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To: Neocon who wrote (6112)	5/6/2003 11:03:13 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

I do not claim any real knowledge of what people at large thought about the shows in question, Fair comment.

To: Neocon who wrote (6112)	5/6/2003 11:36:40 AM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7720

I don't know what planet Christopher grew up on but almost every white middle class family of the 50's saw the people on your list as models and to a large extent non-white middle class families, at least during the time they were first broadcast. Any deviency from the tv examples were considered something to whisper and apologize about. The middle class was huge, a dominant cultural feature, very uniform in their conscience (just after WWII), and the defining cultural model. We didn't start dissing them in the mainstream until the mid 60s. It is quite well known in sociology (as well as common sense for most of those who were there) that the media of the 50s had this kind of effect. The most striking example that I ever came across was when I learned that, when little kids played cowboys and Indians on the reservations of the southwest they all wanted to be the cowboys. John Wayne et al, the Indian fighters, were even serving as their role model.