This week I watched a television show that displays the life of a Cuban American family. Some other ethnicity’s that are portrayed are Canadian, American, Chinese, and African American. One of the theme of the television show is how the white are privileged and how the law takes it more easy on them then on people of color or of different ethnicity.
For example two teen girls (one white, one Latina) smoking pot and getting caught by a police officer at the park. The officer let’s go the white girl with a friendly warning while the Cuban girl gets arrested and taken down to the station. When she asks why she was the only one taken to the station? The officer at the station who happened to Latino told her it was because she was Latina and even if many won’t accept it Latinos will always be treated differently.
Another form of showing how the whites are privileged is by having the family live in a apartment owned by a super rich while guy who is there upstairs neighbor who doesn’t know what it is to work a day in his life do to having everything given to him since birth.
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The way other ethnicity and races are portrayed are in the form of how they are commonly seen. Like the African American women who is very loud when upset pronouncing every word with emphases, and not scared to speak her mind. While the Chinese women has a thick accent and is very strict with high goals from her mother. I would say that this show has diversity, even though it focuses more on the Cubans.
Somethings I noticed to be realistic to today’s problem when it comes to ethnicities is how people group ethnicity’s all as one even though it is incorrect and how they stereotype them. For example I have noticed that when people want to talk about Latinos or Hispanics they always just name one ethnicity, Mexican. Which I have learned to to be disrespectful to hispanics from different origins. For example one of the children from the show gets into a fight because he gets upset that after so much time they always call him Mexican when he clearly has stated that he is Cuban.
I understand why Hispanics are grouped as Mexicans in the United States, Mexicans have a a higher majority than that of Cubans who are a low minority. I also know that many people don’t mean to offend when calling someone Mexican instead of there true ethnicity,but I feel that if one doesn’t know another’s ethnicity or race they can ask or name them under a more neutral broader group like Hispanics.
I truly love this show because even though it brings up topics like how the white privileged, how low minority’s are treated as well as brief political views. It brings it up in a form that is serious but entertaining to watch. I’m not Cuban but I can truly relate by how much work I must put in at times just to achieve my goals at times.
