Australia is commonly known as a multicultural country with multicultural views. Australian TV gives people of different heritage a chance to achieve big in the industry. This is seen through the large quantity of awards given to people from different cultures, for example, the 2016 Logies gave awards to people with Egyptian, Chinese, Italian, Greek, and Australian backgrounds. This shows our cultural diversity on the screens and how everyone is treated equally. However, this is an illusion and only shows the front line of television. A study committed back in 2002 used a small sample of 65 actors to determine the likelihood of an actor of a certain culture getting an audition. This study showed that people who weren't born or don't have family …show more content…
An exception of this would be networks such as SBS and ABC which have a large cast of cultures and don't use race to hire their actors.
Australia's views of different cultures and races have been seen through different channels and different times, these views date back to 1956 when television began all the way to today. While countries such as America have an issue with relying on stereotypes of cultures and using racist characters Australia has an issue with people who share their racist views over live television but how do other countries deal with racism? Is Australia the most racist country? One of the biggest examples of America’s issues with stereotypical characters is the big bang theory. Raj from big bang theory follows nearly every male Indian stereotype in the book he’s a nerdy, awkward guy who struggles to talks to girls, however, this
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An example of this is ABC’s Indigenous quarter which is an entire quarter set on creating “Programs that are bold, provocative and original; that push people’s buttons. They should create conversations and make you think, laugh or cry or all of the above” Nicole Stevens, 2016. This is the general grounds that the ABC sets for its shows based on indigenous people and indigenous characters. SBS also follows ABC with non-racist shows due to the variety of cultures working within the system which constantly make sure everything they produce is smart, original and inoffensive. However, other channels don’t seem to follow this pattern and racism appears often on their channels an example of this happening is Sam Armytage saying a bluntly racist comment on the morning show Sunrise .These racist outcries happen multiple times a year on these different talk shows as the people behind it don’t have as many backgrounds as something like ABC or SBS, which causes these racist people to not feel any guilt for their words and act as if it’s just a normal thing to state. But this is just one case of hundreds of racist remarks on TV. However Australian TV doesn’t just share racist views
The 2014 Walkley Award winning documentary, "Cronulla Riots: the day that shocked the nation" reveals to us a whole new side of Aussie culture. No more she’ll be right, no more fair go and sadly no more fair dinkum. The doco proved to all of us (or is it just me?) that the Australian identity isn’t really what we believe it to be. After viewing this documentary
We could see racism take place when Gail and Cynthia try to go into town to audition for the talent quest, but as nobody would stop for them because they were aboriginal. We also see racism when Julie, Cynthia and Gail sang Dave started to play along while British settlement citizens started to leave because they knew they had bad impression on the indigenous Australian girls when they first walked in because they were aboriginal and since they were aboriginal, they white people had racist thoughts of them. Although when the indigenous girls lost they knew they could still follow up and never give up on their dreams. Until they only had one a piece of article that contained a chance to sing for the soldiers in Vietnam which lead them to better performances and more confidence to
Over the years Australia has had many different problems with racism and racism affecting peoples’ lives. Many racial groups have been affected, most significantly the Aboriginals. The end of world war two in 1945 marked a huge change in types of racism. Australia went from the ‘superior’ white Australians dominating over immigrants and aboriginals. To a relatively multicultural and accepting society that is present today.
These stereotypes include; drunk, violent, lazy, petrol sniffer, live in the outback, un-educated, criminals and have to fit the image of dark skin with wide noses (Korff, 2014). Indigenous youth are confronted with these during their school life. They will be called names and bullied because people believe these stereotypes, assuming they apply to all Indigenous people. Tammy Williams, from Black Chicks Talking is an example of the bulling Indigenous teenagers face during school. At school one year, a group of teenagers from the school wrote nigger above her school photo in the year book. This was just part of the bullying she received during her school life for being Aboriginal. Tammy is not a stereotypical Aboriginal. She has travelled to America, has won multiple awards and is now a lawyer. Botj, from Yolngu Boy, is a stereotypical Aboriginal. He is a petrol sniffer, smoker and criminal and he is lazy. However, there is a story behind why Botj is like this. Botj is a troubled teenager who drinks and smokes as his father is an alcoholic. He had a troubled family life and this contributes to the actions he takes. The media is largely to blame for the negative stereotypes of Aboriginal People. The media reports negative stereotypes of the Aboriginal community, drinking problems and violent behaviours, which intern makes the white Australian community believe the negative stereotypes that have been
If we look at the early history of Australian television, virtually all program material until 1963 was of foreign origin, of which eighty three percent were American and the rest British (Cited in an article by Cunningham Stuart, “History, Contexts, Politics, Policy”). Philip Bell discusses in his article that even in the first two decades of television ‘American programs and formats dominated commercial channels’ (Cited in an article by Bell Phillip, ‘Television’). So Americanization of Australian television is not just a recent development. This problem has been there right from the beginning, with American shows like Leave it to Beaver and I love Lucy dominating the TV screens of Australian households. Many are concerned with this issue, a good example is shown in an article written by David Dale, readers were asked if they were shocked by the revelation that all the most popular dramas and comedies on Australian television were made in America, and whether they thought TV stations should be forced to show more stories from other countries, including Australia.
