Current mood:	confused
Current music:	Sinnerman--Nina Simone

So now time for another stirring installment of...


This is an excerpt from a press release issued by CBS which I found on comingsoon.net:

"'Survivor: Cook Islands' will feature the series' most ethnically diverse cast to date. The castaways will initially be organized into four tribes divided along ethnic lines (African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and White) before merging in a later episode."

Now I know life must be hard when you're a reality show producer and you have to come up with new and exciting ways to show people running around a jungle in their underwear, but something in my instincts tells me that 'BATTLE OF THE RACES' just isn't the way to do it. Can anyone else foresee the horrible problems that will ensue with four ethnic "tribes" being seperated and then let loose on one another? Come to think of it, that's probably exactly what they're hoping will happen. They know that the only reason we'll watch is to see if our racially ingrained stereotypes will prove to be true. Will the Asians make bamboo darts to slay the other tribes? Will the African Americans have some kind of natural 'jungle instincts' within them? Will the white people run around trying to sue each other? Will the Hispanics stand there not knowing what the hell they're doing in the middle of a friggin jungle?

Now that I've managed to offend everyone let us take a minute and realize that this is the only reason the show even exists. Why else would people watch an all out ethnic brawl if they weren't rooting for one race to win? Lets also keep in mind that the show is still called 'Survivor' which means only one person can win. What this tells me is that three of the ethnicities could potentially gang up and have an entire race eliminated from the show one person at a time. Why don't they just come out and call it what we all know it is, "SURVIVOR: GENOCIDE!"