Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Stereotypical images in Media


I found this image on a CNN Photos post under CNN World. In a collection of photos about crime and poverty in South Africa, this one stuck out to me the most. In one image they managed to display residents of this part of South Africa as drug users, poor, African-American, and willingly endangering the life of a children. Themes like crime in South Africa are all too common and well know, and I feel that an image like this only reinforced a lot of stereotypes people have about that region of the world.

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