Working with Cultural Differences | Assignment

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Student’s Last Name2IntroductionThis paper intends to discuss how cultural diversity is manifested in the methods used by the media in passing information to the Australians. Most people perceive the world as it is revealed to them by their entrusted media platforms. The television is the main stream used by most people in the digital world to get information and also for entertainment purposes. This paper also highlights on how cultural diversity can be dealt with to bring people closer together and how commercial television has handled this issue. Also discussed are reasons why dealing with the issue of cultural differences has enabled more people to be heard in the non-commercial channels. In addition to ways by which the media outlets can help come up with plans to enhanceworking in the face of cultural diversity.Representation of Cultural DifferencesThe media represents a vast range of cultures in the shows they air and, the global as wellas the local news. Some of the various aspects that culture manifests itself include; the language spoken by the people, their traditions, clothing, food, and music (Spencer, 2014, pp. 67). The messages passed by the media might tend to either strengthen various cultural values while undermining others (Shohat, & Stam, 2014, pp.24). In Australia, four different cultural categories as grouped by the Australian Human Rights Commission have been used on screen. They are based on the historical immigration trends and include; Anglo-Celtic, European, non- European and natives (Fiske, Hodge, & Turner, 2016, pp.33). There were only two Australian actors, Aaron Pederson and Heath Bergerson, in 1999, in the Australian television. Currently, native actors make up 5% of all main roles on screen, with the natives making up 3% of the entire population.

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Student’s Last Name3These were the results of a survey conducted between 2011 and 2015 on all the 199 dramas watched on Australian television. The survey was referred to as Seeing ourselves and focused on approximately two thousand main characters with an aim to unveil their cultural differences according to their roles (Hallam, 2013, pp.56).The representation of other culturally different groups, for example, those from the non-Anglo Celtic background and the LGBTQ society, by the media has been lagging behind. Being that 32% of Australians are not from the Anglo-Celtic cultural origin, research showed that of all characters on screen, only 18% of them had a non-Anglo Celtic origin. On the representation of different sexualities, 5% of the characters on TV are homosexual.Transgender and hermaphroditic characters cover a small percentage and sometimes are non-existent. The television shows created for children tend to be more heterogeneous as 50%, and above of all the main characters are of non-European origin. The kid actors that also take up these roles are not European thereby bringing out more visible diversity as well as teaching how to embrace other cultures from a tender age.Television shows such as Maximum Choppage and Jonah from Tonga were found to uphold a lot of diversity as together they summed up to a third of all non-European actors among all 51 comedy movies counted.Ways to uphold dominant discourse and disempower differencesThe verbal, scribbled and behavioral anticipation shared among people of the same culture is known as the dominant discourse. The integration of the dynamic cultures present in Australia will enable the people to understand each other thereby, live as one (Falicov, 2015, pp.45). Integration entails the dominant culture being influenced by the other cultures seen as minorities thereby, coming up with a culture that is modified but still accommodates each culture

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