After watching Beverly Hills 90210, I can safely say that the show is stereotypically American. During my stay in London for two and a hlaf weeks towards the end of August, many questions that people had about american high schools were all based upon shows like 90210 and movies like Clueless. The characters are substantially older (on average the actors are about 9 years older). The show I watched yeasterday was a re-run, towards the end of the series, where the actors were supposed to be 24, and were more racially mixed. The show was often criticized early on for having 'too many white kids'. The show represents upper-class 20-somethings living in Beverly Hills. It doesn't accuratly portray american culture (because a lot of people don't have a ton of money), but it portrays what a lot of people would like themselves and the culture aro
und them to be, which makes the overall theme of the series appealling. It does however portray american culture in the fact that they all have large houses and cars, and the characters are all "well off." Other countries seem to be more cramped a lot of times in their living spaces and the cars are generally smaller overall. The episode consisted of an old friend of the group, known as "Munce" (sp.?), getting married and the guys of the show throwing him an elaborate bachelor party at the Peach Pit (a club co-owned by two of the members of the cast.) Bachelor parties are very american and even in the show when Munce says that he wants to lay low before his wedding, Brandon convinces him by saying, "you have to. It's tradition. Not having one would be un-american." In other countries they do have some sort of a get together with the guys,
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