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Race and Gender in 2020 America

Lack of diversity in today’s media and how this affects how we see the world

In American history, 2020 is thought to be the year with the largest gender gap and racial discrimination problems. In 2020, for example, an unarmed black man died of police brutality, which led to massive demonstrations following the circulation of the video through the media worldwide. The absence of diversity is also present in the media today, and this often influences people's worldview (Lee, Chioun, Park, and Boylan 2020). Diversity involves a wide range of people with different socioeconomic, racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The media is a channel of communication through which people spread news, promotional messages or education. A lack of diversity of news in newsrooms or stereotyping can be seen in the media.

Everyone normally digests news regardless of race, age and sex. Although the audience receiving news in the media is various, white men in America control people or journalists who provide the content. In addition, ethnic distortions in news headlines are visible in the media. This suggests that the pictorial pictures used to cover a white person are different from those of a black person; photos for a black person who committed a crime are other than those used if a white person is committing the same crime. Media should also aspire to improve in the honoring of all people's humanity.

In the media, diversity is usually important because it affects the range of stories told as well as the quality of news reporting. As a result, the problems caused by a lack of diversity in the media affect all forms of diversity, including gender, racial, and ethnic diversity. It is ethical to state that gender and racial bias in the media has numerous consequences (Loecherbach et al., 2020). Individuals in American society place a high level of trust in the media to provide them with the information they need to make informed and accurate decisions. As a result, in the absence of diversity, the media may provide information that leads people to make bad decisions.

The media is typically responsible for shaping people's self-images as well as societal norms. For example, when the media portrays black people as criminals, society tends to believe that this is true. As a result, the media should ensure that people of different genders or races are treated equally and that they are not stereotyped as having certain characteristics. It is true that what people hear or see on a daily basis influences their body image, mental health, and self-confidence. People digest media in different ways, and when media messages account for these differences, the audience is more likely to connect with media channels. Furthermore, when the media employs people from diverse backgrounds, all Americans can become involved in the news.

As a result, the lack of diversity in media is a hot topic that needs to be addressed, and this issue can only be addressed when individual differences are represented and viewed as the norm in media. Starting with what we listen to or watch, media has the ability to influence all individuals, regardless of age. As a result, when children observe gender or racial bias in the media, they may adopt such bias in the future. Instead of portraying racial and gender bias in media, it should work to increase media diversity. Having diversity in media can have a variety of benefits, which is why there is a need for more diversity in media.

It is true that a lack of diversity influences how people perceive the world. America is a very diverse country, and when a specific minority group is not represented in the media as it is, individuals' views will be distorted. Therefore, media should show minorities in the real way (Niu et al., 2020). The media is typically designed to tell people what to do. The media can influence how people perceive the world by showing films that depict society. As a result, people come to believe that the world is as it is depicted in movies.

Reference

Lee, Chioun, Soojin Park, and Jennifer M. Boylan. "Cardiovascular Health at the Intersection of Race and Gender: Identifying Life-Course Processes to Reduce Health Disparities." The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (2020).

Loecherbach, Felicia, et al. "The unified framework of media diversity: A systematic literature review." Digital Journalism 8.5 (2020): 605-642.

Niu, Bonnie T., et al. "Trends in gender and racial profiles of US academic radiology faculty." Journal of the American College of Radiology 17.10 (2020): 1337-1343.