Hyperreality

I believe the hyper reality affects the American perspective of love and relationships by making things appear to be totally different then they actually are. One example of this is a “model picture in a magazine that has been touched up by a computer.” Having these beautiful women in magazines often brings across the image that all women should look like them with no flaws, when in reality, the models on that page do not even look as good as they are portrayed. Both men and women often compare their partners looks to magazines and fantasize that they would look like them, but that is impossible because not even the models themselves look like that. Another example is the reality television shows we have airing on the network today such as the Real World and Newport Harbor. On the Real World, they portray relationships between each other as constantly fighting and talking behind each other’s back which does happen sometimes but not all the time. On Newport Harbor they express love as going out a couple times and then they fall in love and it is that simple, which it is not that simple at all. I believe that hyper reality has affected the way we perceive relationships between people and love in general.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality