Media Bias And Stereotypes A Long Way Of Justify The Truth

Media Bias and Stereotypes: a long way to justify the truth In the twenty-first century, China accomplishes great achievements in its economy, technology and diplomacy. As it becomes a country that has the fastest increasing rate in economy, masters spacecraft-building technics, and actively participates in International meetings and competitions, it draws the foreign media’s attention on exploring the country itself and presenting how its society and people are to their people who may not know much about those. However, although foreign media reports more frequently about China, many information they give out are one-sided and biased; their inabilities to portray a fair image of this country’s society and its people often lead to stereotyping by foreigners and tensions between them and Chinese people living across the world. These bias should be corrected and eliminated from media’s report. Media fails to present a around picture of things happen in China and lacks necessary clarifications in their reports often cause stereotyping Chinese people and society by foreigners. In Gene Luen Yang’s Comic book American Born Chinese, the character Chin-Kee, who dresses like a government officer in ancient China and can’t differ â€Å"l† and â€Å"r† when he speaks English, ridicules how foreigners often stereotype Chinese and think that all Chinese dress like characters in tradition costumes and speak bad English. The reason why they do so is because is that Chinese are often depicted thatShow MoreRelatedInfluence Of Cognitive Biases On Decisions1142 Words   |  5 PagesThe influence of cognitive biases on decisions Society once had a conjecture that only discriminatory people used stereotypes, however, studies in unconscious bias now reveal that we all are guilty of using stereotypes, all the time, without knowing it. Finally, the antagonist of equality has been found, and it is us. 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