Een onderzoek naar allochtone en autochtone jongeren en politici in de televisiedemocratie

This thesis is a study on how ethnic minority and native young people in the Netherlands give meaning to television appearances by politicians on the basis of qualitative research. The study aimed to gain insight in how young people from different cultural backgrounds give meaning to television appearances of politicians from different cultural backgrounds and what factors play a role. If politicians and political parties want to increase the involvement of young people and want to have more impact on the current generation, it is important to know how this generation, which is characterized by its cultural diversity, talks and thinks about them. This study showed that both immigrant and native young people give meaning to television appearances of politicians based on what they generally think about politics and politicians. There is a clear difference in how immigrant and native people give meaning to these television appearances. Immigrant youth give meaning based on their own experiences where their origins, culture and believe play a role. They think that a negative image of them in Dutch society has arisen. They believe that due to politics and the media, fear is being spread among the native Dutch people about them. They feel neglected and therefore they often have negative experiences based on their origin, culture or believe. Because minority youth are feeling deprived and angry at the politicians and the media, they are also more negative about politics and politicians than native youth. Native young people give meaning to particular television appearances of politicians based on what they hear, read or see in the media and especially on television. Because they do not give meaning to politicians based on negative personal experiences in contrast to minority youth, they are also less negative about politics and television appearances by politicians. The emphasis is less because there is still a negative perception. According to native young people politicians promise things in advance that they already know they cannot fulfill. According to them politics today is all and only about winning votes and politicians do not care about what is good for citizens anymore.