It's not an exaggeration that US propaganda is insanely powerful.
As someone who has never been to America, growing up the only thing I had to judge American life were sitcoms where the "average Joe" was depicted as having a gaint two story house and having a ton of expensive shit on a single income.
It wasn't until Malcolm in the Middle that a non-rich family was even depicted as the norm.
"We were saving that money for our kids college" always confused me as a kid though, my thought was always "But wait, what if they can't afford to save for college? Do that just not get to go? That doesn't seem right. That would be too unfair."
Also I never thought about how little media shows families realistically. But even then it's still a father raising three kids and providing for a stay at home wife which is....lol. Maybe it was doable pre-2008 though.
Lois isn't a stay-at-home mother, despite having 4 children, she works part-time at a large pharmacy store and some other gigs. I believe it also talks about how despite having a college degree, she is unable to find better work due to long gaps of unemployment due to pregnancy and child-rearing.
I mean its still possible but its like the person has to be petit bourgeois to make it. A business owner like auto repair or car dealership or (maybe) dentist.
It's just wild to me to think that, you know, the Chinese government is too fucking busy TAKING CARE OF ITS CITIZENS to even care to spread vile propaganda about the US like we do about every other country. We'll, maybe it's not "wild", because even if other countries fabricated lies about the US they would probably be accurate lol
It's not an exaggeration that US propaganda is insanely powerful.
As someone who has never been to America, growing up the only thing I had to judge American life were sitcoms where the "average Joe" was depicted as having a gaint two story house and having a ton of expensive shit on a single income.
It wasn't until Malcolm in the Middle that a non-rich family was even depicted as the norm.
"We were saving that money for our kids college" always confused me as a kid though, my thought was always "But wait, what if they can't afford to save for college? Do that just not get to go? That doesn't seem right. That would be too unfair."
Kids growing up watching Disney channel is the most powerful propaganda tool of the cia.
Also I never thought about how little media shows families realistically. But even then it's still a father raising three kids and providing for a stay at home wife which is....lol. Maybe it was doable pre-2008 though.
Lois isn't a stay-at-home mother, despite having 4 children, she works part-time at a large pharmacy store and some other gigs. I believe it also talks about how despite having a college degree, she is unable to find better work due to long gaps of unemployment due to pregnancy and child-rearing.
Oh shit that's right I totally forgot! Damn that is pretty surprising considering the time it came out
Malcolm in the Middle is down right Marxist in its portrayal of class antagonisms compared to literally every other sitcom.
I mean its still possible but its like the person has to be petit bourgeois to make it. A business owner like auto repair or car dealership or (maybe) dentist.
It's just wild to me to think that, you know, the Chinese government is too fucking busy TAKING CARE OF ITS CITIZENS to even care to spread vile propaganda about the US like we do about every other country. We'll, maybe it's not "wild", because even if other countries fabricated lies about the US they would probably be accurate lol
There was Roseanne, but I don't know if that was popular outside the US (ignoring Roseanne Barr currently and the "revival")
I keep trying to think of who/what Roseanne is and my mind just starts playing the drum beat from Rosanna by Toto.
It was around but I think it was before my time