Sitcoms are some of the best forms of media that allows families, friends, and people of many backgrounds to sit together, enjoy, laugh, and watch tv. However, the lack of originality in the main characters is almost too predictable. It is easy to find comfort in the funny characters, who
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The Street Fighter franchise has enjoyed success for the last 34 years since its debut in arcades in 1987. It wouldn’t truly take off however until its 1991 sequel “Street Fighter II: The World Warrior”. Of course with a title like that you’d expect a decent amount of representation of
Dance moms is reality television show about young girls training on an elite competition dance team. Although the show has created several young stars, including Jojo Siwa and Maddie Ziegler, it is not always rhinestones, tiaras, and smooth sailing. Abby Lee Miller, the main dance teacher on the show, has
On April 2017, The Simpsons had an episode that had much controversy with one of their main characters, Apu, the Kwik-E-Mart owner. In the episode, Marge is determined to rewrite her favorite childhood book since it is filled with stereotypes. She then starts to read the books to Lisa and
Every culture has their stereotypes ranging from the far fetched negative comments about the groups failures to the praising of their abilities. The most noticeable one’s I come across are the “hard-working Latino”, the “intelligent Asian”, and the “athletic African American”. Although they are set to set a positive imagine
When I was about seven years old, I remember walking into our local Round Table pizza parlor with my soccer teammates and rushing to the arcade area to see all the toys I could buy with my saved up quarters. While my parents would start to order pizza, my teammates
This piece of graffiti, done by Lush, addresses the stereotypes that are often applied to the types of people that do graffiti. Lush believes that normal people think of graffiti artists as black, hip-hop listening, drug-using teenagers. Lush himself disproves this theory. He is a Jewish street artist from Melbourne,