for me, ever since i was 4, i've learnt that africa is a very diverse continent made up of blacks, whites, asians, disabled, young and elderly people, hetrosexuals, homosexuals; all types of people. yet why is that when africa is mentioned, particularly in the media and the news, we constantly being fed images of just blacks and whites, and that black people are regularly and negatively depicted as being orphans, poor and helpless when it is not always the case? because for me, i see africa, as like those other continents as being ethnically and socially diversive as europe and the americas to name. although where it does differ is the economic and financial structure, which it seems to lack in certain parts.
what are your general views on this question that i've posed here? are you fed up of the media and certain people who insist africa is a country? of which it is not. what about the negative stereotypes that we are shown on tv and in the newspapers? what do you make of those?
2006-10-10
09:14:41
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