahsonic.com /2005Jun07.html (4163 words)

	Messer-Krus Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The campus cartoonists distorted the figures of each targeted group according to prevailing racist stereotypes and placed them in situations that expressed whites' beliefs in their moral or physical inferiority.
		While such racial and ethnic stereotypes permeated American popular culture during the 1920's, not everyone, even within the fraternity world, approved of them or took them for granted.
		As a consequence, he was handicapped when he tried to run for class president, and he withdrew from the contest.
	slisweb.lis.wisc.edu /~jcherney/kkk8.htm (1222 words)

	THE CULTURE OF HAITI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Haitians have a vibrant culture that is in many ways unique because it combines traditional values with ethnic originality.
		Despite stereotypes of voodoo as primitive and malicious "fl magic," it is a based on traditional African values (the word voodoo means "spirit") and beliefs.
		Despite popular stereotypes that Creole is a low-class dialect, it is actually a full language that can be used officially.
	www.georgetown.edu /users/bjm26/culture_of_haiti.htm (372 words)

	Ethnic and Racial Stereotypes in Manga
		Just as the civil rights movement altered American culture, Japanese pop culture has been changing, and just as attitudes differ person by person in the U.S., the same is true in Japan.
		It is not within the scope of this document to go into the actual horrors and warfare of the turbulent first half of the 20th century.
		Suffice it to say that, in post-war Japan, some of the old stereotypes and artistic styles continued to play a role into the 50s, 60s, and probably beyond, I think in large part due to the lack of a vocal minority population and lack of a big civil rights movement.
	www.mit.edu /people/rei/manga-ethnic.html (1229 words)

	KQED: Bay Area Mosaic
		The cartoons portrayed heroic African-American figures, instead of the exaggerated stereotypes of the Mainstream Press' cartoons, and photographs captured African-Americans in daily life, showing them to be different than the stereotypes portrayed.
		As a class, brainstorm a list of stereotypes and how they are used in music, television and motion pictures.
		Have students keep a log for one week in which they will record their observations about racial stereotyping in the media (including news stories, advertisements, television programs, music, music videos, billboards and movies).
	www.kqed.org /w/mosaic/africanamerican/lp02.html (1961 words)

	Amazon.com: Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830 (Johns Hopkins ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, Felsenstein focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" eighteenth century, from roughly 1660 through 1830.
		He describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages.
		WHEN, IN 1941, Cecil Roth concluded his History of the Jews in England with a deferential tribute to what he called the "alembic of English tolerance," he was voicing a belief that had been diligently cultivated by several generations of Anglo-Jewish scholars.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0801861799?v=glance (1193 words)

	EthnicStudies - UCSD
		The study of race and ethnicity in mass media is a terrain of contradictory, and often oppositional, methods and arguments.
		Each approach is deeply suspicious of the other, and both often fail to understand or account for the range of knowledge in the field.
		Much of the scholarship in this area has been concerned with the problem of representation—the images that have been produced about racial and ethnic groups, the effects of these images on national culture, social life, and politics, and strategies for altering or eliminating damaging stereotypes.
	www.ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu /html/ESsyllabus253.html (714 words)

	California Newsreel - Recommended for High School Use
		Storytellers recount the founding myths of Malagasy culture and place storytelling into its social and geographical context.
		Defining moments in the Civil Rights Movement are re-examined: the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Scholars shed light on the origins and consequences of anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the Antebellum period to the Civil Rights era.
	www.newsreel.org /nav/topics.asp?cat=22 (275 words)

	Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean » Regional rivalries and humour in the Greco-Roman world (Jokes 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Greco-Roman culture was marked by a competitive atmosphere in which individuals, groups, and communities sought to gain honour and reputation, sometimes at the expense of someone else’s shame.
		Cities, too, were often among the competitors for honour and, as Dio Chrysostom’s speeches to Greek cities in Asia Minor and elsewhere show (late first century CE), rivalries between particular cities could get quite heated, ranging from ongoing name-calling to violent clashes and war.
		As in modern regional rivalries or region-centric thinking (in Canada it was once common to hear jokes about people from Newfoundland), sometimes negativity towards another area or people could take the form of ethnic stereotypes, including jokes.
	www.philipharland.com /Blog/2005/12/18/regional-rivalries-and-humour-in-the-greco-roman-world-jokes-2 (550 words)

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