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Powerful institutions like the media can influence our conceptions of race and ethnicity.
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As advertising, cinema, news and TV play a bigger role in the socialization of youth, the images of minorities that they see as children will be the images that they reproduce as adults.
.What kinds of values are being passed to young people through media?
The effects of media on the socialization of our youth are more profound today than at any other period in history. Traditionally, stories and beliefs were passed on through the family, religion, tribe, community or school. Today, by the end of high school, the average student will have spent 15 000 hours watching TV and only 11 000 hours in the classroom (Davison, 1997). Media is becoming less of a form of leisure and more an agent for the communication of values in the lives of our young people. Media creates roles for people that are often accepted in......

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