A television program that I watch regularly is Full House, a comedic, goofy, show about a father and his three daughters, whose mother recently died in a car crash, and their uncle and father’s best friend who came to live with them, and help them get through this time. I have noticed a few stereotypes about this show that have been reoccurring throughout the show as I have watched it. For instance, “normal teens” are portrayed as almost always white, and if they are of a different ethnicity, thought this very rarely occurs, they will never be major characters, just something to present an illusion that this show is ethnically diverse. In addition, this particular family lives in an enormous house, and is extremely wealthy. After all, all three adults in the household have had quick and easy career paths to success.
This makes me thing about the vision that our society has (or had, for this show was made mostly in the late 1980s to 90s) for the perfect American family. This is portrayed as a wealthy white family surrounded by other wealthy white families just like them. And, this helps me to know about what the creators of this show might have thought would appeal to the majority of viewers who would watch this. This show the type of life that most people would want to have, so they will its in from tot their television for an hour or so, pretending that they can have it. This then makes me feel that people are still very not accepting of other cultures, or were not at the time, because this shows how people thought that to be happy, and perfect, a family needed to be a certain ethnicity. And I think this is because white people are so rarely ridiculed for their ethnicity because they have been on top of society ever since the Europeans came to the Americas.
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