Today people are represented in the media according to their beauty, age, hair, make up, race, size, gender, and so on. From infants to the elderly media socially constructs how people are suppose to look. Media basically has people believing they're living the perfect fairytale life style. Men are suppose to be really muscular, handsome nice hair, tall. Women are looked at to be the perfect shape below size 2, long hair, breasts, and A LOT more. Families are seen as man and woman happily married, kids, pets, the kids get everything they want cause their parents have the better paying jobs, and they pretend to be happy all the time. We all know no one is happy all the time. And life really is not as perfect as the media portrays it to be.

You can say people of color are misrepresented in the media, but there are few other races misrepresented too. For instance, there's the "Fresh Prince" and the "Kardashian" show where families are wealthy and have the big houses, maids or butlers, and live the "perfect" lifestyle. There are shows such as "Roseanne" and the "Tyler Perry Shows" that show how some families struggle and go through series of daily troubles, but real love and bonding is there. But media does misrepresent race cause you rarely see different varieties of race in a sitcom. All of these show above have just one race in each show.

Why cant we believe the way we look is the way we are suppose to look? We should be happy with our appearance. Many people would love to still be alive no matter how they look. People now a days breath everyday and would rather complain about satisfying other human beings who will never feel perfect about themselves. Why cant we accept the fact that no one lives the fairytale lifestyle? no family, individual, superstar, or not will ever be completely happy with the way their life is. People of different race should come together more often. Afterall, our ancestors did fight for segregation to end many years ago. However, people seem as if segregation is how they like it.