This is also why I hate Hallmark movies
OH GOODNESS I HOPE I DON'T OFFEND ANYONE D:
So. Know what I got as a gift? One of those "Inspirational Stories that will Inspire you with the True Tales of Courageous Families and blah blah blah." Why. Every single book is the same. I mean, I was okay when I got Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul, but I was young and impressionable. And the stories were a bit more varied. BUT STILL.
What I really hate about these kind of books is that every family mentioned is pretty much a white, American (read: no strong foreign roots), Christian, rural/small-town setting, with every relative living in the U.S. (not that there's anything wrong with that. I think you're all nice people. Mostly. If I knew more families like that in real life, I probably wouldn't have a strong enough opinion to write this.) What annoys me is that the writers/editors believe that only these kind of families exist or have the right to have inspirational stories.
Forget the lack of interracial families in fiction and these kinds of books, there's a lack of immigrant families or first-generation Americans. Really, can we have a story with immigrant parents not about overcoming poverty and racism? My family is pretty middle-class, and there are far more interesting events and conflicts about Polish/Ecuadorian culture vs. American culture than what I usually see on television. The America I see everyday is neither purely poverty-stricken and gang-ridden nor suburban and relatives alllllll over the states and whatnot.
Maybe I don't get out enough. I'm just irritated at the portrayal of American families we see often. Maybe I should write my own memoir about growing up in a mixed neighborhood and the hardships brought upon me by my peers to blend into American pop cultures. I dunno. This is why 90% of my oc's are nonwhite and illiterate in popular culture of their world. PLEASE Hallmark, stop making movies about the same white, American family with a family business who complains about their comfortable lives with no culture shock or uneasiness. Please.
*goes to surf internet*
So. Know what I got as a gift? One of those "Inspirational Stories that will Inspire you with the True Tales of Courageous Families and blah blah blah." Why. Every single book is the same. I mean, I was okay when I got Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul, but I was young and impressionable. And the stories were a bit more varied. BUT STILL.
What I really hate about these kind of books is that every family mentioned is pretty much a white, American (read: no strong foreign roots), Christian, rural/small-town setting, with every relative living in the U.S. (not that there's anything wrong with that. I think you're all nice people. Mostly. If I knew more families like that in real life, I probably wouldn't have a strong enough opinion to write this.) What annoys me is that the writers/editors believe that only these kind of families exist or have the right to have inspirational stories.
Forget the lack of interracial families in fiction and these kinds of books, there's a lack of immigrant families or first-generation Americans. Really, can we have a story with immigrant parents not about overcoming poverty and racism? My family is pretty middle-class, and there are far more interesting events and conflicts about Polish/Ecuadorian culture vs. American culture than what I usually see on television. The America I see everyday is neither purely poverty-stricken and gang-ridden nor suburban and relatives alllllll over the states and whatnot.
Maybe I don't get out enough. I'm just irritated at the portrayal of American families we see often. Maybe I should write my own memoir about growing up in a mixed neighborhood and the hardships brought upon me by my peers to blend into American pop cultures. I dunno. This is why 90% of my oc's are nonwhite and illiterate in popular culture of their world. PLEASE Hallmark, stop making movies about the same white, American family with a family business who complains about their comfortable lives with no culture shock or uneasiness. Please.
*goes to surf internet*