The influence of social contexts in 'Cuffs'
Social context is how media products reflect the society in which they are produced and that of their target audience. For example, there is a number of terrorist attacks taking place in modern day society all around the world. There have been frequent occasions when those attacks were by people of the Muslim race leading the generalisation and association of Muslim people and terrorists attackers.
An example of this is in 'Cuffs' where a man is mugged and stabbed because he is of the Muslim descent which reflects in society because people assume all Muslims are terrorists. This is a major social issue and becoming a common stereotype because not all Muslims are terrorists like they are regularly now portrayed to be. This stereotype has even caused bullying of Muslim children in school by their peers, duplicating into more social issues - such as bullying. In addition to this, bullying often leads to dropping of grades, depression and suicide which are all other social issues factoring from this divide in common nationality's and Muslim nationality.
This links to the issues of 2010 because on January 7th Muslim gunmen in Egypt killed nine people after opening fire on a crowd of Christians which would begin to suggest to people that Muslims are violent people thus rendering the modern stereotype of the association between terrorism and Muslims.
A very good understanding of contexts - well done!
ReplyDeleteThe only improvement I would like is to offer more detail in your example from the show - how can we see all this great, detailed context in our episode of Cuffs?
Mr P
Because the man is jumped and stabbed purely because of his religion. Also the fact that was in a supermarket - where every day people go shopping for normal things such as groceries, which makes it even worse due to the circumstances.
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