tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43464112630716612972024-02-07T14:16:13.519+01:00Stereotypes & Mass Media"How Mass Media use stereotypes to condition people?
What is the role of stereotypes in decision-making processes?"Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-48311413547355469362012-12-09T13:25:00.000+01:002012-12-09T13:28:39.826+01:00Nelson Mandela's inaugural address<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The election
of Nelson Mandela ends more than three centuries of white rule in South Africa
and close the era of apartheid. In April 1994 was called the first democratic
election in South Arica, after the government of white supremacy. Apartheid was a word used for the system of racial
segregation in South Africa, enforced through legislation by the national Party
governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994. </span> <span lang="EN-US">Nelson Mandela, before his election
as president, </span>was a militant anti-apartheid activist, and the leader
and co-founder of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In
1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and
other charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Mandela went on to serve 27
years in prison, spending many of these years on Robben Isalnd.
Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, Mandela led his party in
the negotiations that led to the establishment of democracy in 1994. As
president, he frequently gave priority to reconciliation, while introducing
policies aimed at combating poverty and inequality in South Africa<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">It is an inaugural
speech delivered in 10<sup>th</sup> May of 1994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT">“</span><i>Your Majesties, Your Highnesses,
Distinguished Guests, Comrades and friends</i><span lang="IT">”- the use of friends and comrades is important and makes the speech less formal.
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<span lang="IT">The use of “<i>all of us</i>”, “<i>we</i>”, “<i>south africans</i>” show the following policy of Nelson Mandela,
the policy of conciliation, of alliance between white and black people for the
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<span lang="IT">“</span><i>We, the people of South Africa,</i><i><span lang="IT">”</span></i><span lang="IT"> streghten all the construction of the
policy of Nelson Mandela. There is no difference between black and white, but
all are the people of South Africa. There is much more different from the
policy and speech of the period of apartheid. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT">The core of the
speech is freedom, and we see it in the last part of the speech, where the
accent is the freedom and the heroes of the world that sacrifice their lives
for the freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT">“</span><i>We are both humbled and elevated by the
honour and privilege that you, the people of South Africa, have bestowed on us,
as the first President of a united, democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South
Africa, to lead our country out of the valley of darkness</i>.<span lang="IT">” This point is very important non racial and no sexist
South Africa, the aim to reach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There be</i>” and the final phrase have a powerfull impact: “</span><i>Let freedom reign.<br />
The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!</i><i><span lang="IT">”</span></i><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-62463031995827038122012-12-03T19:44:00.001+01:002013-01-14T11:53:25.765+01:00The Romney's secret speech about Obama's voters: stereotyping the poor <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This is an extract of a Mitt Romney's speech during a dinner with his 30 most
important campaign donors. The video was secretly recorded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Obama voters:</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">47 percent of the people - will vote (material)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">47 percent - are with him (relational)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">47 percent - are dependent upon government (relational)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">47 percent - believe (mental) that they are victims (relational)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">47 percent - believe (mental) the government…</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">47 percent - believe (mental) that they are entitled (material) to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">they - will vote for this president (material)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">people who - pay no income tax (material)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They - should take (material) personal responsibility and care (material) for their lives</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">government - has a responsibility to care for them (relational)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">the government - should give (material)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My job - is (not to worry about those people) (relational)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I - will never convince them (material)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The analysis of this speech is quite simple, because here Romney addresses to a small group of supporters, so he has not to pay attention to be politically correct or to disguise its purposes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There are two main subjects in the discourse: Romney and Obama's voters, that the republican candidate oppose to him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think the aim of the speech is to reassure backers, rich and conservative people, that they will hold their privileges if the Republican Party wins the election. Romney wants to underline that he will not reach any compromise with poor people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The expression “poor people” is not explicitly mentioned but it is presented as a synonym of “Obama's voters”. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“They believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it”: they believe they are entitled to exist even if they have the guilty to be not rich!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Romney often uses the word “they” to distance himself from the poorest, which he considers unwilling or unable to change their lives. In his point of view there is not a problem of the entire society for the bad conditions in which a lot of people live, but there is the guilty of the individuals to be poor. To remark his distance, Romney makes use of negative form when he tells about his position (“my job is not to worry about“, “I’ll never convince them“) towards the “47 percent of people”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, poverty is presented as a monolithic reality, without distinctions. This demonstrate the will to ignore the matter, even if a lot of people became poor when the crisis unleashed because of the instability of the financial markets and the bad management of the economy by government. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Angela Pulliero</span>Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-21091361827523495462012-12-03T19:24:00.000+01:002012-12-03T19:24:06.600+01:00analysis of Bush speech "Update in the War on Terror"<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’m going
