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Stereotypes are a schema (or structures of definition) for people we perceive as belonging to a social group, (15). We can suppress these judgments, and our suppression is usually correlated to our own prejudice. We also attribute stereotypes based on “internal” or “external” causes within “ingroups” and “outgroups”. In media the way we are fed a story effects our perception and stereotypes. The more we are fed stereotypes, which are usually negative, the more we actually believe them and use them.

wasn't positive on how to do this so here's the link to youtube.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y142iq0uGCc&feature=related

This whole series to me seems pointless. Fox has taken a documentary on how radical Muslims would like to kill Americans and chosen to highlight it. The film builds our stereotypes, and it tells us to second guess ourselves when we think try to think positively about the situation. To be honest I still don’t believe that the radicals are insane ravenous murderers. This film builds that stereotype. It does so whether the Muslim is radical or not because there is next to no discussion on how most Muslims (especially in the U.S.) are not radicals. Something like this makes people more likely to be prejudice towards foreigners in their area. I can only imagine what a series like this would have looked like during WWII centered on the Japanese.