Phạm Thị Lệ Chinh_10E7_Entry 3

Entry 3

Identifying bias

Item 1:

 

Source:http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonview.

  - Scapegoating.

  - Analysis: We can see that there are many causes leading to hurricane Isaac so it is a fault of the whole society. However, this picture considers that hurricane Isaac is all Obama’s fault. It means that Obama has to be responsible for these things.  

Item 2:  If we are walking through a park late at night and encounter three senior citizens wearing fur coats and walking with canes, we can feel insecure. However, we may not feel as threatened as if we were met by three high school-aged boys wearing leather jackets.

  - Stereotype.

  - Analysis: Stereotype is a generalization about a person or group of persons. We have made a generalization in this case. These generalizations can come from our experiences in the real life. When we don’t have full of accurate information about three senior citizens and their action; moreover, they are taking canes so we can feel insecure and threatened because in our thought, we can have bad intention to us.

     Source:remember.org/guide/History.root.stereotypes.html.

  

Item 3

-        Discrimination.

-        Analysis: This company only employ the young because they believes that the young people has sustainable development in order to work for. Therefore, the elder people can be unsuitable. It is age discrimination.

 Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/RankImages.aspx?topicid=66367