Ethnicity

In this funny and insightful ted talk, eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu Shares the Asian-American story of breaking stereotypes and reaffirming stereotypes. She talks about how she thought that she needed to confirm to the stereotypes that were expected from her. Eating rice, being a bad driver, a math wizard, not going to sleepovers because she isn’t allowed and being a model minority.

The questions people ask her:
‘’I have a Chinese friend do you know him?’’
‘’Where does your name come from?’’
‘’Where are you from?’’
‘’Where are you really from?’’

She elaborates on her own experiences and talks about adapting to the norm, meeting expectations and adapting to her white environment. “The more I rejected my Chinese identity the more popular I became.” It is a short personal story, in which she puts her finger on the right places when it comes to expectations and stereotypes in society. "All I can do is share my story."

This picture shows the cast of the series blackish. This series is a comedy series about a family in America. You follow the characters on their journeys in the tv show. The reason why this series is involved with inclusivity is because for a very long time most international tv shows and movies contain a fully white cast of actors. Blackish is one of the first tv shows that follows an African- American family and their journeys in life. Because of the success of these series the makers made a bunch of new series such as grownish and mixed ish who both also show inclusivity. These series are known for breaking a lot of stereotypes.

The movie Hidden figures tells a story about three women working at NASA. The film tells the true story of African-American scientists Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson who all worked in the West Area Computing Unit at NASA Langley Research Center. The West Area Computing Unit was an all-female African-American group that played a significant role in the space race. Thanks to their calculations, the American astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.

Scarlett lives in two different worlds in which she is very much looking for her place. She lives with her parents in a poorer neighbourhood, while she goes to school in the suburbs. At her school, she often notices that people want to prove themselves against her and that they have knowledge about hip-hop and slang. In the neighbourhood where she lives, she is often recognized as the girl who goes to a white school.
She fights against the stereotypes that surround her community, while she has to defend her community. The existence of these stereotypes means that Scarlett does not feel completely at home in both communities. In her search for her place within the community and school, breaking stereotypes is necessary and this is something that many people experience and that’s why the conversation is really important.

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Kendrick Lamar makes a statement implying that no matter your ethnicity you matter and belong as much to this world as anyone else does. In this song he breaks through the stereotype of having a different ethnicity means not being an equal. According to his views on society, everyone should be included.

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In this song Michael Jackson delivers the message stating there’s only one race and that’s the human race where every human should be included in no matter your ethncity. He rejects the stereotype of seeing different ethnicities as different races.

“Where your blood comes from Is where your space is I've seen the bright get duller I'm not going to spend my life being a color”
This segment of the song, performed by L.T.B., is pretty much self-explanatory.

This article discusses a topic that sparked up a debate, namely the fact there’s a clear underrepresentation of women wearing a hijab in the Western modelling world. The demand for models wearing a hijab is low due to the stereotype assuming that the Western modelling world isn’t meant for models wearing a hijab since showing (relatively a lot of) skin in fotoshoots is compulsory. The before mentioned stereotype came into existence because the Western modelling world is mainly a Western-centered world where perspectives and believes that deviate from this world are ignored or underrepresented. This results in women wearing a hijab to rarely be and feel included. However, a lot of muslim women state their desire to either participate or be (more) represented in the modelling world

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An amazing film about the history of black people.
In the west, there are a huge amount of stereotypes on black people, a lot of these stereotypes seem to come from a place of badly taught history. This film acknowledges that problem and builds on that same problem.
In this movie, the protagonist is a racist neo-nazi that gets robbed at home by black people, wich ‘cofirms his prejudices’. He ends up in jail and gets to know a black guy that becomes his friend and debunks all the stereotypes about black people the protagonist has. Meanwhile, the little brother of the protagonist is hanging with the same guys his brother used to hang with, so he gets taught a lot of neo-nazism norms aswell. The film then starts a second character arch. The little brother gets extra history classes by a black teacher to try and get the little brother on the right path again, these classes are called ‘American History X’ and again, are a necessary piece of film to break the stereotypes of black people just coming to America to steal, rob and kill people.
This film breaks a lot of stereotypes and debunks a lot of prejudices about black people, I honestly think that everyone should have seen this movie once.

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In this documentary Movie director Sunny Bergman investigates the moral of the 'elite' consisting out of well educated white people. The elite doesn't believe white privilege exists and disguise their racism with blaming immigrants for their poor integration.

Sunny Bergman interviews social scientists, the elite, vicitms of racism and confronts the audience with the unfilterd harsh reality with social experiments. One of such experiments is presenting both a white-skinnend and a black-skinned doll next to each other to toddlers. They have to choose the doll they'd rather play with. The white-skinned doll is systematically opreferred over the black-skinned doll by either white-skinned and black-skinnend toddlers. The black-skinnend doll is being described by the toddlers as among other things bad and les smart than the white-skinned doll.

The stereotype stating that being white is normal and every skintone deviating from that is an abnormality. This sterotype has even incorporated the mindset of toddlers who can't graps the concept of social construct (yet).