In an article from USA Today magazine, it illustrated that if you have watched, listened to, and read media all your life, you probably have filed these images into your thinking process. African-Americans are mostly rap stars, professional athletes, drug addicts, welfare mothers, criminals and/or murderers, Latinos are illegal aliens, ignorant
immigrants who take, but give little back to the country and can't even speak the
language, or drug-crazed thugs who have no respect for law or order, Asian-Americans are either weak, model citizens or difficult to understand, manipulative, or uncaring invaders of business, especially in the United States, Native Americans are illiterate, drunken. If you are like most middle-class Americans, most of what you know about members of other races or religions comes from what you read in the paper, hear on radio, or see on television. It is easy to see that racial and ethnic stereotypes still dominate much of reporting today.
In today's......
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