The US media is eager to portray the underbelly of white American's lives with reality shows about teen pregnancy, beauty pageants and competition dance. Most of the shows that run with topics like that in place hold a predominately White "cast". In effort to save their behinds, the US media is portraying black women as powerful characters on cable networks that get more exposure to the mass population to great effect to audiences and women. Other narratives are more commonly seen in non cable channels. Many shows showcase the "weird" traditions of mainly white Americans, shows that discuss one Mormon families ever growing family, an affluent redneck family that sells duck calls and many that deal with the pressures of being a white celebrity. The major issues that revolve around the shows detailing white American's pastimes and values, is that many viewers don't think that other Americans or people of other countries can do what they see the people doing on TV can do. The biggest problem is that US media is only now just beginning to represent more than white people in TV, movies, on the covers of magazines and even in advertisements.

So many other narratives are getting tossed out the window to make way for more reality shows featuring how great white people are. There are shows like "Scandal" and "How to Get Away with Murder" that feature life as a black woman, but hardly any other shows are featured with narratives with influential and powerful black women. The call for more narratives about different cultures with people actually representing that heritage is needed in order to encourage people to truly be themselves.

Since the beginning of cinema the portrayal of different cultures has been a struggle for Hollywood to accurately capture. Looking at the early attempts, films were marred with "blackface", as well as "yellowface". Popular film stars of an early time like Mickey Rooney Judy Garland and even Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra, all perpetuated obscene racial portrayals. Most depictions of Egyptian and Greek heroes have been miscast and many don't bat an eye at it. Even in current cinema we have seen "black face" portrayed by Dan Aykroyd in the 80s and even in the late 2000s by Robert Downey Jr. In the 2010s. It feels as though American's saw absolutely nothing wrong with even the recent event of Robert Downey Jr.'s blackface portrayal and that was in 2008. He received little backlash and continues to be seen as his other popular character Iron Man, but it's hard to shake the idea of him portraying blackface in a time when most know that that is wrong still happened. In the past five years we have seen race miscasting in movies more frequently than in TV shows that can be shot down immediately.

Movies like 2015's "Aloha" in which an Asian main character was played by a white actress (Emma Stone) that had absolutely no resemblance or Asian lineage or in "Pan", a Native American role that went to Rooney Mara. The biggest case of 2015 racial miscasting was that of Johnny Depp's Tonto in "The Lone Ranger" film adaptation. In 2016 we await the white casting of Tilda Swinton in an Asian comic book characters part in Marvel's upcoming "Doctor Strange". The list goes on and on with just how many high profile actors have gotten away with cultural insensitivity. Even remade movies that come from a foreign counterpart are recast with a white cast which for most films can make it by but with films that race or culture is specific to the plot, it makes the film hard to be taken seriously when redone with white actors much like 2017's live action "Ghost in the Shell" with Scarlett Johansson playing the main character of this anime as a white actress not as an Asian actress should be.

The historical events that also get whitewashed like the 1969 Stonewall riots in 2015's "Stonewall" with a fictional white gay man is at the helm of pride revolution when in all actuality it was Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans activist. The injustices that Hollywood keeps committing is the fuel for them to keep creating inaccuracies. People unfortunately do not use their voices or words to tell how the truly feel about situations that occur in current times, the need for more portrayals of cultures accurately is crucial to the US media's growth as well as the acceptance cultures should have but still don't hold in this time and age. The need for acceptance and change is now.