Life in a fishbowl: globalization and reality tv increasingly,we have a rich global culture in which countries influence each other's food, music, education, technology, fashion, and entertainment. one popular form of entertainment that has spread to all corners of the world is reality tv. it's not clear when and where reality tv actually began. perhaps its roots are itn a1979s tv series called an american family, which a followed a real california family through several years of daily life and explored topics that had been taboo before then, such as divorce. for the family members, it was life in a fishbowl: they gave up their privacy. anyone with a tv in the u.s. could watch the smallest details of their lives-details that were often embarrassing and sometimes tragic. However, the concept of reality tv as we know it today probabaly began in the 1990s with several european tv show. these shows took real people and put them in difficult situations to see what would happen- and this is the essence of reality.