Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Ethnicity in Sitcoms

3 Sitcoms that include people of different ethnicity:Scrubs, Fresh Prince of Bell Air, Big Bang Theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH7_H05aeiY
In this clip of "scrubs", we see Turk getting proved wrong about rap by Elliott and Molly two white, blonde women. The two girls give an in depth, detailed lesson of rap lyrics and what the slang terms mean. Normally, we would associate the black person to know the most about rap, due to the stereotype that most black people listen to rap music.

In the beginning of the clip, this is what we see with Turk explaining what "ho-ho's" are in an articulated manner, followed up, "its a black thing Bru" This is what the audience would expect, a black person explaining a predominantly black genre of music to a white man. However, Turk is then proven wrong by the two girls, in the same manner that Turk explained the lyrics.


               

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