Modern Obama Family

Published in El Periodico
(Spain) on 5/10/2012
by Xavi Casinos (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Brian Perez. Edited by .

OPD 5/10 Edited by Katya Abazajian – in progress 6/1

proofread by Becca Prashner- 6/3

Modern Obama Family
BY XAVI CASINOS MAY 10, 2012
Barack Obama has once again broken a mold of American society, which still heavily favors WASP Puritanism, by expressing his support for gay marriage. Almost unthinkable until yesterday, it was inevitably the first black president who would take that step. This does look silly when compared to the giant stride made the day a non-white came to the White House.
Both milestones and molds shattered have a common denominator in the form of a television series; the Obama “operation” had a rehearsal on The West Wing, the television production that has undoubtedly had the most influence on U.S. policy. This gauged the overall social acceptance of a non-white president. It did not dare present a black candidate, but a rather Latin one. Nonetheless, it received a favorable reaction. There was no direct rejection and Americans encouraged the team's current president to go for it.
It is no coincidence that Obama is out of the closet now about supporting gay marriage, just as the most popular series in America, Modern Family, features two characters who are gay, married, and have an adopted daughter. And, rare is the series which does not feature one or more gays in an important role. For example: Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Glee...
Today, TV ratings and audience analyses are discussed almost as much as the reports of the CIA at the White House.


Modern Obama Family
Por
Xavi Casinos
– 10 mayo, 2012

Barack Obama ha vuelto a romper otro molde de una sociedad norteamericana en la que aún pesa terriblemente el puritanismo WASP y ha manifestado su apoyo al matrimonio entre homosexuales. Impensable casi hasta ayer mismo, ha tenido que ser el primer presidente negro quien diera el paso, que bien mirado habrá sido una tontería en comparación con la gigantesca zancada que protagonizó el día que un no blanco llegó a la Casa Blanca.

Ambos hitos, estos dos moldes hechos añicos, tienen un común denominador en forma de serie de televisión. Recordemos que la operación Obama tuvo una especie de ensayo en El ala oeste de la Casa Blanca, la producción que sin duda ha influido más en la política de Estados Unidos. Ahí se midió la aceptación social que tendría un presidente no blanco. No osaron proponer a un negro, fue un latino, pero la reacción favorable –en todo caso no hubo un rechazo frontal– de los norteamericanos animó al equipo del hoy presidente a ir a por todas.

No es casualidad que Obama haya salido ahora del armario apoyando las bodas gais, justo cuando la serie más popular en Estados Unidos es Modern Family, en la que dos de los protagonistas son un matrimonio de homosexuales con una hija adoptada. Y rara es la serie donde uno o más gais no tenga un papel importante. Por ejemplo, Anatomía de Grey, Cinco hermanos, Glee…

Vamos, que ahora en la Casa Blanca la cartelera de TV y los análisis de audiencia se estudian casi tanto como los informes de la CIA.
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