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.
This may be true, but at least the entertainment industry is beginning to break out of the stereotypes. An example being "The Princess and the Frog" released by Disney recently. That was a HUGE step for them. Progress is being made, though slow.
ReplyDeleteThis is SO TRUE!
ReplyDeleteIt's a really old style too. If you read Archie Comics, you'll probably know who Chuck Clayton is. If you don't, he's the son of Coach Clayton, one of two black families in Riverdale. The other black family is never really showed, but Nancy, Chuck's girlfriend, is part of the other family. Chuck and Nacy have their fare shares of arguments, but they never date other people, because, well, there AREN'T any other African-Americans in Riverdale. If there was, I'm sure they'd resort to dating the a black person, before they dated a while person.
I totally agree with this! Even though the issue is so much better than it used to be, for some people it's still so strange to see a white person and a black person get married. My aunt married a man from the Philippeans, his skin isn't really that dark, but people still say things. I think it's an issue people just need to relax about. Maybe if there was more in the media about it -because media really is centre of everything- it wouldn't be such a big deal?
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