Monday, November 16, 2015

Diversity in Rugrats

In the TV Show/ Films of Rugrats we see the capability of babies living life with each other and their families having fun and growing up together. It isn't until we see the background of each family that we begin to see diversity in the men and women or relatives of each of the children. Tommy, the leader of the babies has a stay at home mom and and his father a Inventor/Architect who struggles to even hold a job while his wife stays at home taking care of Tommy and his friends. Stu Pickles, Tommy's dad has been working in and out as a inventor and could not hold up jobs one after another, we see the diverse of women and men as even Tommy's mom "wears the pants around the house"keeping it in order but not even trying to get a job herself. Later we see the other parents of Tommy's friend all washed up in work some fathers struggling even staying at home, and the mother of Angelica is a lawyer who pushes around Angelica's father as well as she makes more money than him.
Later throughout the series we begin to see more diversity in Race a Black family and a Japanese single mother with children are introduced to Tommy and his friends and the stereotypes began to grow. The Black family appeared to struggle alongside with Tommy's parents but the father had a funny laugh and always made jokes out loud and being the funny one of the group. The Japanese woman with her child was portrayed as her husband being a deadbeat know how women are escorts "Shimushu" in the Japanese culture. All play different roles from diverse in family events, job roles, children growing, environment, it all concluded from the beginning of time how stereotypes and diversity played a big role even in young television shows for children it influenced many young children and families to play the roles of society and continues to grow and lead to diverse roles in men and women in the world.

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