Diversity Day
Stereotypical Diversity
While watching the oh so popular TV series “the office”The Office specifically the episode “Ddiversity Dday,”, I came to realize how big of a deal racism is. I believe that racism is an absolutely pointless objective, which many people live by. As the famous Michael Scott, who tries to solve problems, but eventually ends up making them ten times worse as they were to begin with, undergoes a Chris rock routine and has an African American male coincidently named Mr. Black come and try to teach about diversity. This doesn’t work out of course, because Michael thinks he knows more about it thaen Mr. Black, so Michael decides to take it upon himself. To try and show everyone about diversity, he does this activity where he gets a bunch of blank index cards and writes different races and ethnicities on each one. These include; Asian, Bblack, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, and of course for himself, Martin Luther King, juniorJr. Although this exercise was to “better” everyone getting along and to teach them about diversity, it turns out to make it much worse as tempers begin to burst. As you watch this episode, you can see the point in which Michael Scott is trying to get across, racism. By doing this exercise, where each of the employees picks a name tag and sticks it to their tag, it created a lot of controversy. For instance, when Dwight was trying to figure out which race he could possibly be, he went up to Pam and had her start telling him facts, in which she didn’t believe. She started off by saying with facts based on totally untrue things; you might possibly be a bad driver. Now Dwight immediate came to the conclusion and yelled out, “I’m a woman!” Now, this portrays those facts he probably has heard about led him into the conclusion that should make him a woman. However, his tag was not a woman;, it was Asian. Yet again, this is a point the finger type of an analogy. Another key point in analyzing this film is the purpose of
While watching the oh so popular TV series “the office”The Office specifically the episode “Ddiversity Dday,”, I came to realize how big of a deal racism is. I believe that racism is an absolutely pointless objective, which many people live by. As the famous Michael Scott, who tries to solve problems, but eventually ends up making them ten times worse as they were to begin with, undergoes a Chris rock routine and has an African American male coincidently named Mr. Black come and try to teach about diversity. This doesn’t work out of course, because Michael thinks he knows more about it thaen Mr. Black, so Michael decides to take it upon himself. To try and show everyone about diversity, he does this activity where he gets a bunch of blank index cards and writes different races and ethnicities on each one. These include; Asian, Bblack, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, and of course for himself, Martin Luther King, juniorJr. Although this exercise was to “better” everyone getting along and to teach them about diversity, it turns out to make it much worse as tempers begin to burst. As you watch this episode, you can see the point in which Michael Scott is trying to get across, racism. By doing this exercise, where each of the employees picks a name tag and sticks it to their tag, it created a lot of controversy. For instance, when Dwight was trying to figure out which race he could possibly be, he went up to Pam and had her start telling him facts, in which she didn’t believe. She started off by saying with facts based on totally untrue things; you might possibly be a bad driver. Now Dwight immediate came to the conclusion and yelled out, “I’m a woman!” Now, this portrays those facts he probably has heard about led him into the conclusion that should make him a woman. However, his tag was not a woman;, it was Asian. Yet again, this is a point the finger type of an analogy. Another key point in analyzing this film is the purpose of
Cited: “Diversity Day.” The Office. Writ. B.J. Novak. Dir. Ken Kwapis. 29 Mar. 2005. Television.