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This is an audio essay about the “under-representation” of Hong Kong Filipinos in Hong Kong Media. “Under-representation” is a situation in which a group of people has “cultural invisibility” in the mass media. This audio essay talks about the situation of the Hong Kong Filipinos and how the Hong Kong Filipinos are under-represented in the media.

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my mum is wandering around the house in angst at how they just made a slight mention of the women's football final on the bbc news. i see her point entirely. women's sport is so invisible. when i was in primary school i was such a girly girl i was brainwashed in to thinking i shouldn't play football because i felt i didn't fit in. i wasn't a tomboy. i didn't think it was my place because it is represented as such a boyish/manly game. it's so insulting how invisible sport is for women but oh! when it comes to beach volleyball at the london olympics we can all enjoy those girls bouncing around right? l:'

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We were given a research task to test how effective our methods of research are.  We’ve spent approximately half an hour going through a magazine, checking the proportion of white, black, mixed raced, and Asian women.  We discussed what makes someone white, black, mixed race or Asian.  We are going to count each and every woman in the magazine, then make a rough estimate of the percentage.

  Ethnic representation of women in magazines:

 Ethnicity

White: 75%

Mixed Race: 10%

Black: 10%

Asian: 5%

We concluded that it’s to do with skin colour, tone of their skin, facial complexion and what country they look like they come from.  This has been quite a challenge because we don’t know enough about the models background in the magazine, we can only judge on their skin tone, but their image may have been edited. 

No matter the exact numbers which we estimated the percentage from; we know that some of the UK magazines are still partial to white women.  The problem with our research is that we haven’t carried out research about ethnic representation in other countries, so we’re hardly an authority on that matter.  In other countries, cultures and religions, representation of women will be different, but one thing that I can conclude with is that ethnic representation is based off readership of the magazine and what the standards in the country are.  I’m surprised that white women are so predominant, considering how multicultural Britain is supposed to be. 

To get a broader perspective on the issue, I’d need to use the internet to carry out further research.  I could acquire information from secondary sources that are authentic; this would make information much quicker, and confirm that the conclusions that I’ve come to about ethnic representation in magazines are accurate.