When CBS’s “Survivor” announced that it was going to split up teams in regards to race - one Hispanic, one black, one white, one Asian - I thought it was a great idea in order to mix things up.  Most people don’t even know that Survivor mixes it up routinely by age, gender, etc. 

Of course, the show’s producer, Mark Burnett caught some heat, being accused by Ray Richmond of the Hollywood Reporter as “tapping a raw segregationist nerve and exploiting America’s obsession with race for personal gain.”

Uh, that’s gay.  Race is as arbitrary - if not more arbitrary - as a distinction as gender or age.  It’s a Demographic - maybe.  That’s a stretch. 

No one can really predict behavioral or shopping habits by race, can they?  Any distinctions my more ignorant readers might be thinking of right now are probably based on class or income, rather than race.

Let’s put it this way - a black guy and a white guy are more similar than a white guy and a white woman.  Isn’t that why ever single sitcom on TV is about the hilarious differences of opinions between a white guy and his white wife?

Anyways, I saw last night’s debut episode, and the contestants made more jokes about racial stereotypes than I could in the same time period.  Right off the raft (that they had to travel on to get to their respective island) one of the Asians, named Cao Boi (pronounced “Cowboy”) started saying “we’re Asians, we should be lighter than this.  Rice!  Rice!”

All Mark Burnett really does is point the camera.

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