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how Keeping Up With the Kardashians made America great again Ten years ago, the Kardashians were little more than a footnote in the infamous OJ Simpson murder case. You might have heard of Simpsons's defence lawyer Robert Kardashian, and if you kept a particularly close eye on tabloid journalism, you might even have heard of his daughter Kim (a friend of Paris Hilton). But 10years since their reality television show Keeping Up With The Kardashians first aired on E!, the Kardashians have become the aaa replica designer handbags most famous family in America. They're the subjects of a strikingly high percentage of tabloid stories, a touchstone in discussions of race, class and gender, the force behind dozens of business ventures, and have an estimated collective worth of over $122 million. How did the family once dismissed as "famous for being famous" become the ultimate symbol of contemporary Western culture? There'sa much memed momentfrom the very first epis