Blog submission #1
Reality TV
I am not a fan of “reality television”. Never have been and never will be. Why, you ask? Well, first off, it’s not as “real” or “genuine” as we think it is. A majority of the time, the shows themselves is mainly scripted & those involved have to act a certain way while the cameras are rolling. They’re basically getting paid to do a job and that job is basically to act either as a certain cultural stereotype (i.e. the perception of Italian-Americans on “Jersey Shore”) or gender stereotype (i.e. the so-called “gold-diggers” claiming to be looking for love on “The Bachelor”). There was a time however; in the beginning of the reality TV craze, that I would take in a couple episodes of “American Idol” or “The Biggest Loser” but I began to lose interest after awhile, mainly because it was basically it was the same old routine, season after season. Although, there’s a huge part of me that wishes that this was all just a fad that would go away sometime soon, it has somehow turn out to be tremendously popular in society nowadays and has seemingly made a permanent place in pop culture.
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