|
26 Aug 2006, 19:07
|
#1
|
Caveat Lector
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Posts: 3,038
|
The next season of Survivor
.. .is planning on dividing its tribes by race: four tribes, one for asians, one for blacks, one for whites, one for hispanics.
I actually like the idea a lot, because white people often do not see themselves as a race, and have more to gain from trying to make racial problems appear a myth, or difference as nonexistant (at least overtly in the current political climate).
But can you imagine the the motivational outbursts?
'We're white, we can win!'
'Let's beat those honkeys and gooks!'
'Hey you guys are gonna lose you lazy Mexican bums!'
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 19:12
|
#2
|
Motherfracker
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 2,985
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
i think its a bad idea to do on tv
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 19:18
|
#3
|
Caveat Lector
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Posts: 3,038
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
I think it's a great idea, instead of ignoring issues, bring them out where everyone can see them.
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 19:34
|
#4
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 3,174
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
I think it's stupid, designed to just create anger and tension purely for ratings.
But hey, it'll appeal to the idiot of an average person so the reality tv bosses will think its great.
__________________
If one person is in delusion, they're called insane.
If many people are in delusion, it's called a religion.
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 19:55
|
#5
|
deserves a medal
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,211
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Whites and Hispanics are the same race tho
__________________
"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 20:27
|
#6
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,094
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
lonelygirl and danielbeast have made new videos
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 21:46
|
#7
|
:alpha:
Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 7,871
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
It isn't much different to having a "girls vs boys" competition though.
__________________
"There is no I in team, but there are two in anal fisting"
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 22:04
|
#8
|
Not Dark or Handsome
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Cwmbru
Posts: 2,588
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
I hope they make sure each group has its own extremist.
__________________
"You can't drink a pint of Bovril."
Last edited by Apothos; 26 Aug 2006 at 22:07.
Reason: typo
|
|
|
26 Aug 2006, 22:06
|
#9
|
deserves a medal
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,211
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by milo
lonelygirl and danielbeast have made new videos
|
Brookers too \o/
__________________
"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."
|
|
|
27 Aug 2006, 00:05
|
#10
|
Hamster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Crewe, England
Posts: 3,606
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
So they have choosen to split people by race, so what. One of the points of Surivor is to cause internal conflict between the tribes when they merge and in the past they have done so by splitting people by gender and by age and there wasnt such a uproar.
The simple fact is no matter how much people call for all races to be treated as the same we arent and we dont want to be. Our whole mental make up drives us to seek out and feel most comfortable beside those most like ourselves and its the exact reason why across not on the US but also most of Europe too we find areas of our towns and citys that are almost entily a single race. As such if you split people into race groups then they are alot more likly to form a solid bond as a group and thus when the merge happens you will find the conflict is at its peak when people are forced to balance off the natural instict for survival and the loyalty towards those they have formed strong bonds with
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cannon_Fodder
I think it's stupid, designed to just create anger and tension purely for ratings.
But hey, it'll appeal to the idiot of an average person so the reality tv bosses will think its great.
|
Survivor hardly needs to 'create' anger for ratings as it generates viewers without doing so.
As for the appealing to the idiot's imho Survivor along with The Amazing Race are two of the best Reality TV shows on TV and they are no more 'dumb' than many of the shows people here have mentioned as good shows in the past. I mean shows like Desperate Housewives, Prison Break, Bones, 24, Grey's Anatomy , Supernatural , Smallville, Las Vegas and The O.C to name a few are hardly inteligent shows and hey even some of the proceduals like House, CSI, Law and Order are often just Pseudo inteligent.
A show doesnt have to be smart to be good as long as its entertaining and america often knows how to make entertaining reality tv unlike the UK which decideds to flood us with daily shows showing things of litle intrest just so they can tell themselves that they are making a legitimate show documenting people behavior.
__________________
Wakey
PD and Suggestions Moderator
Co-founder of [F-Crew]
The Farnborough Crew
Cos anything else is just an alliance
Join our public channel at #f-crew
|
|
|
27 Aug 2006, 00:18
|
#11
|
PA Team
Join Date: Oct 2003
Posts: 7,449
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
I think the name is a real let down.
They should all be given a food supply each day. One of the portions is poisoned. The one that's left alive is the winner!
I agree it's probably done for ratings, and I doubt the whites will win.
Or whatever we have to call them to be politically correct.
__________________
r8-10 RaH r10.5-12 MISTU
|
|
|
27 Aug 2006, 00:46
|
#12
|
Motherfracker
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 2,985
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
wakey loves his tv :/
|
|
|
27 Aug 2006, 02:34
|
#13
|
I am.
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 6,580
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by KaneED
wakey loves his tv :/
|
more than he loves logic it seems
__________________
hi
|
|
|
27 Aug 2006, 13:51
|
#14
|
Drink is Good
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 2,122
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
I would say asians arent a 'race' I mean i dont associate myself in the same race as chinese or muslim people, it sounds utterly wank imo.
