Week 2: Mollie Chater

• What issues do his albums raise in terms of representation of ‘race’, and particularly ethnic and cultural stereotyping?

Stereotyping is a fixed belief around a group or class of people (Mcleod, 2017). We use stereotyping in the social world when we are in society. We can stereotype both subconsciously and consciously due to how we were brought up, our values, opinions and even our peers can be factors that create stereotypes that we can identify.

Herge Continuedly depicted that other races than his own were less than intelligent and that many other cultures needed western guidance, due to behaviour differences. This racism can be seen in ‘The Blue Lotus’ and ‘Tintin in the Congo’.

Multiple times is stereotyping used throughout Herge’s work with negative depictions of different races. With both negative traits and behaviours being shown by anyone other than Tintin.

References:

Mcleod, S. (2017). Stereotypes. SimplePsychology. Retrieved From https://www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html