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Survivor, Ep. 4: WTF?

Started by TonyLB, March 02, 2007, 11:47:10 PM

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John Morrow

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March 09, 2007, 04:00:46 PM
Quote from: TonyLBYeah ... but there are people on TAR, for instance who say things that I'm quite confident no amount of stress or sleep-deprivation could force me to say.  I mean ... particularly in their commentary on third-world countries, some of these people say things that you just boggle at, and they say it with a blithe sincerity that just blows your mind.

Oh, I agree.  And there are certainly some racial, ethnic, gender, and social divides that come out in Survivor, too (e.g., black people becoming outsiders to a group of insider white and asian players seems to be pretty common).  While I think some of it is malicious or even racist, I think a lot of it is just ignorance. For example, I think a lot of the stuff that Rocky is doing that could be seen as racist (he seems to pick on a lot of black players) is really more of a cultural clash than racism, while the crap going on in Moto sure does look bad.  Really bad, though I was happy to see Alex standing up a bit against it.

Quote from: TonyLBI totally get that it highlights the way you perceive the difference.  I hope you'll understand that it doesn't seem like such a good analogy to me, because I don't perceive the differences the same way.  Not much more to say about that, really.

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