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. / Media utövar ett stort inflytande på miljontals människor varje dag genom att de dagligen kommer i kontakt med media genom radio, nyhetstidningar och TV. Medias tendens att dramatisera vissa händelser och fenomen är vanligt och detta sker vanligtvis genom lockande nyhetsrubriker med syfte att nå ut till så många följare som möjligt. Studiens syfte är att undersöka hur svensk och utländsk media har valt att framställa grekerna samt undersöka hur framställningen påverkar grekerna och vilka konsekvenser detta kan tänkas bringa. För att studien skulle bli genomförbar har vi undersökt tio nyhetsartiklar från två populära svenska tidningar, där var och en av artiklarna har kodats för att visa ett synligt samband mellan hur nyhetsartiklarna framställer grekerna. Vi har även genomfört tio intervjuer med greker som bor i Sverige för att ta reda på hur grekerna uppfattar, upplever och påverkas av medias negativa framställning. Resultatet av framställningen och intervjupersonernas svar har tillsammans med tidigare forskning, teoretiska analysverktyg och ansatser analyserats för att ge en grund till vilka konsekvenser en sådan framställning kan leda till. Det presenterade resultatet visar att medias framställning av grekerna är allt annat än hygglig. Grekerna framställs som lata förtidspensionärer, opålitliga och odugliga till att betala skatt och sina skulder. Den negativa framställningen har lett till en rad konsekvenser; stereotypisering, generalisering och stämpling, vilket i sin tur påverkar den sociala identiteten och identitetsskapandet.

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Greeks in connection with the crisis in Greece is portrayed in Swedish newspapers, as well as the second generation Greeks in Sweden experiencing and interpreting the portraying and how it affects their everyday lives. The idea is to create an understanding of what happens when ethnic aspects is being portrayed in the media and how it is perceived and interpreted by second generation immigrants, and what this might mean for the impact of their daily life. The study is based, therefore on the following questions; how are the Greeks in connection with the crisis in Greece being portrayed in Swedish newspapers? How does second generations Greeks in Sweden perceive and interpret the portraying, and how it affects their everyday lives? The study's basic methodological approach is qualitative text analysis and qualitative interviews. Qualitative text analysis is to bring out the essential content through careful reading of the text parts and the context in which it is included. In text analysis, one can distinguish two main types of questions, namely questions relating to systematize the content of the texts, and those relating to critically examine the contents of the texts. This study also embodies the qualitative interviews to further answer the study's purpose and issues. Through qualitative interviews, the researcher insight into the events and the social world in which the interviewee present themselves in. By combining these two approaches, through the systematic text analysis clarify the given structure of the actors in one way or another which is important in the current economic crisis in Greece, but also in the portraying of it. The newspapers stigmatize second generation Greeks through discourse that is created, and the stereotypical notion that usually can be misinterpreted among its readers. The portraying and the stereotypical notions stigmatizes second generation Greeks because they interpret it as incompatible with reality and experiencing it all as strenuous, and the emotions of anger, irritation and sadness.