Sitting on the couch under a warm blanket staring up at the television. I was all cuddled up with my blankie beside me and wearing my fuzzy pajamas. It was routine when I woke up to watch the Disney Channel every Saturday morning when I woke up. My mom was cooking breakfast in the kitchen and I could smell the bacon wafting into the living room. I knew she would call me when it was ready.
As I was watching ‘The Suite Life of Zach and Cody’ I noticed that not all the people in the show had the same skin color. The setting of this show was in a hotel. One character that had a different skin tone was Mr.Moseby, who was the hotel manager. Mr.Moseby had very dark skin, but that did not make me think he was ant different. As a child, I did not think anything about people with different skin tones because I grew up seeing them on television. Television characters in the shows I watched were usually treated the same as the white characters. Growing up in a very small community, there were not many different skin tones than I was. As a child, I was exposed to a variety of people on television. I think watching kid-friendly shows was a great way to learn about people who had different skin tones because they were treated like everyone else in the show. To this day many shows include all tones of skin and people with different backgrounds, and everyone is treated equally. Mom called me to the kitchen to eat breakfast. I could taste it from the delicious smell as I ran to the kitchen table. As I was enjoying the meal my mom made for me I asked her “why there were no people like Mr.Moseby in our town?” She told me there was one younger boy that was just born a couple of years ago. She added we do not have many because we are a small town that hasn’t had many people from other places move here. I understood and continued to eat my breakfast. When I was done I heading back to the living room to finish watching my show. When it was over I knew I would watch another show next Saturday when I woke up. I believe that the variety of skin tones was learned by experience for myself.
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iram usmani
1/31/2020 12:32:33 am
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2/4/2020 07:38:56 pm
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