Over-Stereotyped On American Reality TV Show

Television shows were made to entertain and/or inform. It was marketed to bring people together on movie night and eat popcorn. When I was growing up the tv show my family most enjoyed together was Fear Factor. It was a stunt/dare reality game show that forced people to face their fears on television. Examples include: being locked in a container with rats, having to eat spiders, or being suspended in the air via helicopter. We would all choose someone who we thought would be victorious based on their appearance and backstory and root for them for the rest of the show. We would feel the contestant’s disgust when they had to eat cockroaches and we would feel their anger and sadness when they were ‘sent home’. Everything on the television screen …show more content…
Maybe for someone that it not from America would consider American television stereotypical as I did with the television in the other countries that I’ve visited.
 When I was in Spain, everyone spoke Spanish and was Spanish and there were not all that many other ethnic groups that I cant remember. This, of course, was quite maddening because of the great deal of time that I had to spend inside of those tour buses with the televisions on board. When I went and visited Morocco, everyone was Arabic and it was so completely hard to understand anything or anyone. There was nothing on the television that I could watch or understand but BBC news. Every time I tried to flip through the channels in my hotel room i could usually find something that resembled our reality television such as Survivor Spain or Gandia Shore. Which are both adaptations of American reality television shows that are called Survivor and Jersey shore. It is obvious that there is not that many differences in television around the world, and the share the similarities of