I watched an episode of Degrassi season 8. There are a lot of characters in it, but this episode was mainly about Mia. She's a junior in high school. In this episode she is offered a chance to model. This brings her new friends and boys that she didn't have before. Mia thinks the only way to get to the top is to sleep with one of the guys who is having tryouts for his product campaigns. She thought her new friends would go away if she didn't land a modeling job soon so, she goes through with it. Some of them lose respect for her once they find out how she got the job.
Mia wasn't really in power here, she wanted it but not in the right way. She's about 17; I'm guessing she's suppossed to be Italian. This episode doesn’t really support Gerbner’s theory. Gerbner stated “men outnumber women in prime time television two to one, young people are underrepresented, older people are one-fifth of their actual proportion of the population, and poor people are virtually absent.” Degrassi is all about young people from high school to college. Mia could be considered somewhat poor because she needs the modeling job to help support her mother and her daughter (she is a teen mom).
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This show sort of proved the Cultivation Theory wrong. Although, Mia wasn't a strong role here, she is getting a strong career as a model. In other episodes she is a very strong female role and so are others, just not in this particular episode. There was a male black boy in it. He played Mia's love interest until he found out what she did. There was an Asian girl that was Mia's friend too until she found out. The rest were basically white. There aren't really any signs of the Cultivation Theory in this episode of Degrassi.
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