The FOX show, GLEE ,effectively demonstrates intercultural communication with a cast of high school teens that are ethnically and socially different. The cast features jocks, cheerleaders, and social misfits. They also diversified the group by having Asians, Jews, African Americans, Hispanics, and Caucasians. Each of them come from such different cultural backgrounds and cliques yet they came together and managed to give incredible performances.
There were a couple of episodes that strongly emphasized the boundaries within a social hierarchy. Finn Hudson was the star quarterback for the school but “risked” alienation by getting involved with Glee to share his singing and dancing abilities. Then there’s Rachel Berry, a truly gifted girl who was often bullied by the cheerleaders and football players for being overly obsessive with herself and her dream to be famous. Kurt is an amazing soprano but was picked on by the macho jocks for being gay. Eventually, he later impressed them with his football kicking skills. Basically, the show touched based with the generic stereotypes that exist in a high school environment. Although it’s highly fictional it set an example in breaking group polarization within a social setting and to be more socially and ethnically accepting. In the finale, it shows how individuals can contribute their own ideas and talents to reach a common goal and fortunately for them they managed to win a competition for sectionals.
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