Racial and Fender Diversity

The television show I will be talking about is "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody". Why I chose this show is because it shows a young white girl who works at the hotel and is poor. She is low income, but works very hard on her job. Her name is Maddie and she is a very bright girl. I thought it was interesting because most stereotype for young white girls would be a rich dumb blonde who does not have to do anything, but have fun. On the other hang there is a young Asian girl name London, who is rich and not very bright. Her father is the owner of the hotel and spoils London. She is able to get whatever she wants and whenever she wants it. Another stereotype is that Asians are suppose to be really smart, but London here isn't so bright at all.

This show is pretty diverse with races, since it is not all about white people. Usually, shows would have white people in majority, but in this show they are very diverse. They have other Disney stars that enter the show like Raven Baxter from That's So Raven. Raven is an African American who is trying to make it in the big picture with her fashion designs. I believe that diversity is important because everyone is different. We should not target on only one race because the audience that watch these shows are diverse. 

I'm not sure did they purposely put the London as the dumb rich girl and Maddie as the smart poor girl, but it did open my eyes as a child when I watched this. This show started in 2005 and that was when I was still in elementary school. Even as a child I knew the stereotypes, so it is important to the media, since I realized it as a child. If one child notices this then I'm sure there are more children out there that will realize it too.