Fresh Off The Boat Tv Show Analysis

Two shows that I watch on television are Fresh off the Boat and Pretty Little Liars. Fresh off the Boat is a comedy program about an Asian family that has moved to the United States in hopes of achieving the American Dream. Throughout the series you follow the life of Eddie the eldest son and see all the challenges he faces by being thrown into a completely different culture than that of his own. He quickly becomes friends with boys from several different backgrounds and begins to adjust to his new surroundings. ("About Fresh Off the Boat TV Show Series," n.d.) I believe this show reflects the diversity of the United States fairly well because while it does shows Eddie and his family as Asian most of the people he goes to school with are white with a few black …show more content…
This show follows the lives of four teenage girls and their boyfriends as they try to survive high school while avoiding the strikes of a mystery character called “A” that is determined to makes them look guilty of murder. ("Pretty Little Liars Episodes, Blogs and News - Freeform.go.com," n.d.) Most of the show takes place in the girls’ high school so we get a good idea of the diversity of the students. This show is well diverse and though several of the main characters are white four of the main character actually have pretty diverse ethnicities. Tyler Blackburn ethnicity is English, Yugoslavian/Croatian, Welsh, German, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Czech, Swedish, Cherokee Native American, Comanche Native American. Troian Bellisario ethnicity is Italian, Serbian (father), African-American, Louisiana Creole (African, French) (mother). Shay Mitchell ethnicity is Irish, Scottish, evidently some Spanish (father), Filipino, some Spanish (mother). Janel Parrish ethnicity is European (father), Chinese (mother). ("RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: The Limbs and Branches of the Smith Family Tree,"