"Den lata och odugliga greken"
En studie om medias framställning av greken samt hur grekerna upplever framställningen och vilka konsekvenser detta kan tänkas bringa
Media has an influence on millions of people around the world, this influence can be positive as well as negative as a consequence of how phenomena and a certain event are interpreted. Mass media tend to magnify and dramatize events in form of attractive headlines in order to get as many readers as possible. One of the countries that the media spotlight focused on in recent years is Greece. However these attractive headlines, have not contributed anything positive for the country and one can say that it has done more damage than good. In the media the Greeks have been stereotyped, radicalized and labeled as "lazy" due to the representation of media. The purpose of this study was to describe how Swedish media represent?s the Greeks and how the Greeks perceive this petition but also what the consequences are here to become. This study has been constructed by the use of previous research and theoretical concepts, studies of Swedish published news articles and interviews with Greeks living in Sweden has been performed. The results show that the Swedish media slant led to that the Greeks got stereotyped as lazy and incompetent, which in one way or another touched and affected the Greeks living in Sweden. It's a matter of how people's identity construction is affected and also the consequences that arise due to media bias and media slant.