to analyze the <a href="http://www.presidentialrhetoric.com/speeches/09.07.03.html">speech</a> president Bush made on 7<sup>th</sup> September 2003 to
update the public on the war on terror.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The specific
aim of this speech is to convince Americans and the rest of the world that the
American government is fighting for a just cause.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The speech
is divided into two main parts. Firstly, the president talks about what is
being done to combat terror in Afghanistan and Iraq. Secondly, he focuses on
their Iraqi mission and explains the American government objectives of the
same.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With careful
reading it is obvious that during the whole speech the Middle Eastern World is
stereotyped in a negative way. Whereas the western world, in particular the USA,
is represented in a positive way. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All of the
adjectives and nouns referring to the Arab world are negative, e.g. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">terror, oppressed, violence, bombs,
suffering, resentments</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">torture, etc.</b>
On the other hand, all the nouns and adjectives referred to the American nation
are of a more positive nature, e.g. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">human,
progress, tolerance, peace, democracy, etc.</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the same
way, the verbs concerning the Middle eastern fighters are negative, e.g. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ambushed, killed, bombed, murdered etc ; </b>instead
positive verbs are used to describe American actions, e.g. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">make, promote, support, helping, prevent, represent etc.</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The fact that
the Western countries are defined as “the civilized world” implies that the rest
of the world isn’t so. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These are
all deliberate linguistic choices made to portray the Iraqi government and the
fighters as evil, the American army as the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> saviours</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> and the population as tyranny victims who see
the foreign forces as liberators and not conquerors.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Silvia Bettiol </span></div>
Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-10712295443251967742012-12-03T12:42:00.004+01:002012-12-03T12:43:16.236+01:00Speech about South Africa<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">This is a
lesser known speech of Martin Luther King, that talks about South Africa. In the speech delivered at Hunter College (New
York) on 10 December 1965 (Human Rights Day) </span>King addresses media portrayals
of Africa as ‘barbaric,’ the institution of white supremacy in South
Africa, the connection between black Americans and Africa, and the hope of
progressive political action between blacks and whites. <span lang="EN-US">In the opening of his speech, Martin Luther King starts
to deal with the common stereotypes about Africa and calls out the system of
white supremacy</span><span lang="IT">:</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="IT">“</span><i>Africa
has been depicted for more than a century as the home of black cannibals and
ignorant primitives. Despite volumes of facts contraverting this picture, the
stereotype persists in books, motion pictures, and other media of
communication. Africa does have spectacular savages and brutes today, but they
are not black. They are the sophisticated white rulers of South Africa who
profess to be cultured, religious and civilized, but whose conduct and
philosophy stamp them unmistakably as modern-day barbarians. We are in an era
in which the issue of human rights is the central question confronting all
nations. In this complex struggle an obvious but little appreciated fact has
gained attention-the large majority of the human race is non-white-yet it is
that large majority which lives in hideous poverty. While millions enjoy an
unexampled opulence in developed nations, ten thousand people die of hunger
each and every day of the year in the undeveloped world. To assert white
supremacy, to invoke white economic and military power, to maintain the status
quo is to foster the danger of international race war . . . What does the South
African Government contribute to this tense situation? These are the incendiary
words of the South African philosophy spoken by its Prime Minister, Dr.
Verwoerd: “We want to keep South Africa white. Keeping it white can only mean
one thing, namely, white domination, not ‘leadership’, not ‘guidance’, but
control, supremacy.”<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>The South African Government to make the white supreme
has had to reach into the past and revive the nightmarish ideology and
practices of nazism. We are witnessing a recrudescence of the barbarism which
murdered more humans than any war in history. In South Africa today, all
opposition to white supremacy is condemned as communism, and in its name, due
process is destroyed; a medieval segregation is organized with twentieth
century efficiency and drive; a sophisticated form of slavery is imposed by a
minority upon a majority which is kept in grinding poverty; the dignity of
human personality is defiled; and world opinion is arrogantly defied.</i><span lang="IT">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT">Then Martin
Luther King express the connection between white supremacy in the United States and the apartheid
syste in South Africa, several decades before anti apartheid ovement become
popular in the US. </span>King highlight<span lang="EN-US">s</span> a Pan-African sensibility, <span lang="EN-US">accurately</span> drawing connections between the continent of Africa
and, in the language of his day, “the American Negro.” <span lang="EN-US">The struggle for civil rights
for African Americans is linked with other struggles for human rights around the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="IT">“</span><i>For
the American Negro there is a special relationship with Africa. It is the land
of his origin. It was despoiled by invaders; its culture was arrested and
concealed to justify white supremacy. The American Negro’s ancestors were not
only driven into slavery, but their links with their past were severed so that
their servitude might be psychological as well as physical. In this period when
the American Negro is giving moral leadership and inspiration to his own
nation, he must find the resources to aid his suffering brothers in his
ancestral homeland. Nor is this aid a one-way street. The civil rights movement
in the United States has derived immense inspiration from the successful
struggles of those Africans who have attained freedom in their own nation’s.
