Benedict Anderson (1983) maintains that the media play a vital role in constructing a national/regional identity as in reality the nation is too big for everyone to know each other yet they often have shared values ; "The unification of people in the modern world is achieved not by the military but by cultural means, in particular the media system enables people (of a nation or region) to feel part of a coherent, meaningful, and homogenous community."
Higson goes on to day, " Stereotyping is a form of shorthand ... a way of establishing character ... that often reducing the character to the most basic form so that the stereotype often becomes comic," (Higson 1998)
Higson, "No wonder then that a particular characteristics may be criticised for being stereotypical meaning it lacks a realistic dimension, it fails to match up to the reality of identity," (Higson 1998)
Medhurst, "They're awful because they're not like us,"
'Colloquial dialect'
- Oggy - Pasty
- Call Me Dreckly - Call me later
- Proper Job - Nice work
- Wasson? - What's going on?
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