__________________
Can we please have a moment of silence...........
|
|
|
28 Aug 2006, 14:29
|
#15
|
so f*cking zen
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hitting Bottom
Posts: 8,499
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by wakey
The simple fact is no matter how much people call for all races to be treated as the same we arent and we dont want to be.
|
I'm worried that stupidity could be a disease 'cause with the viral load you're carrying there's no way you're not contagious.
__________________
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
|
|
|
28 Aug 2006, 14:50
|
#16
|
so f*cking zen
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hitting Bottom
Posts: 8,499
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by horn
as far as it having little academic content other than this i'm not sure why reality tv has become the whipping boy of so many critics, and infact just about every pseudo intellectual in the country.
we've had soaps for decades, that offer absaloutey nothing other than spasticated ideology and parasitic memes. chat shows that quite blatantly exploit the dumb and perpetuate false premises in understanding our mental health, news channels that offer sensationalistic biased "news" and myriad other paradigms for tv programming that don't just offer little of worth, but infact actively dumb the public down, and devalues it's viewers self worth.
|
There are varying degrees of worthlessness.
__________________
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
|
|
|
28 Aug 2006, 15:07
|
#17
|
:alpha:
Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 7,871
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
They should split it by IQ levels.
I don't believe in IQ as any decent indicator of intelligence (except how good you are at IQ tests) but it still could be entertaining to see if there is any difference.
__________________
"There is no I in team, but there are two in anal fisting"
|
|
|
28 Aug 2006, 15:38
|
#18
|
Clerk
Join Date: Jun 2001
Posts: 13,940
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
I hope anyone who watches this dies of AIDS.
|
|
|
28 Aug 2006, 17:22
|
#19
|
Raaaaaaaah!
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 2,296
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by milo
lonelygirl and danielbeast have made new videos
|
I checked them out, it was really sweet and I hope their hike goes well.
__________________
Hicks
Mercury & Solace
Always [Fury]
|
|
|
28 Aug 2006, 21:27
|
#20
|
USS Oklahoma
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 2,500
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
I want to see the tribes split by radical islamists vs. zionists vs. conservative christian, with each group haveing semi-automatic weapons for the various challanges.
Comedy geuius!
__________________
Ignorance is curable, stupidity is not.
|
|
|
1 Sep 2006, 12:32
|
#21
|
Prince of Amber
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Posts: 1,313
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by dda
I want to see the tribes split by radical islamists vs. zionists vs. conservative christian, with each group haveing semi-automatic weapons for the various challanges.
|
I think it would only be fair to also allow atheists a chance at the million dollar prize.
__________________
"We sleep safe at night in our beds because rough men stand ready to visit violence upon those who wish to do us harm." -- George Orwell.
Last edited by Texan; 1 Sep 2006 at 12:49.
|
|
|
1 Sep 2006, 12:59
|
#22
|
Hamster
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Crewe, England
Posts: 3,606
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dace
I'm worried that stupidity could be a disease 'cause with the viral load you're carrying there's no way you're not contagious.
|
So I'm stupid because I can use my eyes and my brain to realise that human nature is such that we are drawn to familarity. We dont like not feeling part of a group and when we are on the fringes of a group it makes us uneasy and as such on the whole we feel more comfortable around people of the same 'race' as they will often have more in common with us as they will normally share a simerlar background and culture. As such on survivor the chances of strong ties being built up in these 'initial' tribes will be alot more likely to bond and thus form alliances and produce intresting situations later on.
Now ofc race isnt the only factor in making people bond as theres other factors such as gender, age, religion ect ect which can divide people BUT they cant really split people on all these factors hence the initial tribes would either be tiny or they would need 50 people taking part. Last season they split people by age and gender, this season its ethnencity and next season it could be religion.
Additionally due to the culture of each 'race' and the genetics of 'race' it potentially leads to a situation where it gives each tribe a different area to excel in when it comes to the challenges and such like and adds a variety to the challenges (or it will blow the myth surrounding certain races away by showing the stereotypes to be wrong)
__________________
Wakey
PD and Suggestions Moderator
Co-founder of [F-Crew]
The Farnborough Crew
Cos anything else is just an alliance
Join our public channel at #f-crew
|
|
|
1 Sep 2006, 13:22
|
#23
|
:alpha:
Join Date: May 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 7,871
|
Re: The next season of Survivor
Quote:
Originally Posted by wakey
Now ofc race isnt the only factor in making people bond as theres other factors such as gender, age, religion ect ect which can divide people BUT they cant really split people on all these factors hence the initial tribes would either be tiny or they would need 50 people taking part. Last season they split people by age and gender, this season its ethnencity and next season it could be religion.
|
I'd find it harder to bond with someone based on the fact we're both white than based on any of those other factos (gender, age, religion).
Just because I'm white and they're white doesn't mean anything in terms of how well we'd get on.
__________________
"There is no I in team, but there are two in anal fisting"
|
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 13:21.
| |