Ugly Betty

I recently read an article in Time Magazine about Ugly Betty Tv Show.

It was about why 14 million people a week watch it. Because it is easier to hate a straw man or a straw Mexican than a person, it says.

The reality TV embodies everything there is to love ad despise about ths US-ambition, greed, free-spiritedness and vulgarity, boldness, shamelessness. And, it was pioneered overseas such as American Idol is British, Big Brother Dutch, Survivor Swedish.

You embrace a new, anything-goes culture that values chutzpah over tradition and propriety. The article ends with this: " What makes Bety ugly, in the long run, makes America the beautiful.