The one thing that stood out to me the most was us talking about the "American Dream". I feel that people have differernt dreams for their futures, but are all ultimnately similar. Most people want to have a good family, with a big house, and make a lot of money, while others may value the smaller things in life instead. The thought of the American Dream is instilled into people's minds mostly by television. They see people on television that are living with all of these luxuries, and they see how happy those people are. That makes them want to have those things in their lives so they can be happy like that too.
Something else I found interesting was in the definition section of class. I found it interesting when we talked about mainstream culture and counter cultures. I always portrayed the people who are part of the counter culture as weirdos, and never really looked deeper into it. I guess if a culture doesn't have those people, then that culture would be pretty boring. Every mainstream culture has a counter culture, which isn't exactly people who are weird, but it's just people who view things differently than "normal" people do. Television is the media that shows this connection. You can turn on pretty much any channel and see the counter cultured people and how they act differently and how they are treated for doing so.
