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The Visible minorities in televisual media in North America.
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THE VISIBLE MINORITIES IN TELEVISUAL MEDIA IN NORTH AMERICA INTRODUCTION: Today we are going to discuss race, class and gender in tele-visual media. "When asked, in a 2002 Poll, whether the government should preserve and enhance multiculturalism, 82 percent of Canadians said yes. So why, asks Lionel Lamb, from Carleton University's school of Journalism, "are millions of minorities that are so visible on our streets and shopping malls, our offices and health care centers, so invisible on our television screens?" "Seventy per cent of dramas, sitcoms and series that Canadians watch are produced in the U.S. Images of minorities are lacking on those screens and they're lacking on Canadian screens as well" (www.media-awareness.ca, Link Diversity and Canadian Broadcasting Policy) Race being by definition: Any of the group into which human can be divided according to their physical characteristics such as color of skin, culture, history and language. Class being by definition: A group of people at...
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