Publicly Acclaimed Fairytale

The Royal Couple
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        Royal Wedding me this, and Royal Wedding me that- last week, all what I’ve saw in the television and all what I’ve read in the news papers are about the Royal Wedding in a power house country. In fact, in a teaser which I’ve saw in the television, the wedding was tagged as “Real Life Fairytale”. The publicity of the wedding was indeed sensational. Actually, I guess it is bigger than the wedding itself. What’s with that wedding after all?

Last year, I’ve been teaching Sociology in my work, which eventually gave me knowledge about the discipline. Social Stratification and Communism are some of the few topics in Sociology that I’ve learn to favor.

The wedding is ordinary. The bride is in a white gown, the ceremony was celebrated in a church, there were visitors etc. In short, it was just another moment when two people decided to be together in the eyes of the society and church. Ah! I remember, the groom is a prince and the bride is very pretty. I guess that made the difference.

 So what does the publicity of the wedding implied? It implied that media has the power to sensationalize issues where people might think that what they cover and put in their headlines is important. It reminds of the Agenda-Setting Theory in Mass Communication.

Actually, it doesn’t make any sense in my country’s economy, much less than my family’s monthly income. But because of the power of media, people speculated that this event is of importance. Everybody in a social networking site posts something about the wedding, and in the office, everybody pranks that they were invited in the said event.

Also, I’ve noticed how media can further differentiate the strata of each person in the society. If you don’t have a royal blood streaming on your veins, would you have the same attention on your wedding day? If you are a not so pretty bride that happened to marry a real-life prince, would you have the same media coverage on your matrimony? I guess not.

I guess all those people who are bound at home watching the wedding, especially, the girls out there, tends think that they are the bride walking down the aisle, and being married to a prince. If that’s the way they think, perhaps I might as well assume that they are gazing upon a rare falling star, that one won’t get that attention from the crowd if it weren’t for the circumstances that the royal couple is into.

In short, the media only amplified that people who are in the top of the food chain only deserves a huge amount of attention on a wedding day, and how it made a clear classification on the social classes. Making me realize on how boring and less sensational the weddings of middle and low classified people will be.