PPT-Stereotypes of Aboriginal people in Media

Common portrayals misrepresentation and racism COMMON PORTRAYALS in TV FILMS NOVELS COMICS etc Primitive Violent Deceptive Passive Childlike obedience Rarely about Canadian aboriginal people too. A stereotype is defined as a social perception of an individual in terms of membership or physical attributes. It is a . generalisation. that is made about a group and then attributed to members of that group. . By: Michael Frye . Rock Painting. Australian Indigenous art is the oldest unbroken tradition of art in the world. The oldest firmly dated rock art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the . Culture . Clash!. The Aborigines had no idea what to make of the white people. - White people were not part of their ancient stories. - Maybe they were devils or stupid ghosts of their ancestors who could not speak Aboriginal languages. By . Charlotte & Luke. Aboriginal hunting. &. Gathering. Men killed larger animals using weapons.. Women collected smaller animals, plants and insects.. Hunting. Boomerangs were used to hunt animals. What does the data tell us?. How does this impact on VALS’ future directions?. Victoria’s Aboriginal population is young and growing fast…. Victoria’s recorded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population was 37,988 people out of a total Victorian population of 5,354,042. This equates to 0.7% of the population. . • They are standardized: they exist in the minds of a large number of people. There cannot be a stereotype held by one person; it must be shared by many to be a stereotype.. • The stereotype has a “special meaning”: it usually carries with it enormous judgmental and emotional weight.. WHAT IS A STEREOTYPE?. A fixed, commonly held notion or image of a person or group, based on an oversimplification of some observed or imagined trait of behavior or appearance.. EXPRESSION OF STEREOTYPE. Jason Rix. 10-18-11. COM 3100WI. Introduction. Television and the communication of Stereotypes. Where it was once the norm for messages to be communicated via one-on-one interaction between two people, modern technology – television in particular –changed the manner in which people receive their messages (Gerbner, 1998).. Lesson 1. ✓. D. efine and use the term ‘gender stereotype’ correctly.. ✓. L. ist stereotypes for girls and for boys.. ✓. P. lay ‘guess the occupation game’. . In today’s lesson we are . ATTEMPTS AT ASSIMILATION . Legislated Colonization. . These social control aspects of the Indian Act placed Indians in the position of a colonized people. As Harold Cardinal asserted "Instead of implementing the treaties and offering much needed protection to Indian rights the Indian Act subjugated to colonial rule the very people whose rights if was supposed to protect". . Spirituality: it’s connection with aboriginal palliative care & palliative care volunteering. Defining spirituality. To define spirituality is a difficult task. There are many definitions available to us, but there is no ‘one size fits all’ approach to an individuals unique understanding or interpretation. . . My map. What life was like for . Wurundjeri/Kulin . nation people before the European settlers arrived . Life for wurundjeri/Kulin people was very different before the European settlers arrived.. VCAA webinar. Julie Reid and Fay Stewart-Muir. Paralysis of Integrity. Where you want to do something because it is the right thing to do, but you don’t do it because you fear that you . might cause . Describe the perfect man…. Describe the perfect woman…. People face many standards that can be difficult to achieve. In small groups, take a picture off the wall and describe the main person in the picture:.