Was There a Piece of Media that Nailed Your Culture?

[abigaillmartin]

American culture is also very very very diverse and very vast. So I can’t pinpoint exactly what portrays American culture perfectly.

I honestly have no idea.

[abigaillmartin]

Wait I got one. Especially for us living in Idaho. Which I am.

Napoleon Dynamite.

[Nugtown]

L4D2
Shame there won't be a thing like it ever again.

[thepenmonster]

The Trailer Park Boys is eerily correct

[AmazementComics]

The Simpsons were REALLY ahead of their time. Episodes like Homer’s Phobia, The Cartridge Family, Much Apu About Nothing, Lisa’s Pony. The writers were really brave to bring controversial and sensitive topics to light. While being fair by showing both sides of the argument and all whilst keeping the show funny and lighthearted. I miss the oldies they don’t make episodes like those anymore.

Anyone who thinks it was a show for kids didn’t pay attention to all the social commentary (or was just opposed to it), but they satirized a lot of issues in a really broad way. Take Homer’s Phobia. At the end of it, Homer still isn’t over his homophobia really, he likes John, despite his sexuality. A liberal viewer can watch and see a brilliant skewering of bigoted views, while a conservative viewer can watch and agree that individuals are fine but they don’t have to love “the gays”. That message might not hold up so well today, but to broadcast that across the US in the ‘90s was pretty radical.

[NickRowler]

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[GumshoeComix]

I've yet to see a movie about Italian Americans that isn't about the mafia or Mario ;w;
That being said Mafia II was fantastic, they really did their research

[VividRunning]

Sadly, no. My culture is never represented, for some unknown reason. Lol.

[BlairFujin]

The only piece of foreign media that had some Polish stuff in it I can think of is that time terf queen added a Polish cleaner to one of her books who had a made up name that made no sense and sounded more Russian to be perfectly honest and was confused about a word in English that is pretty much the same in Polish, so, yeah...

[darthmongoose]

Oh god... yeah, Polish people are so under-represented in British media, even though they're probably our biggest non-British white ethnic group? Like Polish people are such a big part of Britain, practically any mid-sized town has at least one shop that sells Polish food and stuff. That passage by the Terf-queen was just cringe... Why make the one Polish character a cleaner? (I feel like most of the Polish people I know personally work as Designers...)

[irresponsiblepics]

Anything by Shane Meadows depicts urban British culture quite accurately. Especially 'This is England'. The 80s in the UK for example was not all neon.

[sushy00]

I don't feel like my culture is represented in foreign media much

[TheLemmaLlama]

Does internet culture count? Because What Happens Next totally nails it

[Lensing]

I´m german and you find a lot of media which only portraits german culture with a lot
of (ugly) stereotypes. They did a good job in Breaking Bad though, especially the
german workers who built the meth lab

[RedLenai]

Not gonna lie, as an Argentinian seeing the obligatory scene of the superhero kissing the girl with Nada Personal by Soda Estereo was peak for me, besides obviously all the hints to latinamerican music and the Chapulín Colorado.

To me not only I really liked it by how well arranged the music was, the structure wasn't even like... "typical average hero movie" but the nostalgic kind of superhero movie. When the neighborhood came to help the family, offered food and such, it really reminded me of the train scene in the original Spiderman movie, which I grew up with.

Argentina is very weird in culture, there is so much stuff mixed up, I personally get satisfied with the average Latinamerican representation that we all latinos can agree is good or at least a stereotype that we in fact know in real life, but when I focus on my own country, especially local tv shows or movies...
They don't feel "Argentinian" enough, is like its lacking something and usually that missing thing I can see it in people that aren't from here but for some reason got interested in the culture, I don't know what they do but its like I see them and just "That person is argentinian, give them the nationality"

Some people claim that Evita was a good representation, yes, of a historical moment. But current or... daily life Argentina is hard to be represented, I don't know in which game there was an Argentinian, we were all excited but once we heard him he sounded more Colombian than Argentinian lol.

[Emalie]

Except for the movie "Encanto" and some other series (maybe there are more, I guess), but my culture is represented in a not-so-loved way and I understand it. This is a reflection of what has happened from the 70s onwards...

I am Colombian and I recently saw a movie where it was supposedly set in a region of my country where there were people dressed in summer clothes when in reality it rains almost every day and there are modern buildings with internet. XD

[ThunderChicken]

I've been watching TPB on Netflix over the past few days (well, "watching" about as closely as somebody with the attention span of a golden retreiver on crack can, anyway) and it still surprises me to be watching a TV show and thinking "Hey, I know that guy!" and "Hey, I know that place!"

I don't know any of the main characters, but I know and grew up with a lot of the secondaries and people in crowds. I also knew a lot of people that lived in Woodbine, where the first few seasons were filmed.

[powerplantanimations]

It's crazy how difficult it is to nail down Hispanics in general. I remember the Primos TV Show made by Disney. That was made by Mexicans showing their personal lives, but it recieved blow back because a lot of the stuff they were referencing (slang and all that) are from OTHER countries.

[WildMoonCrow]

I can’t really think of any except for maybe Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes on Netflix. It’s as dark and depressing as the place I grew up Actual Norwegian culture is not really represented much, and I’m from a very rural place with a sort of different culture lol

[RedLenai]

Actually... it wasn't made by Mexicans, but Chicanos (people born-and-raised in USA, descendants of mexicans). The reason was mostly stereotypes, total lack of understanding of the culture and language, but especially the staff being extremely disrespectful, trying to gaslight and blame latinos for correcting the intro song, while claiming that "Spanish is a language of the conquerors, its oppresive to latinamericans" and more white savior crap