CHICANO 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Hypersexuality, Spoken Word
10 Nov 2016
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Take-home final: december 1st: review session and prompt released. Popular culture is a powerful institution and includes: music music videos popular dance social media. Media and social media are two separate categories, in a way. Tv, film, and newspapers form our understanding of the world and create our culture. Culture practices: habits well-known to a particular group of peple subcultures alternative cultures. Creation of stereotypes are used by the general population to influence and make decisions about the individuals of a group that is seen to be homogenous. Utilizing stereotypes created by particular people to decide how to others is extremely dangerous. News, which is supposed to be factual and unbiased, relies heavily on stereotypes. When you are isolated and hear the same things over and over and over again without any contact, then that is the way that you come to see the world. Stereotypes are created by a certain group of people.
