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Master Of None Stereotypes

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about the “other” but also the lack of any apparent acknowledgement of the dominant culture. In biology, people are not divided by their race; race is instead a cultural and historical way to categorize and to signify amongst a variety of different skin tones. Accepting that skin ‘color’, however meaningless we know it to be, opens up the possibility of engaging with theories of signification which can highlight the elasticity and the emptiness of ‘racial’ signifiers, and more importantly, the ideological work which has to be done in order to turn them into signifers in the first place. The differences in skin tones do not issue meaning, but culturally and historically have been made to mean something. “Indians on TV” presents an edited production of a composite whole of Indian stereotypes from film and …show more content…

This euro western discourse has, and continues to secure the power of the white heterosexual male subject. This can easily be seen in the series through the old, conservative, white-heterosexual network executive male in Master of None. Aside from whiteness being an identity, it is also entrenched in the institutional structure, usually benefitting those with related social and cultural capital. The Eurocentric framework, standards, and content are not only given more resources, but also more dominance and status especially in the hiring and promoting process. This is not seen in Dev’s case, it is quite the opposite in terms of casting in the show. Whiteness holds a certain form of construction that seems natural in producing, but media plays a significant role in this structure. Many people would like to think that there has been a significant amount of progress in attempt to gear away from the Eurocentric framework by suggesting that there is now diversity on television. Diversity has watered down into having only one ethnic person. The episode also brings up the notion

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