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I have to make an advocating speech on something for class and I'd like to do it on negative cultural stereotyping, international prejudice, ect...

I am not finding much scholarly stuff online about the negative effects of ethnic/international prejudice. If you guys know somethign I could reference that would be awesome.

Some ideas I had were on how nonamericans are portrayed in films (how the hell is Tom cruise the last samurai?)

Does anyone have a good site I could reference, or do you have a good story to tell about your personal experiences? How many foreigners have you met (for people in another country I'm meaning foreigners to your land, like how rare is it you meet someone from europe or the americas or africa or asia, ect?)

Perhaps you have been discriminated upon, or seen it happen because of an accent or some cultural practice you have. Share these stories if you wish, but realize the diversity of this guild.

I am just asking for some sources I can use for the speech, but feel free to just discuss (NO FIGHTING) somethings that you wish would change globally to get rid or tone down discrimination due to where you live in the world.

Yes I seem to make long a** posts crying

not sure if this relates...

being from the south and having a southern accent, we are looked down upon most of the time. because of the accent or area we come from, most people think we have no knowledge, we practice incest, are as bad as purvis in zomg, and are all hillbillies and rednecks. one thing relating to this is "children of appalachia" which was shown earlier this year on abc by diane sawyer. she is also a kentuckian, but she comes from louisville, in the north and not from the southeastern part of the state. then again, the whole state has been used for jokes like in "clueless" in the very end, cher makes a comment relating to incest about marriage. and also in "3 weeks notice" they have if i recall, a family in an rv from this state too. :/ also, the history channel did a special about appalachia and its people which is helpful to tell why "redneck," etc. and really, i don't think the scots, irish that settled here would be happy their heritage is being viewed as jokes to the rest of the country.

anyway, the sterotyping is wrong even from our own nation. crazy assumptions are made and really they need to be ridden.

if you want to point out more about people of different skin color, way back when in hollywood, they would do the blackface, with a white actor looking like a black person doing a song and dance. this would be offensive. oh! chinese offensiveness might be found in "breakfast at tiffany's" where one of the guys in the building (owner?) is asian looking with slit eyes.

would kayne west's remarks on mtv to taylor swift be maybe a racist thing too? :/


(sorry. lots of things popping up in my mind...)

well, where i am now... i do not run into any other types of people from europe, except if mexicans count. sweatdrop from college though, i shared a bathroom with a korean girl and it was weird how to her personal space bubbles do not exist. at the same time, she and others of her background would hang out with each other so it makes sense they all hang out in a clique, though it seemed weird to me. oh and my freshman year of college, i had a scottish roommate. it took a long time adjusting and understanding her accent because it was really thick. her dad even called a few times and i was so embarrassed on not understanding some he said. he talked fast and the slurring of some words... i also can't understanding indian accents. sweatdrop

with the scottish girl, she seemed fine hanging out with a lot of other people from different countries but for some reason she hated me. can't remember the reason why, but i thought i was okay to live with. :/

oh and one time i met a canadian and i think it's cool meeting canadians since i have some in my blood, even if its 25%. anyway, that guy was a snobby jerk. it is fine to be proud of what you are, but being prejudice because you aren't fully what they are is not nice.

well, kayne west at the video music awards. taylor swift won the award for female music video and during her acceptance speech, west comes in and stops here and announces that beyonce had the best video. taylor swift was in shock and couldn't even finish what she was saying. later in the show beyonce apologized and also i think let taylor say a few things. and anyway beyonce won video of the year or something like that.

kayne was putting down a country singer and trying to hype r&b. (white vs. black) course, all it did was make kayne look like an idiot.

(think that's how it went... footage should be on youtube of it all.)

(wiggles)

this is a hard thingy to research @_@