103 Research Project

Well im still a little undecisive on what exactly it is I want to do for the project. As for the presentation though, I would like to speak to the class in a way other than reading a piece of paper like if I was filibustering in congress so im leaning towards writing a paper and doing powerpoint to go along with it. The topic is still too broad in my mind though I know I want to do something on the Topic of race but im not sure where im going with it. At the same time I dont want to kill the topic since im already doing race for the other class. So here is a sketch of my possible topics and ideas

Race in the News Media

• the ethnic background of news anchors
• the ratio of white to minority newscasters

Race in Movies

• the portrayl of Hispanics in movies
• the portrayl of Asians, Blacks, and other minority groups
• the stereotype for each of these
• language used to describe a minority or even a white person in these films and how it affects our outlook conciously or unconciously

Another way im thinking about it is.. mabye in a more modern way.. if you will...

Mabye asking the Question why is it that everything must be politically correct these days. Why must a show always have some kind of minority group represented, why cant it just be what it is... something a classmate brought up to my attention (i forgot exactly who I think it was Saquaya) but they said that in the show "Boy meets world" there was not a black person until they introduced a black girlfriend to one of the charecters. Now was this later adding of this charecter to be politcally correct.. personally i never really payed attention that the show was all white.. i watched it for what it was.. entertaining and funny. Even in my experiences from the Army.. during Ceronmonies and important events they kind of all ways wanted to be politcally correct and would make sure to include a minority group in the mix just about everytime... I know this because out of a company of 80+ ppl their were only like 5 spanish ppl yet the Guide-arm bearer was none other than yours truley, the person before me was a mix and looked spanish and the person i passed the torched to was Black. The other companies followed the same kind of formula because if you look at us during ceramonies of the batallion or brigade just by the Guide-arm bearers you would assume that their were alot more minorities than their actually were.. so mabye we are doing this politically correct thing a little too much.

I dont know Im even thinking about the portrayl of Food for certain groups.. lol

One thing im considering is why is it that Taco bell is marketed so heavily as "authentic mexican food" lol its not in anyway mexican....