The fact that black men govern States, are building democratic institutions,
sit in world tribunals, and participate in global decision-making gives every
Negro a needed sense of dignity.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>In this effort, the American Negro will not be alone. As
this meeting testifies, there are many white people who know that liberty is
indivisible. Even more inspiring is the fact that in South Africa itself
incredibly brave white people are risking their careers, their homes and their
lives in the cause of human justice. Nor is this a plea to Negroes to fight on
two fronts. The struggle for freedom forms one long front crossing oceans and
mountains. The brotherhood of man is not confined within a narrow, limited
circle of select people. It is felt everywhere in the world; it is an
international sentiment of surpassing strength. Because this is true, when men
of good will finally unite, they will be invincible</i><i><span lang="EN-US">.</span></i><span lang="IT">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="IT">Valeria Aleksenko</span></div>
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<span lang="IT"><br /></span></div>
Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-86786961484800002102012-12-03T12:24:00.003+01:002012-12-08T12:51:38.382+01:00What are your views on Homelessness?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What are your views on Homelessness? Are they all addicts, will they ever amount to anything in their life?<br /><br />Do you think that the numerous stereotypes associated with the word "Homeless" hold a lot of people back from taking the small steps towards independent life? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://video-subtitle.tedcdn.com/talk/podcast/2009G/None/BeckyBlanton_2009G-low-en.mp4">BeckyBlanton / Sub Eng</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/becky_blanton_the_year_i_was_homeless.html">The year I was homeless</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Backy Blanton: </b></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went <u>from being a talented writer and journalist to being a homeless woman</u>, living in a van, took my breath away </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I felt out of control my life </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My talent, my integrity, my values, everything about me <u>remained the same.</u> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hadn’t changed my I.Q. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u>Was I a writer or was I a homeless woman?</u> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I failed to realize three critical things: One: that <u>society equates living in a permanent structure, even a snack, with having value as a person. </u>Two: I failed to realize how quickly the <u>negative perception</u> of other people can impact our reality, if we let it. Three: I failed to realize that <u>homelessness is an attitude</u>, not a lifestyle. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Homeless:</b> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I learned how to do was to <u>become invisible </u></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Other homeless people didn’t see me as a homeless </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You have a job, you have a hope. <u>The real homeless don’t have hope </u></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><br /></u></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Society:</b> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Society continues <u>to stigmatize and criminalize</u> living in your vehicle or on the streets. So the homeless, primarily<u> remain invisible.</u><b> </b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Becky Blanton is a writer. She was a journalist for more than 22 years, working as a reporter, photojournalist and editor. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 2006 Becky was living in a Walmart parking lot in a stripped out, 1975 Chevy van with her Rottweiler and a house cat. In 2009 she was speaking at TED Global at Oxford University in England, courtesy of best selling author and former vice presidential speech writer, Dan Pink. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Her father died from a cancerous brain tumor in February 2006. Becky was the editor of a small town newspaper in Colorado at the time. She quit her job, bought an old van and decided to hit the road and freelance her way around the country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So she did, for a little over a year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Speaking at TED has been a wonderful way <u>to help many people with her story.</u> </span></div>
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At the end of the speech she says: <b>“I’m here to tell you that, based on my experience, people are not where they live, where they sleep, or what their life situation is at any given time” </b></div>
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This is not a political speech: this is a real story. </div>
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Bechy shared her story and she wanted to emphasize that <u>homeless are not alcoholics, mentally ill, incapable of holding a job and ambitionless. </u></div>
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Many folks believe that the majority of homeless are drunkards, drug addicts, psychologically disturbed, or just too lazy to work. </div>
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She says: “Those are the <b>typical stereotypes</b>”. </div>
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She didn’t expect was how society’s perception of her would change so quickly. </div>
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Though her talent, IQ, values and personality hadn’t changed, people’s attitudes towards her had. In this touching keynote, Becky Blanton shows that there are thousands of working people who live out of vans and cars and encourages her audience to see that just because someone is homeless, doesn’t mean that their lives don’t have value. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Berton Sara</span></div>
