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“Survivor: Race War”
CBS plays the race card to boost ratings. Should Jeff Probst be voted off the island? Posted: August 24, 2006
TO SHAKE THINGS up on the long-running reality TV show “Survivor,” CBS will try to…incite a race riot. The show’s 13th season, set on the South Pacific’s Cook Islands, will feature four ethnic “tribes” (Blacks, whites, Latinos and Asians), who will be pitted against each other, much like the prison gangs on Riker’s Island, we presume.
Host Jeff Probst said the idea actually came from the criticism that “Survivor” was not ethnically diverse enough. Given that 80 percent of the people who apply to the show are white, the show’s producers must have had a rough time filling 20 slots. Team Asia is represented by two Korean Americans (Yul Kwon, 31, a management consultant, and Becky Lee, 28, a DC attorney), two Filipino Americans (Jenny Guzon-Bae, 36, a real esate agent, and Brad Virata, 29, an LA fashion stylist). A Vietnamese American nail salon manager Anh-Tuan “Cao Boi” Bui, 42, rounds out the less-than-intimidating lineup. Perhaps they will rely on their inscrutable Oriental wiles? Perhaps they will exhibit clannish behavior in this ethnographic study? Not likely. Group loyalty is not what this show is about. It’s about $1 million. And green trumps black, white, yellow and brown every time. • |
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