going on ever since then. Many people presume that racism has existed since people have started to notice
Racism (n): the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other race (Wordnet search, 1), a controversial topic in today’s society, a subject that many people try to sweep under the rug, but yet a detrimental problem that has been present in America since the colonial era. Will this dilemma come to a halt? Can all Americans see each other as equals despite their skin color and nationality; and what role has it played in past generations versus today’s generations and how will it affect our future? Has this on going way of thinking gotten better or worse? These are questions raised when many think about the subject; especially members of American ethnic groups and backgrounds, because most have dealt with racial discrimination in their life time.
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For example, the show Everybody Hates Chris portrays an African-American family living in Bed-Sty, Brooklyn. The family is shown as living from paycheck to paycheck and trying to better their lives. Yet, the neighborhood around them influences many of their decisions. Many of the minor characters are portrayed as African-American people who will do anything in order to survive, such as murder or steal. It also shows the Caucasian persons as being superior and “better”.
There is a reference to our multiculturalism in the lines ‘All cultures together as one. Yet, individual until the game is won’. These lines acknowledge the fact that even though Australia is an increasingly Multicultural society, all Australians, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, share the same values, principles and national identity.
Dating back to the beginning of times people have always been looked at different depending on the color of their skin or what your religion, race, or beliefs may be. It is in our human nature to not like people for certain things that they are. Many will argue that in this day in age we are no longer at a race war but how can you be so sure when you actually open your eyes and see reality. Rapper Kanye West once said “racism is still alive, they just be concealing it” and these words are everything but false. You must ask yourself the real question about racism and it is how could you ever cure such a thing in people’s minds? People are free to think and believe what ever they would like and old habits such as racism will never change in people.
In today society, media has become a very big factor in everyone’s lives. We communicate with media, with memes, videos, images and animated gif to create meaning. We especially see whiteness ideals in sports. Through memes, we stereotype certain racial groups like Latinos as lazy or African American a weak or uneducated. The memes show athletes as being less strong then white athletes. Which in today society, we have what its called color blind racism which means “race doesn’t shape the person experience or life changes but racial inequality still their with different groups cultural difference” (Dickerson, 2015, pg 4). So even today there is racial inequality, and whiteness still shapes social norms, and media show racism and inequality. Though in my opinion, racism is sometimes unconscious because we try to become society that more
After the release of Rabbit Proof Fence, many `politically right' white Australians tried to promote that the film was based on myth and misunderstanding but in facet is not as the film itself promotes the openness of racism. Racism was not only a problem is Australia but throughout the world and is continuing to stay a problem, even in our own backyard. The racism between the white Australians and the Aborigines is quite similar to the racism shown in schools and even in parliament here in New Zealand between the Maori and Europeans, or once again between the `white' and the `black'.
In todays society “whiteness is not anything, really, not an identity, not a particularizing quality” (Dyer, 1997, p. 142) and as such “secures its power by seeming to not be anything in particular” (Dyer,1997, p.44). As a non-Indigenous Australian I have remained part of a group which was unmarked, unnamed, and unraced. Whiteness in definition is not limited to skin colour but also refers to “ideologies, policies and practices involved in the domination and subordination of colonised peoples on the basis of ‘race’...to the institutions of power that carry out [these] practices: Parliament, the legal system, churches, schools, the welfare system… ”(Deane, 2014, p. 6). During the period spanning from the 1970’s to the 1990’s “Whiteness became
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however what is considered beautiful by some is not considered as beauty when discussing diversity within the media. Society is based on criticism of judging one’s characters body, shape and or race/ethnics background. In the media the society only sees one type that is only focused on perfection to the mind; however within the United States, it is very typical in that the media lacks ethnic representation, cultural identity and gender inequalities. There are no ethnic representation when it comes to the media world and that the media has been trained to believe that the ethnic groups are not valuable. African Americans and Hispanics writers are the minority group when it comes to a social group. According to journalist Prince and Television critic Deggans “CNN , let go one of its most high-profile anchor of color, Soledad O’Brien, replaced her with a white man, Chris Cuomo. Wolf Blitzer gave up one of his hours to another white man, Tapper. Though Zucker met with both National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalist to try and address their concerns, there has been no overt sign from CNN that it is bringing on any more anchors of color, ”(Mirkinson p.1).