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-25790476101614264042012-12-02T14:16:00.000+01:002012-12-02T14:18:45.548+01:00"If you really knew me..."<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“If You Really Knew Me” is an American reality television series which airs on MTV that focuses on youth subculture and different cliques in high schools. Students from each clique participate in Challenge Day, which is a program designed to break down stereotypes and unite students in schools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">At Challenge Day, students from all walks of life gather together in one room.<br /> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then each student is assigned to a group where they must reveal something personal about themselves. It's at this point where each student begins their dialogue with the words "If you really knew me..."<br /> </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The goal of Challenge Day is to demonstrate to students the possibility of love and connection through the celebration of diversity, truth, and full expression.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.challengeday.org/">Challenge Day</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://ondemand.mtv.it/serie-tv/if-you-really-knew-me">Mtv Italia / On demand/ If you really knew me</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What about you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Complete this sentence and tell me your story: "If you really knew me...."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Berton Sara</span></div>
Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-14869196311080983902012-11-17T20:38:00.001+01:002012-11-18T13:05:27.176+01:00"Campanians are dodgers and Lombards are snobs": Clichés within Italy<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reading Sara's post I realized that there are many national stereotypes about Italy, but we have also many regional clichés. It is fun to identify them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here you find some examples:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Ligurians</b> are said to be tight with money.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Lombards</b> are considered pretentious, cold, efficient, hard-working, snobs and money-obsessed.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Campanians</b> are seen as lazy people, dodgers, noisy, friendly and good in making pizza.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Piedmonteses</b> are supposed to be “double-faced”, kind and polite but insincere, as the italian proverb (Piemontesi falsi e cortesi) says.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Romagnoles</b> are considered collectivist and combative people.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>People from Latium</b> are said to be uncultured, unrefined and loud.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Sardinians</b> are seen as stubborn shepherds.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Sicilians</b> are supposed to be members of the mafia and very jealous. They are known also to be “omertosi”: when they witness a crime, they tell to the police that they didn't see or hear anything.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Tuscans</b> are considered ironic and expansive.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Umbrians</b> are seen as reserved. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>People from Veneto</b> are defined hard-working, lush and separatist.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>People from Trentino</b> are considered all Germans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Generally Southerners are considered lazy and warm people, while Northerners are seen as hard-working and cold. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Maybe there is something true in these sentences but almost all are wrong generalization and they can produce discrimination. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The members of the Italian separatist party, “Lega Nord”, often use stereotypes against Southerners to divide Italian people. Their aim is to convince public opinion that North need to be separated from South, the “black hole of wealth” as they call it. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The racism against Southerners dates back to the end of the 19th century, when an Italian positivist, Cesare Lombroso, formulated the theory of the racial inferiority of Southerners. It was an easy and foolish way of explaining historical and economical differences between North and South, but it had great influence on the public opinion. </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These prejudices are so deep rooted that we still hear people saying that Southerners are lazy, criminal and backward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Angela Pulliero</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stereotypes, this is a word we frequently use
in our blog. We are telling stories about many kind of stereotypes to make you understand
the use mass media make of them, but we haven’t yet posted something that can
make you comprehend how people feel when they are stereotyped by someone and I believe
this video is a good example of it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the moment we start stereotyping someone we immediately
hide the personality of that person. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We begin
to cover him/her with adjectives (in our mind), this process makes us
interpreting every word she/he says, action he/she makes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with our interpretations of the way of doing
things without really understand the meaning they give to the word or the
action they are doing. I think it is like looking at the landscape in a sunny day
using sunglasses, you use them to protect your eyes from the sun radiations and
by doing this you can’t see the really color of the landscape because you have
the filtration of the lens; at the same way when you use stereotypes you are
subjected to the filtration of you own opinions and you use them to protect
yourself by the unknown word you have to face. Through this process we prevent
the person from showing us his/her personality preventing ourselves from
something important at the same time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The following video is an example of how the
world is stereotyped. It is made by some students for a school project, they
made no scientific research but used their previous knowledge to do it. This video
is made in a humorous way without any intention of offending someone. It is a
good opportunity to start thinking about the way we use to classify countries
