Mass Media Essay

Today we live in a society where mass media is considered to be the most important aspect of our daily life. However, as much as mass media plays an important role in our society, it also causes some serious problems within our society, it also seem to blind people from the truth and instead make people confuse and bring misunderstanding in the mind of people. Today mass media is everywhere; it is in form of Radio, television, magazines, the internet, advertisements, and newspapers and more recent we even see it in Facebook and Twitter which seems to take over the world now.

With the rise of Mass media, racism seems to rise as well; people now use the internet to mask themselves behind the screen so they can express their feelings or thoughts about someone’s culture, what they are wearing, eating and even race. People today and as it has also been seems to have a problem about the way someone looks like whether you are black, white, Asian, Caucasian or whatever race you want to distinguish yourself as, racism will somehow hunt you.

Racism in not something that just started recently, for hundreds and thousands of years the white man came not only in Africa but all over the world to try to concur and own other race by making them work as slaves, because they thought there race was far more superior.

Today in American TV, “Mass media have played and will continue to play a crucial role in the way white Americans perceive African-Americans” (Stephen Balkaran) because the media seem to focus “on crime, drug use, gang violence, and other forms of anti-social behaviour among African-Americans”. As a result the media as manage to change the viewer’s perspective of African-Americans. Not only in America but around the world, America b...

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...owever, it’s your choice, you can just try to suck it up and deal with the fact that you have to share this planet with people that you dislike, or you can try to express yourself verbally to a black guy and I you $100 that somehow at the end of the day you’ll end up on a hospital bed, Why? Well simply because no one likes to be discriminated against. The point I am trying to make is that, Whatever God you believe in We come from the same one, we all bleed the same colour of blood, we all have the same organs, what makes us different from one another is our complexion, we can also try to learn to live together as one species or we can just seat and watch history repeat itself.

One of my favourite quotes from the movie 2012 is “The moment we stop fighting for each other, that’s the moment we lose our humanity”. We all have different ways of understanding this quote.