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I'm shocked that reality TV would stoop to such tactics.

Touche. Your sarcasm is well-deserved and right on the mark on this one.

(Noting that my verification # started with "666")

I can't think of a better way to bring publicity to a dying show. "Be outrageous." Make them call you names but make them talk about you. All publicity can be good publicity if you cause it.

There was an outstanding series of documentaries on PBS years ago which valiantly refuted the entire notion of "race". Maybe they should dust it off to run as counterprogramming?

I thought the idea was that people from different backgrounds, race, ethnicity, etc were to be embraced. Now you're saying shame on CBS for taking that premise to its logical conclusion.

We reap what we sow. This is a stunt that would not be possible if the "diversity" movement had not been so succesful. This is what happens when you separate people based on color, etc. instead of looking for a colorblind society. You can't say diversity is great because people are different and bring different things to the table, and then turn around and get pissed when CBS separates people based on that same diversity rationale. All they did was make the same assumptions about race, ethnicity, etc, and turn it into a tv program. We are either substantially different as a result of these characteristics, or we aren't. I choose the latter. The diversity crowd chooses the former, and this is the end result. You can't have it both ways.

CBS said they were trying to get more diversity on the show. Why? Because the diversity crowd makes so much of our differences. This show is the logical result of such thinking by putting these alleged differences on parade. Think about it.

Clarification:

"I thought the idea was that people from different backgrounds, race, ethnicity, etc were to be embraced. "

Should read:

"I thought the idea was that people from different backgrounds, race, ethnicity, etc were to be embraced solely because of that difference."

Just curious.......

last season contestents were separated by gender and age to begin with. Maybe there were complaints, but I didn't hear any.

Is there a difference?

the very fact that this show may be interesting because of its "new" methods of grouping contestants; demonstrates that "Racism" is still part of pop-culture.

dividing people into groups based on skin pigmentation and hypothetical ethnicity; serves to fuel the lies of Racism

There is one Race, the Human Race.

get over yourself and have an altruistic, Human-centered passion for life instead of being led to the "river of Racism" and being forced to drink it under the disguise of tolerance

why is it so hard to see through the lies?

stop being white, Asian, Hispanic and/or black and BE HUMAN!

Maybe they should break up into a "pretty" and "average-looking" or, to be original on TV, "ugly" pair of teams, or even all three.

Samuel, although I agree with much of what you say, your correction points up what's wrong with Survivor in relation to multiculti norms. The groups are competing against each other, not coalescing in a rainbow coalition (the way it's supposed to work). The premise of multiculturalism is that group identity coexists happily alongside universal brotherhood, when in practice (which Survivor is reflecting) it doesn't work that way.

My correction: "doesn't often work that way."