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Bewitched is about intermarriage between Anglo and white ethnics in the Eastern Establishment. I Dream of Jeannie is about...

talkinggorillabutler asked:

Bewitched is about intermarriage between Anglo and white ethnics in the Eastern Establishment. I Dream of Jeannie is about oriental war brides in the Military Industrial Complex.

“This 1950s pop culture about mixed-culture relationships was really about the collapse of the WASP/white ethnic distinction” feels like an obvious layup but I’m not feeling the slam dunk. Ad exec Darrin, the guy who joins the urban executive class after Army service, does he represent the old-line or the arriviste vis a vis Samantha and Glendora’s mystic order?