Is America ashamed of its diversity? It seems the majority of the television shows and commercials feature a lot of white females. Are we so far gone that we are having to force feed one sided commercials with unrealistic looking white females that usually turn out to be super skinny, blond, and usually portrayed as the bimbo types. We don't celebrate the diversity of what America really is. There's other ethnic backgrounds other than white and this is the sad part of the media because they show you commercials that are tailored to the white audience when some of the users of products that are used other ethnic groups use them as well. There has to be a limit to being force-fed the same ethnic group and demand that we show other ethnic groups.
The magazines you read show more white female models than any other ethnic group. America is the melting pot of diversity, but it doesn't reflect what the media shoves out there. It's disappointing that many of the magazines that are read feature a lot of white females when they're unrealistically skinny and this is why so many girls are resorting to destructive ways to keep up with society's idea of beauty that is white, blond, and thin. What can we as a society do to change that? We should start by writing to magazines demanding that they stop using only white models and use other ethnicities to keep it fair and balanced that there are other ethnicities besides white. You turn on the TV and many of the nighttime dramas like the defunct shows "The OC", Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, and others weren't exactly being too balanced since they showed minorities living in lower class communities or even from the ghetto.
Most of those shows featured all white overly-privileged rich kids from California and other affluent neighborhoods. Again this is highly unrealistic because the only two shows that give a more realistic look to living was Roseanne and The Cosby Show since they showed you how middle class America really lived. Is America ready to have sitcoms or nighttime soaps where the cast is a different ethnic group or mixed race. In the early mid-90s there was a sitcom called True Colors where it featured a black man married to a white woman and his two sons and her mother and daughter, but it was later canceled which clearly explained that America wasn't ready to see an interracial couple on prime time TV in lead roles. At the time this country wasn't going to embrace diversity in TV or print media. Even now it's still hard for some people to accept the fact that this world is very unique in terms of the ethnic backgrounds of so many people and how you now have shows like "George Lopez" where you feature a normal Hispanic-American family headed by a professional working man.
Margaret Cho was the lead in her then semi-successful sitcom All American Girl where the cast was Asian-American, and that too was later canceled since we're so accustomed to viewing shows where the lead actors are white we're not ready to view sitcoms and nighttime soaps with actors in lead roles other than secondary roles who are of different ethnic backgrounds. This also reflects into the fact that half the girls who write into magazines like Seventeen and others are white and that they seem to have all the problems when girls of other races have problems with boys, sex , love, and just general issues with life.
This will be a start to accepting other ethnicities in the media instead of always featuring stuff geared towards a white audience and begin to embrace the diversity in this country that has become a virtual melting pot of ethnic backgrounds, languages, and cultural traditions and to work towards putting more shows out featuring middle class working minorities on TV and sitcoms. Even the soap operas on tv are showing blacks, Hispanics and few Asians in secondary roles where the controlling wealthy family of the show is white. Are whites feeling like they're being slowly pushed out of society since they're becoming the minority? Hollywood and print media are still slow to accept diversity in terms of television shows that are not always geared towards a white audience. There are beautiful African-American, Hispanic-American, and Asian-American women in this world, but that's being overshadowed by the media trying to re-emphasize that white women are the most coveted when in fact they're butchering themselves to look like black and Hispanic women by trying to get the naturally large, full breasts, hips, and other features that African-American and Hispanic women have naturally with no kind of cosmetic surgery.
What would it take for Hollywood and the print media to stop cashing in on white females and to be forced to see there are beautiful Black, Hispanic, and Asian women and that they're just as beautiful and talented. When we embrace diversity in America we'll begin to eliminate the racism that exists in this society.
