Posted on 08/23/2006 11:28:27 AM PDT by Pokey78
Confirming weeks of rumors, CBS has revealed the identities of the twenty castaways who will be competing in this fall's Survivor: Cook Islands and announced that the castaways will -- in what the show's producer and host both acknowledge to be a controversial move -- initially be organized into four tribes divided along ethnic lines (African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and White.)
"We're going to take some heat for it," Survivor executive producer Mark Burnett acknowledged to People about the segregated tribe decision that will no doubt give the thirteenth edition of the long-running reality series -- which will also include the return of last season's new Exile Island concept -- some extra buzz. "But it's a great cast." "Some people will think this is controversial. Others will think, 'What's the big deal?'" Survivor host Jeff Probst added. "Either way, it's going to be very interesting."
According to Probst, the Cook Islands' segregated tribes concept is the end result of the show's attempt to respond to longstanding criticism that Survivor's casts needed more diversity. "The idea for this actually came from the criticism that Survivor was not ethnically diverse enough because, for whatever reason, we've always had a low number of minority applicants apply to the show. So we set out and said, 'Let's turn this criticism into creative for the show," Probst explained during a Wednesday morning The Early Show appearance in which CBS officially revealed the season's cast."
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The oldest person is 44 years old.
Maybe they'll have more young chickees with big thingees.
Well, I see America has taken another step down into the next ring of Hell.
Great programming, ay?
Can they even call themselves the "white team" or would that be racism and hate speech...
Alright, that's it. I'm sick and tired of being treated like a second class citizen. I am not "white," I am European-American.
Next episode......gays, trani's, lezzies, and straights.
Why not have a tribe of native Polynesians too? And the winner for the 8th straight week in a row, the home team!
Just what we need in the War On Terror - the MSM endorsing racial tribalism over unity.
If a member of the White tribe wins, many people will lose their minds with rage.
For the producer's sake, I hope an Asian person wins.
This show isn't like Eurivision with it's happy funtime teenybop music.
Stupid Hollyweird productions like this deserves to be called out.
Regardless of their ethnic background they're still all the type of jobless wonders that can spend months at a time trudging around in the middle of nowhere.
So, people actually watch this show?
I am Scottish-American, eh
Disgusting racism. The left wants people to fight with other. Imagine if the castaways got into ethnic slurs! Obviously one group would always be guilty of racism and most of the other groups would always be innocent.
I hate the left.
nice
I was born here and confound demographers when I check the box marked native American
Where's that Fightin' Whities logo?
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