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What do you thing when you hear German, Italian,
Cines or Palestinian? Let’s change the way you look at the world, blot out the
adjective you use to describe people! Let’s take off the sunglasses and look at
the world with its own colors!</span></div>
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-40289092746312765592012-11-17T11:16:00.001+01:002012-11-17T11:17:46.875+01:00Immigrants and Crime<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In every national newspaper we find a lot of article
talking about crime committed by immigrants. The journalist emphasizes the
nationality of the criminal, so the population has the perception that
immigrants committed much more crimes. Much of the debate regarding immigration
is driven by hysteria, facts are secondary. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we have a long tradition of blaming immigrants for crime (and other social
ills), the facts show that – all else being equal – unauthorized immigrants
commit crimes at rates far lower than natives. In fact, immigration lowers
violent crime.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>For example, as the immigrant
population of the United States boomed during the 1990s, violent crime across
the country </i><i><span style="color: white;">plummeted</span></i><i><span style="color: white;">,</span>
including in big-city immigrant gateways like Los Angeles and New York.</i></span><i><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: IT;">”</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In every society, where the problem of immigration is
cherished, the immigrants are the cause of all the problems of the Nation. This
happens, probably because, the newspaper underlines the fact that the criminal
is immigrant with title like</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: IT;">: “Nigerian immigrant committed a bloody murder” or “Rumenian
illegal immigrant committed a holdup”. Obviosly the illegal immigrants are often
charged by national population of all crimes committed. The national population
is often afraid by immigrants</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, even though this immigrants are honest people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: IT;"><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1717575,00.html">Immigration: No Correlation with Crime</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: IT;"><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/05/14-11">Crime and Imigrants</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: IT;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-6703953.html">Does Illegal Immigration Lead to More Crime</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: IT;"><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/06/public-study-illegal-immigrants-commit-less-crime-than-americans/">Public Study:</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/06/public-study-illegal-immigrants-commit-less-crime-than-americans/"> Illegal ImmigrationsCommit Less More Crime Than Americans</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Valeria Aleksneko</div>
Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-50601104695583361632012-11-13T11:09:00.000+01:002012-11-14T16:43:39.513+01:00The Italian stereotypes<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">First impressions are not always the best. They are nevertheless sometimes the only judgment we may have on an individual or a person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For example when we think of Northen countries, there are some initial images that come into our minds. We imagine big mountains, small villages with an old woman wearing a shawll and snow all the time. That may sound a bit funny or strange, but it is what our mind conjures up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Where do these first images come from? In our contemporary societies, they often come from television, newspapers, books and adverts in the streets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The media is everywhere and this contributes on a large scale to build these prejudices we might have about individuals or about people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.justlanded.com/english/Italy/Articles/Culture/Being-Italian">Being Italian</a></span><br />
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-33299304547689675832012-11-11T12:54:00.000+01:002012-11-13T10:29:09.115+01:00Arabic World<br />
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<i><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IT;">“</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps no region of the world
is more subject to stereotypes than the Middle East. Being a woman from that
region, I have encountered these stereotypes on many occasions. While I was a teen,
my family lived in Europe for a few years where I was often asked question
reflecting these stereotypes. Do all Turkish women wear the headscarf? Um,
obviously not. Do you ride camels? I have never seen one in my life outside of
a zoo.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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one dinner party, I witnessed my mother get interrogated on whether she was
just dressing in a modern way because she was now in Europe. She kept trying to
explain that she had changed nothing in her wardrobe. “But, can you actually
wear a one-piece bathing suit to swim in a beach,” one of her obnoxious
interrogators persisted, unable to believe she might be telling the truth.
“Well, now that I am a bit older, I do wear the top as well,” she deadpanned.
Ah, the joys of messing with stereotypes.</span></i><i><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: IT;">”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is a single story of one Turkish girl, which illustrates all type of
stereotypes about Arab World. The oldest traditional stereotypes associated
with the Arabic countries are derived from Arabian Nights and include flying
carpets, dreamy palaces, people climbing on an erect rope and djinns.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since 9/11,
people from Middle Eastern countries are often stereotyped as fanatical Muslims
out for blood, hijacking planes, making anti-Semitic comments, slaughtering
sheep in the kitchen, making too many children, conducting suicide bombings,
being aggressively offended by blasphemies or planning terrorist activities.
