Gettin' "Ugly."

A few weeks back, New Year's Eve I believe, I came across an Ugly Betty marathon on TV. I hadn't watched the show this season. But nothing else was on TV, and it was cold out. So I gave it a viewing.

I LOVE this show.

It's funny. It's a good story. It has a positive outlook. It's got evil people. And scandal.

But... What I have really come to appreciate about the show is that it is a racially diverse show.

Why is that such a big deal to me? Well, because like the main character, Betty, I too am Mexican.

When I lived in NYC four years ago, I lived in a Puerto Rican neighborhood. There were no other Mexicans around. Not that it was a big deal at all... But I never really met any other Hispanics in that city who were Mexican. I had friends who were Colombian. I knew Puerto Ricans and Dominicans too... But no Mexicans.

So it was a very big deal to me, once I started watching the show, to see the main character was a Mexican living in the boroughs of NYC. (Yay! They CAN exist!)

I often wondered when watching other shows (Friends in particular), "Why couldn't any of these leading characters be a minority? Where are the Asians? The African-Americans? The Hispanics?"

There was no reason any of those characters couldn't have been anything other white.

So "props" to "Ugly Betty." A very good, diverse, show.