The Rhetoric of Jersey Shore

Every Thursday night at 10:00 pm on MTV, people of all ages tune in to the third season of the hit show, Jersey Shore.  The show basically follows eight guidos and guidettes of New York and New Jersey living in a beach house in Seaside.  What we are essentially are watching a bunch of over-tanned, party lovin’ men and women in their 20’s partying and drinking on the beach and in the clubs, and with the usual GTL-gym, tanning and laundry routine.  Most of them only finished their degree to as high as high school and have been just having a blast with their carefree lives since.  So why is it that American’s are so addicted to them?  One is for their attitudes and their fun lives they live during the three-month period of the show.  Another is, is that they are completely different that who and what we are used to.

           Jersey girls and guys have always been different-the way they dress, the way they act and especially the way they talk.  Using words such as “juice-head guido” and “friggin,” it’s just something everyone else not from that area isn’t used to and it becomes addicting to watch such people act in such ways.            

            Their rhetoric completely fascinates me and probably most of who else watches.  Not only is their language crude and full of words no one else would understand unless they were from Jersey, but the way they present themselves when using such vocabulary.  Most people would like to keep themselves classy and presentable on a nationally televised program.  Not this group of eight.  They were raised and brought up used to being able to express yourself using such crude and inappropriate language and acting out such as fighting on the boardwalk if someone is giving you a hard time or having a fight with one of your roommates.  

Something that just leaves me with questions is why is it that only people from that particular area act in such ways?  It seems to me this is something we just will never know but we will all just continue to watch and be in awe and fascination of their unusual rhetoric and presence.