Is MEDIA forming a "MASS-MIND" in the USA??
Behavior of Immigrants in the USA often changes markedly by Generation, as their "New Life" here "evolves". Great stresses can arise between parents and children as the "Old Ways" are cast off by the young and parental authority is challenged. This phenomenon has been present for more than a century; but it is taking on bizarre twists as traditional home life changes from that of "Ozzie and Harriet" to "Modern Family".
Its not as funny as Television would coax us to believe. Recall the radom shooting of young, white, blond, women in Santa Barbara, some months back? Details were skimpy, but some Reporters revealed what was written on the Social Media Site of the Shooter. His "twists" revealed mixed racial, generational, socio-sexual, as well as gender strands. There was a definite "skin-color" conflict in the mind of the shooter.
As we all can attest, MEDIA, maddeningly reports "News" from a nearly standard "script". The Network, Channel, or "Talking Head" may vary, but the words we hear, and the pictures we see, don't vary much! A lot of this is due to the fact that the "tallking head" does nothing more than "read the Prompter". They often "stumble" in doing even that simple task. They don't hesitate to interject their personal opinions, along with the script they read.
Its my contention that all of this is to engender a MASS MIND-SET that will come in handy for Politicians, Commercial Interests, and Public Institutions. MEDIA is a major factor in "teaching" English to Immigrants who do not come from English-Speaking regions and do not speak English. Often the Children within a family, will pick up the language most rapidly; and then "teach" their parents. Many homes keep tensions between the old and new languages, and add those tensions to others within the household. Gender variants exist among those tensions, with Daughters expected to be more "compliant".
No matter how eagerly, this "kool-aid" in consumed; another tension can develop within the newcomer, (and, similarly, among members of older, "permanently marginalized" groups).
That tension is born in a suspicion that "becoming" one of the Masses, will NOT permit those whose skin is not white to enjoy full benefits of "Assimilation". In fact, "Assimilationists" run the risk of becoming permanently "INVISIBLE": -- a condition in which they are permanently seen, but never heard, nor recognized, in ways that are fully human. What they consume from Television will never reflect their lives!
Stay Vigilant! If you allow "others" to "define" you, or capture your aspirations for their socio-economic benefit; you could find yourself in a strange, "asylum" that confers "invisibility", and "zombie" socio-political status. It can happen to individuals, and to groups of people.
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