Trand Analysis #1

My Sweet Sixteen. This show should be renamed "My Sixteenth Birthday Party that Cost More than a Wedding and Makes the Society I Live in and Myself Look Ridiculous." This show not only gives teenagers unrealistic ideas about what is appropriate parent to child relationships, but also shows peers being self-centered, spoiled, and down right cruel to those around them.
First the attitude of the birthday girl or boy on this show is a horrible example to any American youth. They it believe it is their own right to have the car, entertainment, guest list, venue, not mentioning outfit, decorations, or preparations like invitations at their one and only sweet sixteen party. I am sure this causes arguments around the country about other children wanting their parents to bend every possible way so they can have the birthday party of the century that will set their parents back ONLY tens of thousands of dollars. For those in this country whose socio-economical class makes a birthday party like this out of the question it creates even a larger gap between the rich and poor in this country by highlighting the extravagant spending habits of the rich when it may be hard for some to make ends meet each month. Speaking of spending habits, spending ridiculous amounts of money on unnecessary and defiantly unpractical things is only going to cause our country's habit of wasting resources to worsen. Globally we must be more aware of what we are valuing as a community and how we are setting up our society to live in future generations. While many I'm sure will argue, My Sweet Sixteen has nothing to do about the nation's economy, I beg to differ. It is teaching children that money can be blown on anything desire that pops into your head and that as a sixteen year old you deserve to have that. Finally the behaviors that happen at the actual birthday party are unacceptable. Dancing is grinding on one another and then the ranting of vulgar language at guest who were uninvited to a party of literally hundreds of adolescents. The whole idea of the show is outrageous, granted that is probably one of the main reasons they get so good of ratings, the show shows a lifestyle that is so bizarrely out of the ordinary American's that people are intrigued and adolescents are fascinated.