In small period, we continued watching through Generation M, and were introduced to the story of the Fiji islands. A study went out to investigate the effects of the media to this isolated island culture, and they were surprised to find that, in a culture where large women were a sign of beauty, many women thought that they were too fat and needed to lose weight in order to look good. This was only about 3 months after TV was introduced to their culture, providing evidence that media does have a large effect on what we believe in.
However, I want to bring up a question. I realize that this documentary is creating discussion, but our reason for watching documentaries is to answer our reflection question, which is about why discrimination still happens to this day. I wonder, what does this documentary have to do with civil rights? All I see is a man criticizing the beauty market, but is there a way to link this to long-standing stereotyping of women in America?
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