Media Racist Discourse

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Do the media play a major role in constructing racist discourse?

With the development and change of the trend of the times, more and more different groups have already pay attention to the mass media,and the media also has become objective and popular.it is can not only be used by government, but also can be used by the populations. Therefore, it is indicated that media assuredly can influence people’s thought and common life.

What is media?

Currently, the technology and economy have played a vital part in social and daily life. Moreover , media has became an important component as well, it plays an important role on the change and developing of the society . Media can would like to use some specific ways to show to us with definition about
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Traditional media mainly use a single way to provide information,it is non-objective. However, the internet is the most significant part in emerging media. It has multiple ways to share information, also can accept the public opinions, it is more objective. The emerging media is developing rapidly in the past …show more content…
This phenomenon occurs in many countries such as Australia, America and European countries. Confronting with multi-ethnic problem, some government have implemented some policies to solve it. But it does not work quite well, this problem still exist right now. Racial conflict has became increasingly severe since 1958, British Notting Hill was the fist post-war about race riots. After the the racist conflict intensified, according to the British Council on the race, in 1975 the country’s ethnic attacks were 2690, and there is an upward trend years by years, in 1979 reached a total of more than 3827. As a result, these unrest are used by some racist who spread these information on media. For example, The Times published a Wife of British Prime Minister opinion on harassment. She blamed all non-white race families. But these news deteriorated racism which was caused by conflict. About the race riots, the media are showing a on-side point of view, “the riots are young black city crime, it is a fundamental attack on the Democratic order...therefore, it is necessary to further strengthen the moderate response to these violent crimes, and to support the police to suppress the riots. So other medias may follow these news, it causes more and more serious and negative problems of