I really enjoyed watching CBS‘ hit Survivor: The Cook Islands on YouTube recently (thanks to TheRoundPeg!). The series was highly controversial (or at least was intended to be highly controversial) as in the first few weeks they seperated the tribes according to their ethnicity. It didn’t really work out that way for long, though, and what seemed like a bizarre and idiotic publicity stunt at first then gained perhaps a slight amount of credibility by virtue of there being less white-Americans than usual. Don’t get me wrong, there a loads of lovely white-Americans, but those which are lovely and appear on Survivor tend to be few and far between. History bares this out.

This is presumably pure coincidence. Perhaps they picked idiots to represent the white-Americans on purpose. I’m sure it’s total chance that the show miraculously goes from having almost no black, hispanic or Asian representitives to suddenly having 15 (with 5 white-American contestents) in the Cook Islands season. It was all a very cynical attempt to get the public off dear Mark Burnett and co’s backs for their collective neglectfulness of minorities in prior seasons.

Ultimately, though, it didn’t really matter. It worked out well, and the best team won, and it was very entertaining to watch.

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