Unit 3 - Issues, ideas and attitudes

• analyse and respond to representations of

contemporary social issues, ideas and attitudes in
a range of literary and non-literary texts,
including media texts.
• Investigate, explore and analyse how meaning and
perspectives are shaped by the relationships
between language, purpose, text, contexts and
audiences.
 What is Racism?
Understand some of the core concepts that underpin this unit.
Othering
Othering
Othering
Othering
• “We… determine the membership of our own
social groups, and its boundaries, by deciding who
we are not.”
• We describe “who ‘we’ were, and contrasting that
construction with the lesser grouping of ‘them’ –
the other.”
• Cane be defined by: Race, culture, religion,
nationality, age, language, sporting team, home
town, people who read novels in their spare time.
Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism
• History curriculum: only teaching the history of
the major developed countries and ignoring the
developing and underdeveloped countries
altogether, is an example of ethnocentrism in
schools.
• Children who are taught only the greatness of one
country, might lead them to develop prejudices
against other countries.
Ethnocentrism
• to assume that we are somehow better than them.
• Ethnocentrism is the practice of placing your own
group on an unrealistically high pedestal, and then
looking down on all those who are not part of that
group.
Prejudice
Prejudice
Prejudice
Prejudice
• Prejudice is best understood as a hostile attitude
towards a person from another group, based
solely upon membership of that group.

• However, for prejudice to work effectively as a

concept, it needs to be teamed with another idea,
one that produces a coherent target for that
prejudice to focus on: stereotyping.
Stereotyping
Stereotyping
• https://youtu.be/LgetlYiMyuI?t=36
?Positive? Stereotypes

I am Asian, so I know
a lot of doctors.
Stereotyping
• -All black people are good at basketball
-All Asians are smart in math
-All Italians are great cooks
-All white people are successful
-All black people like hip hop music
Stereotyping
Stereotyping
• You can’t be prejudice against a group of people,
and admit that they are a diverse collection of
individuals.
• Instead, the entire group becomes characterised
without regard for individual difference – and
usually negatively.
Scapegoating
Scapegoating
Scapegoating
Scapegoating
• A person or group of people that are blamed for
all our problems.
• But they are not really to blame.
Discrimination
Discrimination
Discrimination
Discrimination
Discrimination
• This is the process whereby members of particular
groups are denied equal treatment, based solely
upon their membership of that group.
• Discrimination comes in a number of forms –
individual, institutional, cultural
Institutional
individual
Cultural
Race
Race
Race
• referring specifically to observable physical
differences, and the notion of race came to
presume that all people can be classified into one
of several distinct, biological groups on the basis
of their physical characteristics.
Ethnicity
Ethnicity
Ethnicity
• Ethnic classifications are based upon social factors
such as nationality, culture, religion and language.
Racism – Definition One
• humanity can be organised in various groups –
races – and that these groups can be ranked
according to achievement, and worth.
• ‘the belief that some groups are inherently –
biologically – inferior to other groups’
Racism – Definition Two
• A generalised dislike of people from different
racial grouping - most focused upon the colour of
a person’s skin.
• Now often expressed in cultural terms.
• Not always founded upon belief in biological
inferiority.
Racism – Definition Three
• Racial hatred extends not only to a person’s
perceived race, but also to their colour,
nationality and ethnic origin.
• Therefore, it would be considered racist for an
Anglo-Australian to call out offensive comments
to someone from an Irish or Serbian background,
even though they may appear to be from the
same ‘race’.
Homework
• Reading – On One Note
• Racism – Key Concepts
• What is Racism?
• Careful Trevor, Your Ethnocentrism is Showing
• Articles – browse and scan. Read 3 on different
topics.

Next term is YEAR 12! Task 1 is another

Persuasive Editorial (This time about… guess)