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Stereotypes in Childrens Television The Proud Family     The Proud Family is a childrens program that runs daily on The Disney Channel and on Saturday mornings on start-off principle Kids. It is a TV-G rated program. The manoeuver is about an African-American family with the last name Proud. in that respect is a mom, dad, three kids, and a grandm different. The master(prenominal) character of the head is the oldest little girlfriend named penny Proud who is probably in junior high. Also, some of Pennys friends ar in the show. All of the characters in this show argon classifyd by many things such as locomote and sex activity, including Penny.      The first stereotype I noticed about the show was the way the cartoonist force the different characters. All of the African-American characters were drawn with enormous lips and huge noses. Meanwhile, the two flannel characters in the show were both drawn with wider heads and cypherme d smarter than the other characters in the show. Also, all the African-American characters talked in a dialect while the Caucasian characters talked slower. In addition, all of the African-American characters all called each other brotha, which is other stereotype, because not all African-Americans call each other that or analogous to be called that.     There are many stereotypes made about the principal(prenominal) character Penny. First, her race is the main issue in the show. She is shown drawn the same way as the other African-American, with the bigger features described before. Penny withal has a cordial of attitude about her, which is also often associated with African-American females. Not only is she stereotyped by race, but by gender as well. She is shown as the smart and understanding friend, probably because she is the main girl character in the show. For example, when her friend, Dlionay, has a problem with a boy, Penny is the star that helps Dlionay out and gives her advice and helps her try to win back the boy.     However, there were also other gender stereotypes in the show as well. The girl, Dlionay was often shown as the kind of damsel in distress. A few times a boy was sent to rescue her. For example, one of her friends was stuck out in the water and or else of getting him herself, she plead to the other boy to please save him. This shows the stereotype that men are stronger and braver than women... ...e typical physical stereotypes of African-Americans, this show is good for children to see because the characters are kind to each other and it portrays a loving family and ingleside and great friends for the children.I believe that overall this show gives a dogmatic image of African-American characters to everyone who watches. Even though there were some stereotypes of race and gender, it didnt affect the overall message of the program, which was to help out friends when they are in need an d make sure your family is important in your life. This show was funny as it was compassionate. If I had children I would like them to watch this show because almost all of the other shows I saw on video recording before choosing to write about this one had Caucasian characters or animals and the main focus of the show. I believe that this program, The Proud Family, gives a great embrace of diversity to The Disney Channels and ABC Kids other programs and gives children more of an chance to relate to a character and learn that minority people are in important part of out population as well. whole caboodle CitedPerse, Elizabeth M. Media Effects and Society. Mahwah Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2001.