Human beings have their own perception based on what message they have
received. Some people might have the same point of view, but the others are way
different from one to another.
Perception itself means how we interpret sensory data which come from
our five senses. The message can come to us in many different ways, one of the examples
is a television program, and for this paper I would like to discuss what a TV
program named Modern Family have been created perception in my mind.
According to putlocker.is, Modern
Family is a sitcom that tells a story about 3 different immediate families
inside it. One of the families comprises gay couple who adopted a baby. Another
family comprises married couple with three children (Alex: very clever, Haley:
the oldest one cares about being popular and the boys, Luke: the youngest one).
And the last family is comprises the grandfather and his second wife with her
son Manny.
Based on the synopsis above, it can be seen that this sitcom wants to
show a big family who come from different types of backgrounds but they still
can come together as a family. Although it looks like the family is very
complicated because there are some different backgrounds such as age, gender,
personality and culture, but it turns out in this sitcom also shown a situation
that can be found in any ordinary families.
This is what I felt during each or after watching each episode of Modern
Family. This television show made me think more open with any situation that
might occur in real life. For example, in Modern Family narrated about a gay
family who adopt their child, for most people have a relationship with the same
sex, even until marriage, is wrong. However, since this sitcom shows how gay
couple actually not much different from other normal family, so I have a
mindset that also makes me think that normal couples not necessarily better
than a gay couple or vice versa. With open minded like this also makes me
trying to be a person that is not easy judging other people.
In my opinion, some of the mass media is still trying to direct how
their audiences supposed to think. While some other media is now beginning to
try to be neutral in providing information, which in turn the audiences will
have their own opinion related to what they have received. This also will make
people's perception changing and growing. Since information is getting fast and
easy to be received to public, especially when internet has existed, people get
smarter too in processing all the information.
Dika P. Fauzia Putri
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References
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