Hotlzman
“Until very recently, depictions of families and workers and neighborhoods on prime time television have been predominantly white and middle class. Most comedies and dramas have been a reflection of the standards, values, customs, lifestyles, family patterns, and physical manifestations of this group. For a variety of reasons that we will explore in this chapter, prime time television has historically reflected the standards of the dominant culture and portrayed it as “normal.”” -Holtzman With the fact that until recently, television characters have been mostly from the white race, which is the dominant culture, the audience will come to believe that the character’s lifestyle is normal, and therefore, the white race’s lifestyle as a whole is “normal.” Television characters, dominant culture, white race, lifestyle, normal Television characters- characters on t.v.