Media Representations of Ethnicity
- Black and Asian groups are negatively stereotyped creating scapegoats for social issues – ethnic minorities get blamed for things like economic issues (think deviancy amplification spiral)
- Minority ethnic groups are often represented as law-breakers and deviants in TV and film roles
- Ethnic minorities are represented as posing a threat with their ‘alien’ culture creating an ‘enemy within’
- They are also represented in the news as causing social problems such as asylum seekers who are really economic migrants and not people fleeing persecution
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