lol imagining Desperate Housewives to be representation of average American neighborhood, family or relationship-values is about as far from reality as imagining all Chinese to be hardcore Marxists and still wearing the Mao-style clothes in everyday life. Like Maxey said the series are made to be outrageus so they would get more viewers but saddly there's persons that get close to caricatures painted in the Desperate Houseslu...erm...wives. The rich-ass gated community where my mother lives has lots of women that sort of remind the characters in the Desperate Housewives. Large part of them are former models or beauty queens who have married wealthy businessmen/lawyers etc. Well by their mid 30s, early 40s they're getting bit too old to be models and you can't decent job if your only qualification is that you're former Miss Tennessee and large part of them are too lazy to even work so they just leech their husbands. Many of them have maids to do household chores. So they spend most of their days shopping, gossipping, slutting around or in silly self-promotional social activities that involves their kids. So the caricatures repsented in Desperate Housewives might exist in reality but they no-way represent American values or average American life.

Americans' attitudes towards marriage, food and neighborhoods in general are indeed different from those of the Chinese. However, don't use "Desperate Housewives" as an example. The show is meant to be outrageous to get people to watch it. Let's put it this way - I've watched and enjoyed many Jackie Chan movies. I don't for one moment believe the all Chinese act like the people in those movies.

Of course not! Don't be fooled.