The Controversy Of Pop Culture

Although pop culture is something that is part of everyday life I always wondered if it is something that is actually necessary for us. Even though it a big part of our lives does it do any harm? Does it contribute to our society in a good way and should it be respected or criticized? For me, I wholeheartedly believe that it should be criticized to the full extent. Pop culture has always been toxic. From its unnatural expectation on women, men, and kids. To its exploitation of children and women, and to its out casting specific groups such as LGBT, minority, and those in poverty. In the recent years, pop culture became more accepted by the general public and became part of our everyday lives.

When it comes to pop culture and how toxic it is

The biggest contributors the unrealistic body standards have to be lingerie companies, with their labels of what a perfect body should and shouldn’t look like. In 2014 Victoria’s Secret got a lot of heat when they released a ‘perfect body’ campaign, a lot of women expressed their dissatisfaction with the companies lack body representation since the company has women of one body type as models. Even celebrities know to be queens in the lingerie business started to protest.The protest showed how pop culture can be used for a good cause. Another contribution to body standards and self-image has to be Social media. With Instagram and Twitter models on the rise. This is worst for young adults ages 18-25 but also effects kids in middle and high school. This is showing its deadly effects since the rate of teens suicide has hit its high in 40 years, between 2007-2015 the suicide rates in teenage girls from ages 15-19 have doubled and in teenage boys, it rose 30 percent. Another problem where the kids of this society are being targeted has to be the exploitation of children, which has always been a sick part of society but has gotten worse in recent years with more shows with kids and kid youtubers. Me personally I knew, that the sexualization of

It's very unlikely seeing minorities in high places on TV, and when they are in high places it's always because of a white man never on their own. I also realized the problem of whitewashing in Hollywood. Recently two Asian actors who were part of the cast of Hawaii 5-0 left the show because they were not getting paid the same amount as their white co-stars. A lot of people also started protesting when Emma Stone was cast to play a woman of Hawaiian and Asian heritage, many people brought up the fact that there is a lot of talented Asian actors who could've played the part and Emma Stone and the directors got a lot of backlash for it. It doesn't make sense that minorities make up 40 percent of the US population yet only in 17 percent of the lead roles in theatrical film(Staff, NPR. “Diversity Sells). I especially feel the effects of how badly minorities are treated because I am an immigrant and minority so in many setting especially academic and work settings I find people underestimating me and getting surprised that I actually know what I am talking about and there are also the people who are shocked that I actually speak English without an accent, some even go the extra length of asking if I was born here and when I say no I came here at the age of 7 they start asking how I learned English so well without and accent, if