Black People and African American Actors Essay

Stereotyping is the automatic/ exaggerated mental pictures that lot hold closely a particular racial group without taking individual differences into consideration. Examples of stereotyping would be the main characters of the movie Rio2, bejewel and Blue being voiced by white actors whilst their wild relatives are voiced by non-white actors implying sophistication as well as in the movie Despicable Me 2 where El Macho and his boy are given a Spanish image portraying a smooth talker and an resistless lover that is often stereotypes or so Spanish people. 87 People seem oblivious to the racial content due(p) to various distractions like visual stimuli such as 3D effects and the contrasting use of color, dense effects such as surround sound and the voices of the character and lastly the plot of the story.Most people are over stimulated by these distractions that they rarely notice the stereotyping. Another factor would be that parents devolve the responsibility to screen the mov ies that their children are watching. In some instances the stereotyping may be instilled in some parents from parturition resulting in children seeing stereotyping as normal behavior. 96 Subtle racial prejudices towards Hispanic and Black people in Rio2 were the implication that wild Amazonian Macaws voiced by non- white actors are uncivilized.Songs sung by these Macaws are earlier voiced by African American actors accompanied by rhythmic beats and movements with catchy phrases in the first place found in native song and dance. Roberto (wild Macaw) is voiced by the singer Bruno Mars who is from a premix of Jewish and Hawaiian decent implying (help with that word). Pedro and Nico dickens rapping, gangster, music loving birds are voiced by two equally successful and famous rappers Will.I.Am and Jamie Foxx 99 From this passage I can conclude that even though warnings about stereotyping may be placed before animation movies, many parents would still allow their children to watch i t. 31