Week 7&8: Reading Response 2

Goodman assumes that her Boston Globe audience knows about the Fiji's and how they use to be big and think it was beautiful. She mentions that after the television came to Fiji that's when everything went out of whack, she also brings up eating disorders and vomiting to lose weight of teenagers. Goodman's argument also thinks that the television make women care about the way they dress. Early in Goodman's argument she mentions that giving compliment's consisted of saying "You've gained weight." But of course we Americans do not take that as a compliment.
In Goodman's argument she says that "Fiji is the exact opposite of America. Given the facts that she introduced to us it is true. We as America think that big is bad and we starve ourselves to lose weight, we give up satisfying our taste buds to satisfy our mirror. We weaken our immune system by not get the proper vitamins. We take pills to help us skip another meal. And then she says "it's like someone out a mirror in the face of Fiji by bringing in the television." Even though it only had one channel that channel caused the "teenage vomiting to lose weight rate to increase to 15 percent. Eating disorders increase to 29 percent that's double what they were before, and 74 percent of the teenagers said that they often felt too big of fat all facts according to Goodman's argument." Goodman mentions specific television shows like "Ally Mcbeal" and "90210" as well as "E.R" that she thinks had some kind of affect on what teenagers and women think in Fiji.