The Medias Front Porch Looking In

Watch this video and think about a distinct feature it has, besides the music....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-HtiZcHUmE

Did you notice?

I did......

Why is it that in the majority of the media we see, the fictional couples and romantic pairs on T.V and in movies, are almost always of the same race and color? I'm not saying there is anything wrong with two people of the same race being in a relationship! But how come in the fictional media we rarely ever see a black person dating a white person, or an Asian person married to a white person. It always seems like the media makes the fictional romantic couples of the same race or colour.

For example in the music video you just watched called "My Front Porch Looking In" the song is about how this mans favorite picture is looking through the window of his porch and seeing his beautiful family.

In the music video we see different people looking in to see the person/people they love, aka 'the view they love the most...'. An Asian woman looks in and sees her Asian boyfriend somewhere in a busy city in Asia. A black woman looks in and sees her black husband and son standing in a park beside a basketball net (hello stereotypes!?). A white man looks in and sees his white love interest standing in a field of flowers!

Now I am sure that the country band Lonestar and the other creators of the music videos main focus and goal was not to have these stereotypical traits, and I am just using this video as an example of something that is very prominent in many aspects of the media (a totally different example of this stereotypical trait, is in Disney movies such as High School Musical.)

Coincidence? I think not.

Stereotypical? I think so.

The Profile Picture Disease

Flip through magazines, turn on the t.v, walk around in the city looking at billboards and advertisements. Its everywhere. You can't get away from it. We are bombarded with it. And its what teen girls are striving to be.

Most likely if you are a teenager of any gender, age, race etc, if you go on to your Facebook and look through your friends (specifically girls) profile pictures its clear to see that everyone is striving to have the same thing. Your profile picture on Facebook is one of the main things that defines you; one of the first things people see when they visit your profile, and boy do we know it. Teens, especially females, can take literally hundreds of photos of themselves, with the final goal of the 'perfect' profile picture, which must go through the whole editing process, with the strong hope to get lots of comments and numerous 'likes' . The Internet has basically given all of the resources to have your own personal 'me magazine' with websites such as http://www.picnik.com/, which is basically just an easy to use Photo Shop where girls can make their skin look perfectly toned, their faces look thinner, their eyes look brighter, get rid of acne, and basically change one single picture into something that barely resembles their real selves. I like to call this The Profile Picture Disease, some have it more intense then others but most girls are victim to it. How can something such as our profile picture on Facebook be so easy to fake? How can something that is supposed to define us and show who we really are be so easy to makeup this new person with no teenage acne and no neck fat? None of us are perfect, but for some reason we all love to make ourselves look perfect on Facebook. Don't we know that all the people we have as friends on Facebook that will view our Profile Picture have probably seen our flaws in person, and still seem to like us. So why do we try and have this perfect still frame of ourselves?

I wonder what Facebook would look like without websites such as Picnik, and special camera settings and makeup .....would Facebook just be a huge crowd of very ugly people?
or real people?
You decide.
Could you put up a picture with zero makeup, zero editing........just the real you........*GASP*