The cultural artifact that i'm choosing to write about is the character Rachel from the TV series F.R.I.E.N.D.S. This tv show is about a group of friends (3 women and 3 male) who live across from each other and start to become best friends. Throughout the tv series you see each and everyone of them grow since the tv series aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. Obviously i wasn't alive when they first aired the show but i did catch up with the tv serious when i was about 16. My mother would rewatch and binge watch all the time. I started watching the tv show because I started to look up to the character Rachel. Rachel Green who is played by Jennifer Aniston, was this young girl who started to live on her own and tried to make a life for herself. Ever since I was young, I tried to be more mature for my age. It was probably based off the fact that all my cousins were way older than me so I wanted to fit in. Seeing Rachel's transition within the tv series, I found myself relating to it alot. She started off with nothing. She had to work and had to grow up and start to become an adult. She stopped relying on her parents and started doing things on her on. With that said, i hated asking my mom for money. I usually saved up from working so i can pay for things that i wanted. She started to become more independent and started relying on herself for her happiness and stopped looking for it within other people. This was probably something that made me love her even more. With that it really inspired me to become independent and not rely on anyone for anything. That has been something that has stuck with my whole life. I believe that's why i've done so good by myself out here in San Marcos and being by myself out here while my family is more up North. Lastly growing up, i started to realize i would start to dress the way she dresses. Something about that times style intrigues me so much. You will see me wearing high waisted pants with cute flowy shirts like hers. Overall, this cultural artifact has impacted me in such a huge way by the little things that happened in this tv show. Looking through my “critically vigilant" lense, I do see how the setcom portrayed Rachel's Character as a typical pretty white rich girl that got everything she wanted becuase she was daddys girl, but it still doesn't make me see everything differently because at the end, she turns out top grow into this whole different person that she was truly meant to be.
