The main idea or thesis for this artists work is to make people aware of some of the things that can be offensive to people. These different images irriherate different stereotypes that different religions and ethnicities have. The pictures say a thousand words and I think they do a good job of making people aware of how using the name from a certain group of people for a sports team can be offensive.
I will look at two of these images in particular. The first one I looked at was the Spanish. The logo for the Spanish has a sumbraro with a thin poinited mustage and and pointed go-tee. This image portrays how all Spanish must wear sumbraros (which is not true) and also the fact that all spanish people have dirty mustaches(which is not ture. Spanish people or Mexicans are know for being "dirty" and this images rehirerates that stereotype of Mexicans. The second logo which stuck out to me was the German logo. First and foremost the logo looks like the most famous German person, Adolph Hitler. Hitler had a really strong comb over and a small mustach. I just thought it was werid how the logo portrays every person of German backgound must look exactly like Hitler. When in fact most German do not look like Hitler at all. Also you can not miss the Nazi sign below his chin. That rehirterates the steroetype that all Germans are Nazi's, which is not true either.
I am a huge sports fan and love the Indians. Throughout my whole life I never once thought that the Indians logo must be offensive to Indians. The Indians logo has huge eyes, nose, and mouth which is a stereotype of Indians. I really do feel bad for people of Indian decent because they must be extreamly mad about the way the logo portrays their looks. I will never look at the logo the same way ever again.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Somberville
The thesis of this chapter was to show how prejudism of sexuality and race compare and ocntrast to each other. Somberville explains how both groups are looked at very similiarly and how they over lap each other. These two groups in Americ are looked at as the othee and different groups. Homosexuality and blacks are the two groups of people in America that aer looked down upon. Somberville explains how one came from another and how they both are viewed in America.
Somberville talks about how homosexuality began being deplicted in Germany and other European counrties before Americans started to view the group of people. He says that gayness started to be viewed as a disease instead of being a choice made by a person. Thats how homosexuality was looked at as a medical illness instead of anything else. People believed that people who are gay were born with disease and they can not do anything to change their sexual preference. Havelock Ellis wrote books and sexuality and how homosexuality is a crime. Ellis was the first author to write about the controversial subject. Ellis's book was banned in Germany so he published it in the United States. The book was know to be for scientific experts but was also read by others who were trying to find their representation. In America it is hard for a person to be a homosexual or to be black. With some many different forms of racism towards both groups it puts the between a rock and a hard place. Unlike blacks though, homosexuals can decide whether to come out of the closet or not. Someone who is gay had the choice of whether to tell people or not, becasue if they do come out and tell people close to them they run the risk of losing close friends and family. As wrong as it is, but it is the truth, in America it is a crime to be gay. People are treated differently everyday because of their sexuality. This is a counrty of freedoms and you have the freedom to choose what sex you want to be married to. With that being said this counrties main stream culture, like it or not, looks at gayness as a disease. I personally have nothing against gays but I can not say that for the rest of Americans.
Two Discussion Questions
1.) What the similarities and differences between being gay and being black?
2.) What group of people has is more scrutinized in America?
I thought this chapter was one of the most hard readings I have ever done. It was extreamly hard for me to get certain concepts that Somberville discusses. Somberville seems like a very intellegent person with great ideas that need to be thought of cridically to draw the correct meanings from the reading. This was not one on my most favorite readings because it was dry and long.
Somberville talks about how homosexuality began being deplicted in Germany and other European counrties before Americans started to view the group of people. He says that gayness started to be viewed as a disease instead of being a choice made by a person. Thats how homosexuality was looked at as a medical illness instead of anything else. People believed that people who are gay were born with disease and they can not do anything to change their sexual preference. Havelock Ellis wrote books and sexuality and how homosexuality is a crime. Ellis was the first author to write about the controversial subject. Ellis's book was banned in Germany so he published it in the United States. The book was know to be for scientific experts but was also read by others who were trying to find their representation. In America it is hard for a person to be a homosexual or to be black. With some many different forms of racism towards both groups it puts the between a rock and a hard place. Unlike blacks though, homosexuals can decide whether to come out of the closet or not. Someone who is gay had the choice of whether to tell people or not, becasue if they do come out and tell people close to them they run the risk of losing close friends and family. As wrong as it is, but it is the truth, in America it is a crime to be gay. People are treated differently everyday because of their sexuality. This is a counrty of freedoms and you have the freedom to choose what sex you want to be married to. With that being said this counrties main stream culture, like it or not, looks at gayness as a disease. I personally have nothing against gays but I can not say that for the rest of Americans.
Two Discussion Questions
1.) What the similarities and differences between being gay and being black?
2.) What group of people has is more scrutinized in America?
I thought this chapter was one of the most hard readings I have ever done. It was extreamly hard for me to get certain concepts that Somberville discusses. Somberville seems like a very intellegent person with great ideas that need to be thought of cridically to draw the correct meanings from the reading. This was not one on my most favorite readings because it was dry and long.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Video Screening on Japanese Immagration
The thesis or main point from this video is show how much of a hard time it was for Japanese to come to America and work. While everyone in the world wanted to come to America for better fincial situations, the immigrants who came did not have it easy off. Immigrants, in this case Japanese, were put to hard labor forced to live in horrible housing and were treated as slaves in some cases.
The video gives great details to show the hardships the Japanese faced while coming to America, and how they over came those hardships. When immigrants were brought over for labor they were forced to work in fields. They were also forced to live in living camps with horrible housing and minimum privacy. Japnese put a strong emphasis on education and put together a schooling system fro children in the camps. Although field work was greuling, people wanted to work in the fields to get out of the inclosed fenced in camp. Workers were put into small work groups, and every different work group had a watcher. That shows you how bad the housing situation was because people would rather do hard labor than stay in the camps. At times there was fifty people living in one shed. Times were hard and Japnese over came those problems and turned out alright. These camps were posted in Hawaii which was where most of the immigrants arrived.
Two Discussion Questions
1.) Were familes split up or did they live together?
2.) Do you think that you could have ever survived these camps? I think it would have been extreamly hard to wake up in those conditions everyday. If I was a younger child it would have been easier because you would have accepted the situation for what it was and never thought anything of it.
This video screening gave me a better perspective on how immigrants were treated throughout this period. I did not get the pictures from the reading, but it helped me to picture what the camps looked like and how people lived while be confined.
The video gives great details to show the hardships the Japanese faced while coming to America, and how they over came those hardships. When immigrants were brought over for labor they were forced to work in fields. They were also forced to live in living camps with horrible housing and minimum privacy. Japnese put a strong emphasis on education and put together a schooling system fro children in the camps. Although field work was greuling, people wanted to work in the fields to get out of the inclosed fenced in camp. Workers were put into small work groups, and every different work group had a watcher. That shows you how bad the housing situation was because people would rather do hard labor than stay in the camps. At times there was fifty people living in one shed. Times were hard and Japnese over came those problems and turned out alright. These camps were posted in Hawaii which was where most of the immigrants arrived.
Two Discussion Questions
1.) Were familes split up or did they live together?
2.) Do you think that you could have ever survived these camps? I think it would have been extreamly hard to wake up in those conditions everyday. If I was a younger child it would have been easier because you would have accepted the situation for what it was and never thought anything of it.
This video screening gave me a better perspective on how immigrants were treated throughout this period. I did not get the pictures from the reading, but it helped me to picture what the camps looked like and how people lived while be confined.
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