#representationmatters part 2

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#representationmatters

Representation matters part 2.

We spoke to 21 year old Vietnamese male who would like to remain anonymous:

Nope, I think Asian men are not portrayed in a good light in the media. Even more so Asian men like me who grew up in poorer areas of London who have been influenced quite a lot by black culture. I can't really relate to much of the Asian people I see on TV. The media doesn't portray Asian men in a good light. The same thing with black women I think.

Anonymous:

I think there never used to be but more recently there is a rise. Due to the rise of actors like Lupita Nyong’o. read a lot of European magazines like grazia and read it every month but i don’t really see a lot of black representation. They have a lot of make up stuff but it's not for my skin colour.

Black women on tv are not represented in the best light. Usually on tv black women play roles such as the baby mama and stuff like that. They will be wearing overly too much make up or large hair. they always have some sort of issue with them they are never just owning their own business like having a female black version of Ian Beale on Eastenders.

To change the representation of black people on TV there needs to be more influential people in the industry who are black. Like Viola Davis she recently won an Emmy (award) that was something big. It's good to celebrate it but she should have won that a long time ago.She was the first black woman to win an Emmy. I think it is slowly trying to get there.

@jay_pope

There is beginning to be an increase of representation of black men especially with Idris Elba and the black guy from star wars (John Boyega) but its still not enough positive representation. I think to change anything there needs to be more positive male black role models on TV and less use of the typical black male stereotypes.

@Zannihussain and @sweet_prima14:

There is very bad representation of people of my racial group, I’m from Afghanistan so you can imagine. The news shows a very bad representation. There is a lot of colourism in the media. They will use lighter skinned Asian girls in shows and you rarely see dark skinned Asian women.

In Afghanistan people look really different so there needs to be more representation of the different types of Asians.

Mona Iiman:

Not really, me being Muslim, I feel like Islam is being prejudiced by a lot of people there aren't enough Muslim people out there speaking out for Islam and telling everyone what Islam is really about. The media is looking at terrorists and ISIS group and taking them to represent Muslims in the UK which is not the case at all.

More leaders in Islam need to get up and be like this is not what our religion is about and these terrorists have nothing to do with Islam. Everything that the media has said so far about Islam and about Isis has nothing to do with the Quran itself. it's quite disappointing that no one has got up and made that link. There are so many religious people within Britain who know that Isis is practically chatting absolute rubbish. No one is saying ‘ this is what the Quran actually says’ because everything they're (ISIS) is against the Quran. More people need to be out there speaking out for us.

I think both religious leaders and the media should take responsibility. Most of Europe and America are making a great effort to drag the name of Islam down. The media is absolutely exaggerating the story in my opinion.

Light of mind

#representationmatters part 2