Arabic immigrants in all European countries are a frequent target in racist
Western propaganda. You just need to see the detention without trial of eight
foreigners in England in 2004, that was incompatible with European human rights
law.</span></div>
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-80789199550853631272012-11-10T18:48:00.001+01:002012-11-12T01:03:54.150+01:00Strong, powerful, tough and respected: stereotypes in defining masculinity<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: white;">The
social construction of femininity is discussed in many studies, but also men
are subjected to the pressure of dominant models. Masculinity is
clearly defined by media. A “real man” have to be strong, good at
sports, brave and absolutely heterosexual. Meanwhile he shouldn't be
sensitive and express his feelings. Further, he should distance
himself from any behavior considered feminine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The
media influence the definition of ourselves and what is ideal. The media,
especially advertising, depict perfect male bodies: muscle, defined,
perfect in proportions. Men in adverts seem as statues rather than
persons. When I looked for an example, I wondered at the
easiness to find it. My research lasted about 20 seconds: I thought to
a brand of wear and I keyed in YouTube “Calvin Klein man advert”
and that's done! A perfect example in my opinion:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: white;">These
images produce a psychological pressure on men. One consequence is
the increase in cases of <a href="http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article/study-16-percent-increase-in-men/">anorexia nervosa in young men</a>. NHS (National
Health Service) in UK found a 66% growth of hospitalized men for
eating disorders over the last ten years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: white;">Men
difficulty admit to be ill, because anorexia is considered a women's
problem and it would be a sign of weakness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Men
are exposed to social models of masculinity from childhood. Society
and parents often teach them to become “real men”. They are used
to hide feelings and weaknesses, to not to cry, because they don't
have to be as a “sissy”. The model is the superhero, also in toys
and movies. For instance, Disney perpetuates stereotypes of what is
masculinity e what is femininity in almost all the movies:</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A
portrayal of men as dominant and powerful in advertising can provoke
violent behaviors. There are adverts, such as the <a href="http://www.chedonna.it/wp-content/uploads/dolce-e-gabbana_small.jpg">Dolce &Gabbana's one</a>,
that glamorize violence, group sex and male dominance.
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Recently
<a href="http://www.jacksonkatz.com/">Jackson Katz</a> realized an interesting documentary on the social construction of
masculinity and violence. His aim is to</span>
enlight and provoke students to consider their own participation in
the culture of contemporary masculinity.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here
the full version:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Angela Pulliero</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Today I want o to speak
about the Sikh.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The Sikh are a religious
group, most of them come from India. It’s quite easy to recognize them because
they use to wear a turban. This has always been a problem for them because they
have been discriminated because they were wearing it. In the documentary -
Turbanaphobia - The Sikh Turban - is explored the western perceptions of the
Sikh turban through the eyes of a Sikh born in England. I have just seen the trailer
but what the protagonist says is that turban give him a sense of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">honor</i>”, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pride</i>” and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">dignity</i>” but
also a sense of “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">frustration</i>”, “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">low self confidence</i>” and “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">low self esteem</i>”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The documentary analyzes
the problem of the turban stereotypes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">I think that often people judge
things associating them with their previous knowledge. When people see a person
wearing a turban they don’t think he or she is coming from India but more often
they think he or she is coming from a Muslim country. Some of the Sikh interviewed
in the documentary claim that some time English people (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the documentary is set in England</i>) think they are coming from Arab
states because of the brown color of their skin and of their turban. Often people
are not feeling comfortable in front of someone who is wearing a turban, maybe
because in the recent years <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we got many negative
images that associate turban with Taliban or Arab extremists, or because it
represent something different , difficult to accept in our culture. I don’t
have the answer; people have to find their own answers inside their minds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">Speaking about Sikh there
is in important misunderstanding that I’d like to explain. Everybody think that
the religious symbol is the turban, but this is wrong. The religious symbol that
is hidden by the turban are their hairs, they wear the turban to hide their
hairs because they are symbol of</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">holiness in India. According
to their religion hairs in general are considered important, all over their
bodies. Sikh have five religious symbols. You can find more information about
this in the page below if you are interested to get information related to this
religion whose </span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-weight: normal;">precepts
and</span></span><span class="shorttext"><span lang="EN" style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.sikhismguide.org/fiveks.aspx">symbols</a></span>
are still unknown for us.</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The world is changing rapidly,
we get in contact with new cultures, new religious groups and new way of lives almost
every day, according to this is very important to train our minds in order to become
more open and willing to accept these differences without building negatives images
of the unknown world we have in front of us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Silvia Bettiol</span></div>
