- 12 May 2007 20:18
#1203847
...the way that your ethnic group is represented on television and film?
As a European blue-eyed male, I don't like the way my group is constantly depicted in films as being the primary characters. This leads to a false sense of euro homogeneity which I don't experience in my daily life, where most of my friends are Moslems from other continents.
I simply can't relate the "euro" on TV and in film to myself.
What I don't like about this misrepresentation is the way it makes people who see me for the first time think that I am "like" the euros they see on TV - the ones who are always rich, suburban, shallow, silly, and incredibly materialistic and self-confident in a childish way.
What about you? How do you like your TV reflection?
As a European blue-eyed male, I don't like the way my group is constantly depicted in films as being the primary characters. This leads to a false sense of euro homogeneity which I don't experience in my daily life, where most of my friends are Moslems from other continents.
I simply can't relate the "euro" on TV and in film to myself.
What I don't like about this misrepresentation is the way it makes people who see me for the first time think that I am "like" the euros they see on TV - the ones who are always rich, suburban, shallow, silly, and incredibly materialistic and self-confident in a childish way.
What about you? How do you like your TV reflection?