从《南方公园》看美国政治正确及其社会影响_英语论文

On the American Political Correctness and Its Influence on Society from South Park

摘要

本文基于对于《南方公园》的研究，试着去发现政治正确对美国社会的影响。西方的政治正确已经成为了一个不可忽视的文化现象，在潜移默化中改变着美国社会。《南方公园》作为美国一部另类经典卡通剧集，与美国社会有着密不可分的关系，因此本文以南方公园来介绍西方的政治正确。本文首先通过美国大选来阐述自己的观点，接下来以剧集里出现的人物为例介绍了南方公园在政治正确方面独到的见解。这篇论文同时也会集中于言论自由和政治正确的关系，同时研究美国社会上的那些弱势群体，分析政治正确和他们之间的关系。我们目前对于政治正确并没有太多的研究，这样的论文给我们一个机会去了解东西方文化的差异，同时也让我们得以从中反省自身给自己的人生一个规划。

关键词： 政治正确；大选；言论自由；少数族裔

Abstract

This thesis is based on the studies of political correctness from the South Park. The purpose is to find out the effect that the political correctness gives to the society. Political correctness has become a cultural phenomenon that can not be ignored and it changes American society gradually. South park is a unique and classical cartoon episode in America which have a close relationship with American society. So, it is reasonable to introduce political correctness from South Park. Firstly, the thesis will demonstrate his point through the election. After that, it will list examples which are supported by several events and characters coming from South Park to show its original opinion in political correctness. Next, the thesis will focus on the relationship between the political correctness and free speech. Then the thesis will pay close attention to minorities and analyze the relationship between them and political correctness. Since there are not enough articles about the political correctness, so this paper can give us a chance to narrow the gap between different cultures and it will help us to review ourselves in our daily life. 

Keywords:  political correctness; election; free speech; minority

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. The Political Correctness in the USA from South Park 2

3.1 The Election and Political Correctness 2

3.2 The Characters with Political Correctness 4

3.3 The Free Speech and Political Correctness 6

3.4 The minority in the USA with Political Correctness 8

3.4.1 Black People 8

3.4.2 Gender and Woman Right 10

3.4.3 Refugee 11

3.4.4 Gay 12

4. Conclusion 13