Who Are You on TV?
For this activity I watched the TV series Glee. The show takes place in a high school setting and the focuses is on the Glee club, which is a club that remakes popular songs and performs them in front of audiences. This show has a very diverse group of people, from every shape, size, ethnic background, religion, and sexuality.
To be an American in this show you can be anyone you want to be. You can believe whatever you want and you can look however you want too. The show consisted of having a Middle Eastern principal and students who are Asian, African American, Caucasian, Jewish, Christian, Gay, Mentally disabled, and physically handicapped. All these different cultural backgrounds, religions, sexualities, and disabilities came together to show just how diverse the United States really is. It shows how just one small school can have such a mixing pot of students and to think the show takes place in Ohio.
The Glee Club consists of all these different diversities too. There are the football players and the cheerleaders mixed in with the artsy and the so called “geeks” and they all get made fun of by their own clicks for being in the Glee Club. In this show there really isn’t one certain way that everyone acts. There are football players that are in the Glee Club that get made fun of by other football players and the same with the rest of them. It shows that just because you are in a certain group doesn’t mean that they all have to act the same or look the same or believe in the same things. There are people in every group who are quite, more outgoing, loud, or just plain annoying. This TV series shows that to be an American you can be anything.
If you were watching this show and had no experience with the United States than you would see that the United States is a very diverse place even though I don’t think that every school is as diverse as the one on the TV show you would get that feeling from watching the show. It illustrates that if you are a certain race or religion that doesn’t mean that you are only friends with other people who are the same race or religion. In this show everyone one wants to make it big with their singing and although a few do, it does show that you should just rely on that to get you through life. When watching this show you will see that although you may have a good voice, that doesn’t mean that you can make a career out of it and if you do it won’t come easy and you should have something else to back you up. Glee portrays the United States as it truly is a diversity of cultures, skin colors, and beliefs.
Was your high school this diverse? If so what did your high school consist of?
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My high school was definitely not this diverse, although I wish it was! My high school was mostly white, middle class people. I didn't know everyone's religion, but if I had to guess, I would say most people were Christian in some form or another. There were some people from different ethnic or racial backgrounds, but not many. Sadly, people in my high school tended to segregate and hang out with people similar to themselves (and I was guilty of this as well), so I didn't get to know our minority students very well.
ReplyDeleteMy high school was no diversity. More than 98 percent of population are Japanese in Japan. Thus, there were no students from different cultures, countries, or backgrounds in my school. When I was a middle school, there were few students from China and Nepal. These students were not very good at Japanese but they had many friends and Japanese stuents, teacher, are friendly to these students.
ReplyDeleteMy high school was not diverse at all. I would say about 98 percent of the student body was white. I could count on my two hands how many kids were of a different race. I graduated with a class of just over 200 people; everyone knew everyone in high school, and (somehow) still do 4 years later. Needless to say, I graduated from River Falls High School.
ReplyDeleteI can answer this one quickly. No. My family was the only family of color that attended the high school I went to. I was both ostracized, in the beginning, and embraced, at the end.
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