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This webpage shows the Cleveland Indians masocot, and then 16 other illustrations that use the same face but wearing different things. Every illustration portrays a different stereotype that a race could be labled as. The aurthor's main point is that the if it wasn't the Cleveland Indians, then could could probably be one of these other illustrations. We have been so used to Chief Wahoo and became so a customed to the way he looks, that we haven't even thought of what a different races stereotype would look like with the same face. The author is trying to show his audience that it is very easy to just through a hat on the face or color it black, and then the whole image and stereotype would change. It shows that stereotypes are just made up by what other people think that race wears or looks like. It also shows how racial the Cleveland Indians mascot really is because that isn't what every Indian looks like at all. So if it was the Cleveland Gansta's then it would have a stereotypical black man with chains on and a ball cap, because that is the stereotype of them.

There is a stereotypical illustration of Indains, Japanese, French, Negroes, Latinos, Irsih, Italians, Africans, Germans, Polish, Jews, Chinese, Skinheads, Spanish, Gansta's, White Folks, Catholics. They are all very racial and stereotypical; for example the white folks have a hood on hinting that he is part of the KKK. The Polish person has a dunce cap on, and the Africans have a tribal bone through there nose. The Germans have a Nazi symbol around the neck and a Hitler mustache. Every head though has the same smile, nose, and almost the same eyes. The Japanese and Chinese faces have smaller eyes, hinting the stereotype that they havee slanted eyes. The Gansta's are the only one that it doens't show there eyes, it is just solid black.

What would the Middle East face look like now since 9/11 as occurred?

Do you think any of these illustrations depict the race wrong(not just the fact that they are all stereotypes and awful depictions)?

I feel that the middle east person would have a turbon on his head and some sort of beard on his face. I always see illustrations that depict people from that region that way. I also think some of these racial stereotypes are wrong. The Germans one kinda gets to me because it represents someone like Adolf Hitler, but when he was doing his big thing around WWII. HIs big thing was to have the average german be blonde with blues eyes, but this illutration is ironic because it is the exact opposite of what he wanted. I just think that these illustrations are atleast the old stereotypes of the races that they are portraying, becasue i don't see people of that heritage or region like that at all. I did like how the author portrayed them all on the same face though because it really shows how similar people really are. I thought this was an interesting subject and liked discussing it in class.