Although there has been great strides within the United States in progressing the rights of LGBTQ persons, various tropes within the media still exist today. This isn’t to generalize the idea that “tropes” as a concept are always bad, but however they can become harmful when generalizing a group of people. I’ve compiled three different…
As a successful example of immigrating to the United States in the last century, while Asians immersed in the collective sense of honor of being able to create a good life in a foreign country, they were also experienced bursting backlash by being accused of the prototype of a racial idealogy, the “Yellow Peril.” Here…
The trope is The Noble Savage. In the 3 examples that follow the baseline for the Noble Savage stereotype shown below, the noble savage stereotype represents the American Indian who is lives in harmony with the natural world. He is primitive and untouched by the world of the civilized human. More often than not, Noble…