Advertising in Hawaii

I got to Hawaii about a week ago now and have realized that advertisements are a lot different here then at home. There is a lot of advertisement directed towards Hawaiians and not as much towards other races. There is some since a lot of the sales in Hawaii are based on tourism. But I just thought it was kind of cool how a lot of the things are different here. Some of the things that are different include food, music, and language. Obviously as soon as you go somewhere else in the world everything changes when it comes to diversity in the media, but I just thought it was cool. Have any of you huys gone somewhere where the advertising and media was based on a different culture other then your own?

Call Of Duty 2

I recently have been playing the new Call of Duty. I know I recently had posted about diversity in video games, but I felt this was worth writing about. In the game you have generals and other authority figures. I find that there are litte to no authority figures that arent white males. I dont know if there is a reason for this but I started to realize it more and more throughout the game. I wondered what was keeping the poeple that made the game from making the head authority figures more culturally diverse. Do you play any video games that are like this, and have the same lack of diversity?

George Lopez

I dont watch too much television but came across a show that kind of made me think, at least in terms of this class. George Lopez is now hosting a late night show. This made me think a little to if there has ever really been a minority hosting any late night shows. I cant really think of any. I mean some of the big name sthat come to mind when I think of late night shows are Lettermen, Leno, and Obrien. Thes eare all white males. I nver really thiought of it before. Do you think that there is a reason why there hasnt been any minority late night hosts in the past. or maybe there has been and I stand corrected. let me know what you guys think.

Sons of Anarchy

I have been watching this new show, Sons of Anarchy. Its actually really good and I enjoy ity a lot. When I came to my blog to find something to write about I was stumped for a few before coming up with this show. When I tried to think about how the show can relate to this calss i finally realized it. In the show there are different biker clubs. The sons of anarchy and like a few more that they have shown so far. The sons of anarchy are almost 100 percent white. The other groups that they have shown are black and mexican. They also have a nazi group that is involve din the show. This is a pretty diverse group of people involved in one show. I was surprised how diverse it was. Do any of you guys watch any shows that have either a lot or barely any diversity in it?

Diversity in CMA

Well, I was listening to the radio today on the way to school and I heard them talking about the Country Music Awards that had occurred the previous night. They were talking about how Taylor Swift won like everything she was nominated for. They were also making fun of Kanye because of what he did at the VMAs. It made me realize that there is little to no diversity in country music. I mean I dont care too much because I hate country music to begin with. But I tried to think of other music genres that have less diversity and couldn't think of one. Maybe its just me but am I wrong. Is there any cultural diversity in Country Music?

CNN, Latinos in America

I was fliiping through the channels theother night and found this show on CN called Latinos in America. This is a story about a family, the Garcias. They consist of a mom a dad, and two children. The two parents started in New York City where they lived since they had arrived in America. Then they decided to move to Georgia where they would raise a family. where they lived in New York was a complete Latino neighborhood with a lot of Latino culture in all types of different ways. They complain about how their kids are growing up with little to no Latino culture in their life. This kind of annoys me. I understand how the parents would want some Latino culture in their life, but they need to underdstand that their kids are 100 percent american. This is their culture for the most part now. They arent going to be 100 latino in everyday life. They are going to do and like the things that surround them and the people they surround themselves with. If they wanted their children to have Latino culture that bad, they would of stayed in New York.