Television today portrays Americans in an exceedingly stereotypical manner, a common scenario of this would be a show about teens in high school, showing several stereotypical characters such as popular girls, nerds, athletes, etc. Another portraying of messages of Americans through media is music. For example most popular songs on the radio are about partying, getting money, or any other type of personal gain. Another example of messages through media would be the internet, people today can interact with millions of people across the globe and exchange ideas or information creating a network of people always connected. These type of media creates a desire for the youth to live a life similar to the portrayed life created in the songs and shows of today's media.
The typical American teenager in T.V shows seem to have a life loathed by everyone who watches it. There is no set category for every person in life yet in today's media that is how everything is portrayed, a person is popular, an outcast, rich, or poor, never normal. This sets the standards for today's Americans, they believe in order to be liked by everyone they must be like the characters in the shows they have seen. Nobody wants to be the outcast shown in the shows of today so the try to be like the most fitting character that suites their wanted way of life. This creates a population of people trying to live the life they see portrayed in today's media as the perfect life.
There is not a popular song today that does not make a person envy the personal gain of those in the song. For example when an artist sings about partying or “not having a care in the world”, typically a person envy’s that, and would want to live the same kind of life. This creates the feeling of unfairness and would set out to change their lives to match that of the life being portrayed in the song. Another example would be of an artist singing about his new love and how much she amazes him and how they will be...