Discourse Power And Racism Essay
In a research book by Teun A. Van Dijk (2007), the relationship among discourse, power and racism were mainly dealt with. Racism, more generally ethnicism, are partly reproduced through various forms of discourse, textbooks, official discourse of the authorities, and various types of media discourse and etc. The author found out that ‘the racism talk’ was discovered in only a few forms of everyday discourse, such as informal talk with family members, neighbor or friends. It indicates that people nowadays, regard discrimination among ethnic groups are not desirable, however, people are unconsciously ranking who the superior ethnic groups are. Furthermore, in a research article by Liza Schuster, it examine the relationships between xenophobia