American Values essay
How American Family Values have change on the last 20 years
The values of the cozy mid-80’s American family entertained us and sold us refrigerators, cars, and cigarettes, but they were the exception, not the rule. This was the world of the white suburban minority that exerted media dominance over the rest of the nation. Televison took them into our living rooms, convincing us this was the American family. In reality, this was the world of "separate but equal" family values. This was the world of living on the right or the wrong side of the tracks family values. These were the values that put minorities in the from of the bus. These were never the actual family values of the period. They were the values we were sold by the newly developing television industry.
The nostalgic family values of the 80s are the subject of legend and myth. During the mid-Twentieth Century middle and upper class White Americans prospered. This is what is depicted in Life Magazine, The Dinah Shore Show, and Ed Sullivan's Sunday night TV extravaganza. Minority Americans, poor Americans, single Americans valued survival, not prosperity, and struggled against the glamorized stereotype for opportunity.
Family values change because times and families change. Those who so fondly point to the "Happy Days" as the symbol of American family values fail to consider the majority of American families of the time period. In the real world of the nostalgic 80s, most families did not live in three-bedroom suburban homes and drive new automobiles.
Have all heard it said many times before, “Oh well, times have changed, and we must change along with them." The title of this article alone is enough to make one laugh a sarcastic snicker. The truth of the matter is that as much as people seem to have a need to believe it to be so, times do not change. People change.
People have become more complacent in these modern days. Anything goes, and if anyone dares speak out in disagreement, the politically
The values of the cozy mid-80’s American family entertained us and sold us refrigerators, cars, and cigarettes, but they were the exception, not the rule. This was the world of the white suburban minority that exerted media dominance over the rest of the nation. Televison took them into our living rooms, convincing us this was the American family. In reality, this was the world of "separate but equal" family values. This was the world of living on the right or the wrong side of the tracks family values. These were the values that put minorities in the from of the bus. These were never the actual family values of the period. They were the values we were sold by the newly developing television industry.
The nostalgic family values of the 80s are the subject of legend and myth. During the mid-Twentieth Century middle and upper class White Americans prospered. This is what is depicted in Life Magazine, The Dinah Shore Show, and Ed Sullivan's Sunday night TV extravaganza. Minority Americans, poor Americans, single Americans valued survival, not prosperity, and struggled against the glamorized stereotype for opportunity.
Family values change because times and families change. Those who so fondly point to the "Happy Days" as the symbol of American family values fail to consider the majority of American families of the time period. In the real world of the nostalgic 80s, most families did not live in three-bedroom suburban homes and drive new automobiles.
Have all heard it said many times before, “Oh well, times have changed, and we must change along with them." The title of this article alone is enough to make one laugh a sarcastic snicker. The truth of the matter is that as much as people seem to have a need to believe it to be so, times do not change. People change.
People have become more complacent in these modern days. Anything goes, and if anyone dares speak out in disagreement, the politically