The Influence Of Minorities In Television

The cast in most popular television programs are all white, while leaving out the minorities. When popular white based shows do show a minority on screen it is important on how they are portrayed. Television is seen by a wide range of audiences and when television gives us an inaccurate ideas of minorities, it may impact viewers indirectly. Watching the television programs called, Seinfeld and 2 Broke Girls made me noticed how the portrayals of minorities have changed over times. As well, they have the similarities and differences on how minorities are shown, same with the commercials. While the lack of minorities in television programs, they give inaccurate ideas about them. After watching Seinfeld I can say that the show is mainly white dominate. The cast are all white and it takes place in New York City. New York City is a very diverse place, so I expected to see a great amount of minorities in this show, which I rarely saw any. Throughout the episodes, I only spotted a few minorities at certain scenes. I spotted maybe only two asians, but the most I saw were African Americans. I saw these minorities at …show more content…
The only commercials I really saw these minorities stand out were chocolate commercials. They were also given no dialogue, just a voice explaining how good the chocolate is. Also, not just only white people go out to buy Subway, Burger King, have insurance problems, and many others that we all humans experience. As watching these commercials with mainly white people made me come to the conclusion how unfair television is and stereotypically they can be. For example, many commercials just made white people be the big star while they show a quick glimpse of minorities. Making it seem that whites are better, more important, and just superior over others. Some commercials just don 't want to put minorities in the spotlight because it is all about white