My issue with these types of shows is that in some ways, showing a cultural group in an environment that is all sweetness and light and dancing bears is every bit as hyperbolic as demonizing them.
It's not so much that the characters distort the interactions between them and the society that they are part of, rather the distortions virtually always demonize the society as a whole while showing the target group as absolutely flawless.
Have forced myself to sit through several episodes of Little Mosque... in the first two seasons and the uniformity of the story lines making persons of Western culture look stupid, anti-Islamic, intolerant and xenophobic form the basis of the show's attempts at humour.
Any extreme point of view is generally counter-productive and serves to feed negative stereotypes.
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