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“Racial stereotypes in cartoons are particularly interesting because they are shown to children, particularly young children, who are still developing their sense of the world and their sense of identity.” ( DeGaetano, 2005; Strasburger, 1999; cited in "Bratz Friend or Foe to the Movement Towards Racial Equality"). Although iCarly is not a cartoon and I am not particularly speaking on racial stereotypes, Carlos E. Cortes (the author of “The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teaches About Diversity”) explains that children are always extracting information from what they see on the screen whether is consciously or subconsciously and whether its from educational programming or pure entertainment. Cortes also points out that with the ever-increasing power and influence of media, it is becoming a dominant educational component to children’s learning experience and socialization. iCarly, specifically, has yet to be called into question from a scholarly perspective. But the question of what and how children identify, grasp or recognize from various media images has always been called in for observation and through survey and observation we can begin to uncover what keeps minority viewers attracted to iCarly?