<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span>Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-67273546000648805762012-11-05T14:17:00.003+01:002012-11-10T19:05:52.770+01:00Converting followers into voters<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In early 2007, Barack Obama was a little-known senator running for president against Democratic nominee and household name, Hilary Clinton. But on November 4, 2008, Obama, was the first African American to win the election against Republican candidate, John McCain, becoming the 44th president of the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We can say that a major success factor for Obama’s victory was how Obama’s campaign used social media and technology as an integral part of its strategy, to raise money and more importantly, to develop a groundswell of empowered volunteers who felt they could make a difference.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 1960, Americans turned on their tv to watch a presidential debate for the first time. They saw Richard Nixon, awkward and sweaty. To his right was John F. Kennedy Jr, calm, tanned, deliberate, standing out in his dark suit. There wasn't much question about who won the first televised debate that night. In an election in which nearly every vote counted, media power shifted public opinion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are now in the era of Twitter. The proof is in Twitter's big role in shaping the coverage and the winners and losers of this month's presidential debates.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sixty percent of social media users responding to a survey in October 2011 said that they expect candidates to have a social media presence. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For almost 40 percent, information found on social media will help determine their voting choices as much as traditional media sources like TV or newspapers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On Twitter:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama">Obama</a></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/whitehouse" target="_blank">The White House</a></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney" target="_blank">Romney</a></span><br />
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-83028071708046567672012-11-04T21:22:00.000+01:002012-11-10T19:06:21.448+01:00Stereotypes and wars<span style="color: white;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In every war the Government utilized stereotypes for
create the consent of public opinion. During the colonial experience the Africans
are seen like wild and uncivilized, a barbaric race and the European like
civilized person. In Italy, during the campaign in Libya and Ethiopia, an
expansionist policy was justified by using stereotypes and by arguing that Italians
are different from other colonizer. The Italians was shown by propaganda, like
more generous, more human, more broadminded and more open-minded than other European.
Genuinely the Italian colonialism, both liberal and fascist, utilized repressive
measures, create one of the most cruel prisons, exploit and tolerate slavery, bomb
and burn villages, effectuate mass deportation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> During the
First World War in France and in other European countries the German soldiers are
seen like evil and this belief have been supported by manifests that show the
barbarities of their acts. These manifests create a large consensus and help to
create in public opinion a distorted image of German soldiers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During the Second World War, On December 7th 1941, the
Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. US citizens feared another attack and war
hysteria seized the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">State representatives put pressure on President
Roosevelt to take action against those of Japanese descent living in the US.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On February 19th 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order
9066. Under the terms of the Order, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent
living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps.
The US justified their action by claiming that there was a danger of those of
Japanese descent spying for the Japanese. However more than two thirds of those
interned were American citizens and half of them were children. None had ever
shown disloyalty to the nation. In some cases family members were separated and
put in different camps. During the entire war only ten people were convicted of
spying for Japan and these were all Caucasian.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Life in the camps was hard. Internees had only been
allowed to bring with then a few possessions. In many cases they had been given
just 48 hours to evacuate their homes. Consequently they were easy prey for
fortune hunters who offered them far less than the market prices for the goods
they could not take with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"It
was really cruel and harsh. To pack and evacuate in forty-eight hours was an
impossibility. Seeing mothers completely bewildered with children crying from
want and peddlers taking advantage and offering prices next to robbery made me
feel like murdering those responsible without the slightest compunction in my
heart</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">." <b>Joseph
Yoshisuke Kurihara speaking of the Terminal Island evacuation</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They were housed in barracks and had to use communal
areas for washing, laundry and eating. It was an emotional time for all. <i>"I remember the soldiers marching us to
the Army tank and I looked at their rifles and I was just terrified because I
could see this long knife at the end . . . I thought I was imagining it as an
adult much later . . . I thought it couldn't have been bayonets because we were
just little kids.</i>" from "<b>Children of the Camps</b>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Following WWII it was no easy task for Japanese
American to find their spot back in society. Many Americans still harbored
inner sentiment of the Japanese remembering Pearl Harbor and the fear of
Japanese spies. Despite this, by the 1960’s Japanese Americans had gained many
Americans respect with their economic prosperity. This is when the common
stereotype of the Japanese businessman began to take hold. Japanese Americans
were seen as, "successful citizens" and good assimilators into white
American society. But as time transpired the stereotype took the form of the
quiet, efficient, high-powered Japanese corporate business worker. However, as
recently as 1994 a San Francisco radio station had to fire a local DJ for
racist anti-Asian American remarks. Such actions in areas highly populated by
Asian Americans shows that there is still ground to be gained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-50168497642145991982012-11-03T11:34:00.002+01:002012-11-10T19:06:41.794+01:00Gender stereotypes in mass media<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gender
roles: question of natural differences or cultural constructs?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mass
Media both reflect and shape society: which images of women and men
