Jane fights the American Family stereotypes

The families that the Japanese TV producers and the BEEF-EX executives want to see are those families that are seen as the stereotypical “American Family” which consists of a white man, a white woman, and 2-3 healthy white children. However because this is not the reality most American families Jane decides to pick families herself that do not necessarily meet those standards.

Jane’s first episode is with the Flower family who are white middle class family. When making this episode the only complaint about it was the meat which was too plain. The complaints were not about the family and they wanted Jane to continue with white middle class families, but she had other things in mind.

Jane chose the Martinez family and they were not the stereotypical American family because both the mother and the father were from Mexico and had made it in time to the U.S. for their son to be born. The Martinez family was the mark of a whole new beginning for “My American Wife!”

After the Martinez family it was the Beaudroux family from Louisiana. They were definitely not the stereotypical American family, despite the fact that they were white and had two white children; they also had ten adopted Korean children. This really made them stand out and made Jane interested in them.

Next Jane had wanted to do an episode with the Dawes family. They were not the stereotypical American family either because mom and dad were black and had nine black children. They were ultimately vetoed by “John” Ueno because they were not white and they were not making a beef dish. They ended up filming a stereotypical American family instead who made beef.

The Bukowskys seemed to be a stereotypical American family, both parents were white and the daughter was white, however the daughter was in a wheelchair because of a motorcycle accident. Due to the daughter’s disability they were no longer seen as a stereotypical American family. Jane had taken interest in them and did an episode with them that turned out to be the highest rated episode in Japan so far.

Lara and Dyann were the next non-stereotypical American family that Jane did an episode with. They were a lesbian couple with two children. On top of not being the stereotypical American they were also vegetarians so they did not make meat on the show. This episode upset many people and Jane apologized for it, but I think she was still pleased that it made it on the air.

Jane chose to make the episodes about the non-stereotypical American families because she wanted to show Japan that America was not full of white people who always eat beef. Jane wanted to show Japan the diversities of America and the realities of what are real American families.