Racial and Gender Diversity

Recently I have watch a movie called Real Steel. Real Steel was about a popular sport called robot boxing where instead of having human boxing competitions, there would be robot boxing competitions operated by humans. This movie was a typical American movie with Caucasians being the dominant ethnic group. Also because this was a robot sci-fi movie, the people in the movie were mainly male. Even the robots that the owners owned were also being referred to as male robots. Though the movie mainly revolved around Caucasian males, females and other ethnic groups such as Japanese and African American still appeared in the movie. Having a diverse gender and ethnic group are important in media because not only having diversities will appeal to a larger group of people but also people are very sensitive when it comes to gender and racial stereotypes. On top of that, the people who have access to the media can be anybody from any part of the world. So the last thing producers want to do is to gain a negative impact on the media they project.

There were a few racial stereotypes appeared throughout the movie. First, Max the main character's son said he played Japanese videos games because they were better. Second the people who owned some of the best robots including the best one were Japanese. This was stereotypical because we often associate technology with Japanese, so when it comes to people with the best technology, most people would automatically think of the Japanese. The final racial stereotype was a scene where two people were making a bet for the competition and one of them called the other person a cowboy because he was wearing a cowboy hat and the "cowboy" called him "homie" because he was African American. These two were typical stereotypes for southern Americans and African Americans because these were the stereotypes that the media portrait the audience to think.