1. The trouble of national
minorities. Discussions in media
– how to counteract the effect of
negative messages?
2013
Audra Avižiūtė
Gabrielė Kloniūnaitė
2. National minority
• National minority is a demographic definition. It
refers to a group of foreign-borns, living not in
their native country.
•According to the Lithuanian’s Department of
Statistics there are more than 10%
non-lithuanian nationality inhabitants.
6. Troubles of national
minorities
• Despite the fact that the biggest number of
minorities in Lithuania consists of Russian
and Poles, it seems that problems we’re
facing applies only on Lithuanian - Polish
partnership.
• Media is one of the biggest factors to create
stereotypes of national minorities.
7.
8. Variety of newspapers'
headings
"Poles think about us better than we do."
"Parliamentarian in Poland: Polish parties in
Lithuania should stop making conflicts."
"Poles came up with the plan to bring Lithuania
back to XIX century."
"Will the relations between Lithuania and
Poland ever get better?"
9.
10. Variety of newspapers'
headings
"Three Poles desecrated Presidency."
"Jewish school headmaster: Polish
people are making a huge mistake about
Lithuanian language."
„New stage of Lithuania‘s and Poland‘s
partnership – tension from the inside.“
11.
12. Variety of newspapers'
headings
“V. Adamkus: In Lithuania we don’t know much about
Poland, we visit it only because of the shops.”
“How to “restart” partnership between
Lithuania and Poland?”
“B.Komorowskis: today Lithuania and Poland
are going to the same direction.”
13.
14. Quotes
Latvia's minister of Defence Artis Pabriks noticed that
“Warsaw's arguments about national minorities reminds
him of Moscow's position about Russian- speaking people
in Latvia“
“It is not enough to have traditionally good relationships.
We are sure, that they can and have to be better than just
good. – says D. Tuskas“
15. Quotes
Analitics Kinga Dzudzinska and Vojciech Jablonski doubted
that “Lithuania and Poland will stop fighting any time soon.“
Poet Tomas Venclova in “ Gazeta Wyborcza“: “In the
partnership between Lithuania and Poland, both countres
have made lots of follies.“
16. The effects of negative
messages
• Hatred between countries;
• Chauvinism;
• False stereotypes and misunderstanding;
• Political problems;
18. Task
• Find examples of messages about countries‘ relationship
in both Polish and Lithuanian media
• Compare them
• Think about the ways of counteracting
the effects of negative messages
• Prezi / Power Point presentation
• Duration of presentation – 20 min.
19. Ways to counteract the effect
of negative messages
•Family members should ban negative
comments in their surrounding;
• Schools also should prevent students from
all those negative effects by teaching them
about stereotypes;
20. Ways to counteract the
effect of negative messages
• We should have a critical sense of reading
media. We have to learn not to believe
everything it gives;
• We have to have our opinion, which doesn’t
depend on what newspapers say;
21. Conclusion
We create media and media creates us. Media
does not say what to think, it offers us what to think
about.
