How do the families selected by Jane for the television series round out, challenge, or reinforce the stereotypes about the American family?
So far in My Year of Meats, Jane has been picking families of all different types for the television production My American Wife! America is known for being the home of a variety of people, with different views, ideas, ethnicity's, race, sexuality, personalities etc. Jane only feels that it is right to express to the Japanese who are watching this that America is open and sharing to all cultures and types of people and families.
The first family that Jane considers using in My American Wife! is Miss Helen and Mr. Purcell. The reason she decides to investigate this family is because of the difference of them compared to the previous families, like the Flowers. The Flowers family was the type of family that is the stereotype of America. Good, wholesome, happy white family. That family tended to reinforce the stereotype that all families are that way. Whereas Miss Helen and Mr. Purcell are completely opposite.
Miss Helen and Mr. Purcell is a poor, African American family with a different culture background. This tends to challenge the stereotype of American families. Jane was hoping that this family would be able to be used in the series to help the Japanese understand the differences all throughout America, and not judge. Unfortunately, "John" would not allow that kind of family, with the wrong kind of meat, to be in the series.
Another family that Jane decides to shoot is the Bukowsky's. The Bukowsky's are a wholesome family who tries hard. The daughter of the family got into a terrible accident, which left the family struggling to support their crippled child. Mrs. Bukowsky losing her job, while her husband did not have one to begin with, really made them suffer. Incredibly the young girl begins to recover and come back to life, with the help of the community. The reason Jane chose this family was to give the audience a positive outlook on life. Terrible things may happen, but if you have a positive outlook on things, something is bound to come together for you. That is just what happened with the Bukowsky's, which eventually led them to be stars on My American Wife!
It shows that Jane is not afraid of what could happen to her. She is willing to sacrifice a show that is against the TV productions rules, to show Japan a different side of America.
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Shay,
I agree with you that Jane chooses the Bukowsky family because their hard work and hopeful perspective is inspiring. In that sense, the Bukowsky family is like the Martinez family where the husband continues to work hard and be positive in spite of having lost his hand in a work-related accident.
Notice that the Flowers family is white and middle-class, unlike the Purcell family, which is black and working class. However, Jane chooses them not only because they are marginalized, but because they have strong religious values and ties to the community, just like the Bukowsky family.
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