How have media caricatures influenced your worldview of a culture? Give concrete examples.

Media caricatures have great power to influence our beliefs about cultures and our view of the culture would be totally based on the characteristics portrayed by the media. We watch so many advertisements in television, newspaper as well as internet and each advertisements passes some message about the specific cultures used in their advertisements. All the characteristics including dressing style, the behavior and communication style give a perception that the particular cultured people exhibit those manners. In childhood I used to watch advertisements of tobacco products which portrayed the main character smoking in public places and other characters showing respect to the smoker. I thought that smoking is a part of our culture and we can earn respect from others through smoking. When I grew up I learned the bad effects of smoking and I understood that my perception on smoking was wrong and it was just a marketing tactic to promote their product. In the same way media can influence our view of a culture both positively and negatively. When we are influenced by the features of a culture portrayed in the media we try to imitate them; good aspects will help us to become better individuals while bad aspects will ruin us. For example when we were influenced by a show in which media portrayed how carefully certain cultures respect elders, we also became careful while treating elders to show respect and advised our next generation also on the importance of respecting elders. When we see violence on screen we think that all the people in that culture encourage violence and try to keep way from them. But the truth may be something different.
 
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