Men, on the other hand, are more likely to be old, job holders, out of the home and authorities on the products. They are also more likely to explain why the products are good and to recommend expensive items." (Sakamoto, 1999)
However over the years, changes have been noticed in some respects. Women are not as much associated with cheaper products as they once were due to their improved financial status. However they were still preferred as young and beautiful instead of older or more mature. The study found that while in terms of argument and product price, stereotypes had decreased, they had become more prominent in terms of location. Location here refers to being in the home, in the kitchen or outside home.
The study suggested in its conclusion that, "traditional stereotypic portrayals of men and women in Japanese television commercials have not substantially decreased from 1961 to 1993. Nor do they accurately reflect contemporary social trends in Japan. As these traditional portrayals can negatively affect attitudes toward women, greater efforts to reduce gender stereotyping in current Japanese television commercials are recommended." (Sakamoto, 1999)
While television commercials have continued to reinforce certain stereotypes in Japan, the print media is not free of this guilt either. Magazines have consistently been portraying women in a certain manner thus reinforcing traditional stereotypes. Magazines analysis also confirms what has already been said before i.e. women are associated with low priced product and were younger than men. Women were also more likely to be portrayed negatively than men. Magazine analysis also confirmed international findings that "women as central figures portrayed as being younger than men. That finding mirrors those in the international gender literature, which reports women being stereotypically portrayed as young more often than men...women often portrayed stereotypically as being more concerned with physical attractiveness...
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, notes at that there has been a "paucity of studies" on the effectiveness of video in teaching culture through foreign-language programs. Herron investigated whether students retain more ("little c") cultural "practices" or ("big C") cultural "products" by watching video in a second-language program (Herron, 1999, p. 522). Thirty-eight students were given a pretest before watching the 10 videos that were part of the French-language curriculum. Immediately afterward they were
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