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    The Barber: Agustina Azrina Indah Sari Sumarni

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    This short story by Flannery O'Connor takes place in a small Southern town in the 1950s. It focuses on a college professor named Rayber who decides to change barbers due to issues with his current barber's racist views. Specifically, Rayber supports a progressive political candidate, while his barber strongly supports a racist candidate who appeals to prejudice against black people. The story illustrates the stereotypes and prejudices that existed during this time through interactions between Rayber and his barber regarding the election. It reflects the multicultural issues present in the Deep South during a period of racial tensions and inequality.

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    This short story by Flannery O'Connor takes place in a small Southern town in the 1950s. It focuses on a college professor named Rayber who decides to change barbers due to issues with his current barber's racist views. Specifically, Rayber supports a progressive political candidate, while his barber strongly supports a racist candidate who appeals to prejudice against black people. The story illustrates the stereotypes and prejudices that existed during this time through interactions between Rayber and his barber regarding the election. It reflects the multicultural issues present in the Deep South during a period of racial tensions and inequality.

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    Menceritakan sebuah kisah seorang pria pemilik barber shop

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    The barber

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    This short story by Flannery O'Connor takes place in a small Southern town in the 1950s. It focuses on a college professor named Rayber who decides to change barbers due to issues with his current barber's racist views. Specifically, Rayber supports a progressive political candidate, while his barber strongly supports a racist candidate who appeals to prejudice against black people. The story illustrates the stereotypes and prejudices that existed during this time through interactions between Rayber and his barber regarding the election. It reflects the multicultural issues present in the Deep South during a period of racial tensions and inequality.

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    The Barber: Agustina Azrina Indah Sari Sumarni

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    This short story by Flannery O'Connor takes place in a small Southern town in the 1950s. It focuses on a college professor named Rayber who decides to change barbers due to issues with his current barber's racist views. Specifically, Rayber supports a progressive political candidate, while his barber strongly supports a racist candidate who appeals to prejudice against black people. The story illustrates the stereotypes and prejudices that existed during this time through interactions between Rayber and his barber regarding the election. It reflects the multicultural issues present in the Deep South during a period of racial tensions and inequality.

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    The barber

    Agustina
    Azrina
    Indah sari
    Sumarni
    Background

    Throughout American history, the ruling


    majority often takes action to prevent certain
    minorities from exercising political power,
    usually with the aim of maintaining the
    hegemony of the majority. But, behind the
    action there is a hidden motivation.
    Research Question
    What are the multiculturalism iss
    ues that can be found in Barber s
    hort story?
    How are the multiculturalism issu
    es reflected in the Barber short
    story?
    Biography about the Author
    • Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in
    Savannah, Georgia. She studied writing at the Unive
    rsity of lowa
    O’Connor’s story takes places in Dilton, is a town in t
    he deep South. This story focuses on why a college pr
    ofessor named Rayber decides to change barbers. Ra
    yber, being an educated man, believes in racial equali
    ty and supports a progressive political candidate by t
    he name of Darmon. Rayber’s barber supports a cand
    idate named Hawkson who never changes his speech
    es that appeal to the prejudices of lower class black.
    Anaylisis
    "You a nigger lover?" The barber asked
    From the quote above, showed that if the Rayber as the
    voters can be a nigger lover based on who would he
    choose in the election. But that is only the barber
    perseption, his negative prejudice can be racist and it
    made Rayber fed up with the brutal question. Not only
    prejudice, from the question above also can be found a
    stereotype issue. Where, a voters who choose Darmon is
    nigger lover because Darmon is colored.
    In the last speech “we get rid of them Mother Hubba
    rds and get us a man can put these niggers in their pl
    aces. Shuh.” It means that the Nigger voters didn’t ha
    ve a right to vote in the campaign, on the contrary he
    challenged the white voters to rid the Niggers in anot
    her place with their groups. They didn’t allow to live
    contiguous with the white skin.
    •
    Conclusion
    • Based on the analysis of this short story can be con
    cluded that stereotype and prejudice occur because
    of differences of opinion related to the election of l
    eaders. prejudice occurs because of the views of ot
    hers who claim someone negatively. And stereotyp
    e is the view of others who think that someone is ju
    dged based on views attached to a particular group
    or rac
    Theoritical framework

    • Multiculturalism
    •
    “Multiculturalism is a system of beliefs and behaviors
    that recognizes and respects the presence of all diver
    se groups in an organization or society, acknowledge
    and values their socio-cultural differences, and encou
    rages and enables their continued contribution withi
    n an inclusive cultural context which empowers all wi
    thin the organization or society.” (Rosado, 1996:2).

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