Weird Perceptions
Jun. 5th, 2010 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Just had a stange epiphany about the nature of perception and the ways in which we portray what we see to others and they will then interpret it as caricature.
For instance: Urkel. Jaleel White's portrayal of the Steve Urkel character was an attempt by ABC to get across the perception that the of the majority of African Americans had of "Nerds." Steve Urkel is then twice-filtered, before being put on screen to be absorbed by the media masses.
Odd little hall of mirrors, there...
In more important news, Arizona continues to make us hate it: "Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White." Via![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
greygirlbeast.
For instance: Urkel. Jaleel White's portrayal of the Steve Urkel character was an attempt by ABC to get across the perception that the of the majority of African Americans had of "Nerds." Steve Urkel is then twice-filtered, before being put on screen to be absorbed by the media masses.
Odd little hall of mirrors, there...
In more important news, Arizona continues to make us hate it: "Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White." Via
greygirlbeast.
