Can t.v. show survive without stereotypes?

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Can t.v. show survive without stereotypes?

Answer 1

TV can survive without stereotypes, but it is amazing how really important and powerful they are. If you turn on Fox News, you have debates between stereotypical conservatives and Liberals. Dave Chapelle even said he made a living off of stereotypes.  I think we are culturally paranoid and hypersensitive - although that dynamic is always changing. In the 1980s, I felt that slightly less TV was based on stereotyping - but this was bred of ignorance/unawareness more than anything else.  As we have become more aware of the experience of people Other than us, have been exposed to multicultural training, sensitivity awareness, etc, we have paradoxically become more stereotypical - an unintended side effect. Who in Gen X was afraid of the ghetto before Menace II Society came out? The movie was meant to educate, but instead inspired fear and foolish imitation (don't get me wrong - it educated also; one of my all-time favorite films). Ten years ago, I felt differently, but I am starting to think that colorblindness is the way to go. "Cultural studies" made me more paranoid, stereotypical of Others - I had to unlearn many things in order to be able to relate to people in my life as human beings again. I was unintentionally reminding my black friends that they were black. It's late, and I'm not as lucid as I usually am.

Answer 2

i think it CANT. tv shows are built on stereotypes. like for instance FRIENDS...white people aren't all like that, but it chose to protray a certain type of "white." IF there wasn't a stereotype, people would not know how to relate with it, or not to relate with it