ABSTRACT
To compare perceptions between Anglos and Native Americans, Highwater (1982) asked an Indian to draw the scene of the arrival of Columbus in 1492 (see Fig. 6.1) and asked Anglos and Native Americans to compare the Indian drawing to a 16th-century etching done by a European. This describes the scene painted by an Indian:
Children’s self-identity by ethnicity, among other things, is affected by their experiences, including their observations of mass media images. What they see in the mass media among other experiences affects their idea of who they are as well as how they perceive the world. Although the effects of violent and sexual images may grab our immediate attention, it is children’s self-identity and its development that has long-term effects. “This accumulated experience contributes to the cultivation of a child’s values, beliefs, dreams, and expectations, which shape the adult identity a child will carry and modify throughout his or her life” (Huntemann & Morgan, 2001, p. 311).
