Rituals and Stereotypes

The Robertson’s boys all gather their equipment together.  They get their most important items their guns, their sleeping bags and food.  They are headed out to the woods to stay the night, to make sure they are up and ready to go before dawn.  Because the Robertson’s boys are sticking to their annual tradition of camping out, on the Robertson’s family land the night before duck season so they are and ready to go as soon as duck season starts.  The family has a lot of rituals like praying before dinner, going to church and hunting. The shows focus a lot on those traditions. 

            The Duck Dynasty show follows the Robertson family who works together making duck call hunting products. One of the boys Willy went to college and earned a business degree and has built the business up from the basement to a multimillion dollar business.  When you see him you don’t think of him as a business man, he has a long beard and hunts.  The show is letting the world have a peek into a family lifestyle not many people don’t know or understand. The show is giving us a description of the way they live, they may be rich but they stick to their traditions and they don’t really fit the typical stereotype that is associated with wealthy people. 

You see with this family that there are still families that stick to traditions and I will probably look closer at the different types of traditions the family has.  I can see when watching the show how the family does and does not fit the normal stereotype of wealth or southern hunters. We need more shows that show us that family can work together, stick to traditions and be individuals.