I was recently watching the fifth season of the reality TV series, "The Bad Girls Club," which is about a group of seven rebellious girls from different personalities, race, and sexual orientation who try to live together in the same house and must abide by the rules. The rules are simple: they need to get along with each other. If any participant inflicts physical harm on another, they must immediately pack their belongings and leave the house for good.
While I was watching this TV show, I increasingly noticed the hegemony that existed within the plot. It became clear to me that the girls with the blonde hair and blue eyes dominated the household, while the minority girls typically, African-Americans and Latinos acted as subordinates and fulfilled their roles as "the followers" in the household. This clearly represents the hypocracy within the media industry and its racial implications even though every participant in the TV series is considered to be given fair game.
Furthermore, when considering the social class of all of these women, it is apparent that most, or infact all the participants belong to the working call background. For example, most of the girls mention the fact that they do not have enough income to treat themselves to go shopping, as well as many of them barely have enough money to feed themselves. Furthermore, most of the girls join the TV series in hopes of becoming a well-known celebrity.
It just proves to show how reality TV shows are represented as low-level media, and displays average, everyday, working-class people of America striving to make it big so that they can have better lives. Hence, what recent reality TV shows portray is the idea of the "American Dream."
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