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Generation Influence: How the Media Contributes to Discrimination Introduction : I am a brown Bengali child, born and raised in New York and yet was still placed in speech classes to adapt to the already adopted community. I spoke English for the most part at home-- I more so needed classes on how to speak Bengali rather than trying to speak English, something I was very fluent in. Growing up in a Muslim household meant going to the Mosque after school every day, reading the Quran, and learning about my religion. To emphasize, “Muslim” or “Islam” is not a race, yet, society seems to equate religious beliefs to one's appearance. Race refers to skin color--black, white, or brown--ethnicity refers to cultural factors and affiliation with a region based on history, language, or ancestry. Nevertheless, people will continue to look at a woman wearing a burqa and hijab or a man with a long beard, Kufi (rounded cap), and thawb (garment), and deem them as “ISIS lover” o...

The news is a form of mass media in which I found various flaws within it. One of the biggest flaws was the racially and religious biased seen in news stories that often persuade the audience to think a certain way. We, however, are able to change this by simply getting to the point with news headlines as opposed to making it a catchy headline. A tragedy is not catchy. The news is a source of knowledge about what is going on around the world. That in itself should require the attention of people. Also, the news is information based and thus should not be an opportunity for people to try to make the audience think a certain way. I made a mockup of what news articles should look like. For easy accessibility, an app called "Generation Influence" would feature the news article called From the Dining Table , bringing light to conversation most may think inappropriate; for example, politics, current events, money, etc. from the dining table. Representing news to gener...