TV, advertising, press bring out? How gender stereotypes influence
people's life?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Stereotypes
create fixed and reductive images of a social group. These images
usually represents women:</span></div>
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<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">as
domestic providers or sexual objects</span></div>
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<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">with
a beautiful and young body, often very thin</span></div>
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<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">holding
traditional female roles, such as mother and wife</span></div>
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<li><div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">practicing
jobs as subordinates</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Stereotypes
reproduced by Mass Media have real consequences. They reinforce a
patriarchal culture deep-rooted in many countries and they stand in
the way of equal opportunities. </span>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
Italy, for examples, data show how stereotypes can shape a society:
the percentage of unemployed women are greater then the percentage of
unemployed men, women are less paid then men with the same job, women
are a “phantom-presence” in politics and they difficultly hold a
position of responsibility at work. Instead women are supposed to do
housework, raise children and take care of the oldest members of the
family, much more than their partners. </span>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
Word Economic Forum has measured the <a href="http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GGGR12/MainChapter_GGGR12.pdf" target="_blank">gender gap</a> in 135 countries
considering economic participation and opportunity, educational
attainment, health and survival, political empowerment. Italy is
collocated on the 80</span>th<span lang="en-US">
position, after countries of the third word, as Vietnam, Kenya and
Uruguay.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="color: white;">We have to think how stereotypes influence all spheres of
our life, conditioning our choices. Women, are we really free? </span></span>
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-68986794955599021972012-10-30T20:12:00.000+01:002012-11-10T19:06:56.194+01:00Islam & stereotypes<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;">Today I
don’t want to comment any article or speech, I want just to talk a little beat
about Islam and the single story people have about it. A big part of the
western world think about Islam as a religion made by <i>shariah</i>, <i>burqua</i> or </span><span class="hps" style="text-align: justify;">discrimination against women. But, what I always ask myself is: do
this people have ever read the Koran? What do they know about this religion and
the billions of people who believe in it? Well, I think they don’t know very
much about it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="hps">When we speak about Islam we have to consider that this is not a
monolithic reality but it is marked by deep differences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>They are: national; cultural, in fact the Sub-Saharan Islam is different
from the Islam we find in India or in the countries</span><span class="shorttext"> </span><span class="hps">of the Middle East; there are
diversities among the language the Muslims use, not all of them speak Arabic
that is the official language of the religion, in Iran they speak Persian, in
Turkey they speak Turkish and in India they don’t have Arabic as official
language. There are also differences between the Sunni, the </span><span class="shorttext">Shiites</span><span class="hps"> and the other religious groups.</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps" style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An expert in religious issues made a
reflection that made me think very much about the argument I am talking about.
She said: “an expert in canon Low can write about the Catholic Church, a
professor of Jewish law can write about Hebraism and so one, but everybody can
write about Islam!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="hps">If we start to think where and when we heard
all the opinions about this religion we will find this true. Many programs say
fail things, we hear fragmented news that confuse us, sometimes we don’t know
who is giving this new we just </span><span class="catgram"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">acknowledge them.</span></span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span class="hps">One day I talked to a Norwegian family and when we discussed about
Muslims they told me that all of them were like <i>Taliban</i>, were mistreating their
wife and their daughters, they had their single story about Islam and I wasn’t
able to make them change their point of view. </span><span class="hps"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="hps" style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This, like many others, is a clear example
of how we use stereotypes to understand the world. But when we use them, we do
it because we don’t really know the argument we are hearing or talking about
with other people, and we use our previous knowledge to get explanations of the
phenomenon to our interlocutors or to ourselves. </span></div>
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Pid English 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/12412711671185377289noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4346411263071661297.post-63611329858890809492012-10-30T12:56:00.002+01:002012-11-10T19:07:06.051+01:00How the Nixon-Kennedy debate changed the world<div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On
26 September 1960, 70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator
John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon in the
first-ever televised presidential debate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For
Kennedy, TV was the principal medium of communication and persuasion.
The election in 1960 was a TV contest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
Great Debates marked television's grand entrance into presidential
politics. They afforded the first real opportunity for voters to see
their candidates in competition</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: white;">But
television also allowed viewers to assess the "looks" of
the candidates, to determine which one looked more honest, appeared
more confident, and came across as more presidential.</span></span><br />
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Berton Sara</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2021078,00.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: white; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Article on Nixon-Kennedy debate in the Time</span></a><br />
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