Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Tokenism
So we have been discussing tokenism in class, and the big question is "Is tokenism real, and if so is it a problem." First off believe that tokenism is realm, but it is not as big of a problem as it should be. I think that it is not as big of a problem because as kids we watched T.V. that had a large amount of tokenism. As a child you do did not watch T.V. critically at all. I think as a child you just absentmindedly absorbed what you watched. And in turn I think that this absentminded absorption, led to a distortion that tokenism is OK. Now that I look at T.V. more critically, I see that this tokenism is not OK and needs to be changed.
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I think most of the class agrees with you and your point about not watching critically as a child is an important one. But you need to extend this further: if tokenism needs to be changed, then HOW can that happen? Gov't regulation? Boycotts? These are the difficult questions that must be explored.
It's interesting how we take in tv tokenism sub-consciously. For years we have watched the shows and have failed to notice the concise examples of racism in the programs.
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