Survivor Segregation

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mikelikes2bike

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Anyone else feeling the bad taste in their mouths with the new twist in this year's survivor?

If in fact you are, I've taken it upon myself to become a bit of the activist.

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I don't get why they feel the need to do that. Wouldn't it have been enough to make sure they had various races represented all throughout the tribes?
 
I have mixed feelings with this one and I will explain why...

From what I understand, there will be 4 teams seperated by their ethnicity. The teams will be asian, white, black, and hispanic. This whole thing was brought about by MANY complaints about not enough diversity in the show. Ok...so now we have diversity on the show...but for some reason, I think they may have taken it one step too far. To show fairness (hmmmm...do game shows technically HAVE to show fairness???), they should put 1 or 2 of each race in each team...that would have been 'real' diversity so to speak. Or in the least, consider the same amount of white, black, asian, & hispanic applicants for the whole show itself.

I am almost wondering if this is Survivor's Producers' frustration coming out about the complaints or if this is just a ploy to get more people watch...hey...they know what they are doing! They know that more people will tune in to see a controversy...makes for what they would call 'good tv'. Think of (oh...what's his name...the guy that always has fist fights breaking out on the stage). The mess is encouraged because it made more people view it.

If this whole thing is wrong, then why do we have male vs female, or college graduate vs non-college graduate in our reality shows and that be 'OK'? (No...I didn't have a problem with that either.)

Will I view this survivor? Yes. I will. I don't consider it a 'war between the races' at all. Whatever the ethnicity of the winner is will not be considered the "best" race so to speak just because that one person won. That would be positively REDICULOUS. And those hoping for their 'race' to win because of that very same thing is just wrong. I will be watching it and pick my favorites depending on HOW they play...not by what color they are. This is the same way I judge every person that steps in my path...not by their color, but by their 'countenance' so to speak.

Anyway...that's how I view it. I think they would be wrong if they shut the door on someone BECAUSE of their ethnicity...but that is not the case here.
 
I am a die hard Survivor fan!

I think that this new twist is a step towards equality in the number of minorities that get to be on the show.

Every other survivor there has only been a few token black, hispanic or asian people and then the vast majority of 18 have been white.

This will change the game and I believe for the better. Next season, I think it will change again, perhaps 1 person from each group on each team.

Oh yea and then there comes apoint in the game where they could make teams trade members and then when all the tribes come together as one (like final 10).

I say hold judgement until you actually see the show and then make an informed decision.
 
Here is why I'm upset.

My ancestors were a product of segregation. I'm a huge supporter of diversity, which means my rainbow has every colour.

If I was producing the show I'd have everyone working together immediately. An even number of groups per team.

Doing it this way certainly isn't fresh, and I'm not alone in this opinion when I say that it is offensive. Putting races against one another isn't my idea of entertainment...

If you don't agree, that is perfectly all right. We are all entitled to our opinion. This is all I'm going to say on the subject.
 
I just have a question for everyone....who has actually watched Survivor before?

I know a lot of people who are upset about this on the other forums I frequent are people who don't even watch survivor.

It is a game show....people are just making too big of a deal over this and there is a solution...if it is that much of a problem then don't watch.
 
bep said:
If this whole thing is wrong, then why do we have male vs female, or college graduate vs non-college graduate in our reality shows and that be 'OK'? (No...I didn't have a problem with that either.)

Will I view this survivor? Yes. I will. I don't consider it a 'war between the races' at all. Whatever the ethnicity of the winner is will not be considered the "best" race so to speak just because that one person won. That would be positively REDICULOUS. And those hoping for their 'race' to win because of that very same thing is just wrong. I will be watching it and pick my favorites depending on HOW they play...not by what color they are. This is the same way I judge every person that steps in my path...not by their color, but by their 'countenance' so to speak.
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I really agree with everything you said.

My example would be Cerie and Terry from this past season. Each had a vast amount of fans from every race. Average Survivor fans care nothing about race, but about the player's ability to play the game and their personalities.
 
I am a die-hard fan too. And I will watch this one, hoping that it will be as you say...
Will I view this survivor? Yes. I will. I don't consider it a 'war between the races' at all. Whatever the ethnicity of the winner is will not be considered the "best" race so to speak just because that one person won. That would be positively REDICULOUS. And those hoping for their 'race' to win because of that very same thing is just wrong. I will be watching it and pick my favorites depending on HOW they play...not by what color they are. This is the same way I judge every person that steps in my path...not by their color, but by their 'countenance' so to speak.
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