Comments on: Jeff Probst realizes that Asians are not all identical!

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:00:31 +0000

Gatamala:

*snicker* I honestly was afraid of the spelling of the all the “istans” states left over from the Soviet disintegration…

But for everyone’s edification, including mine:
http://worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/as.htm

By: gatamala

gatamala — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:19:48 +0000

Lyonside -

WOT? Pashto, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Turkmens, Kazakhs, & Kyrgyz can’t play??

THIS IS RACIST!!

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:17:03 +0000

DCMC:
Maybe 39 days is the length of the contest, and more than one person on the “Asian” team is Korean?

I dunno, the only reality show I watch is Project Runway.

By: dcmc

dcmc — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 06:41:32 +0000

I think JP’s ignorance is not uncommon in the U.S. but acting it out n proud certainly exudes stupidity on his behalf; but what I am curious about this comment “just spent 39 days people from Korea”, does it mean a Korean could have won?

By: Merq

Merq — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:19:17 +0000

The greater danger is that he’s hyping this epiphany as “proof” that his show will foster “understanding” between people.

By: mtevc

mtevc — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:25:32 +0000

The sad part of this is that besides now confirming that Jeff Probst is an idiot, we are now aware of just how large his idiocy looms, as he wasn’t even smart enough to keep that stupid stuff to himself. WHAT A MAROON, to quote Bugs Bunny…

I think this falls into the category of…why White people think all us minorites look alike.

By: Lyonside

Lyonside — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:20:10 +0000

I don’t have much to add to the comments, except that, dude, obviously the guy (or at least the persona he’s using) hasn’t looked at a damn map since first grade.

Asia also includes a LOT more than Japanese, Chinese, Korean… Laos? Vietnam? Cambodia? Indonesia? India? Sri Lanka? Pakistan? Freaking Siberia? Nepal? If you want to subdivide based on geography, then you have to start talking about Pacific Islands, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Northern steppes/interior Asia, Pacific Coast, etc.

The stupid - it burns!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:31:50 +0000

It’s sad that Mr. Probst is learning about all this at such a late age in his life. I would hope he doesn’t ask every Asian person he meets from what country they’re come from. Let it be known also, that white people are not entirely mutts, as he calls them. To say so would mean they have no culture, and that is an insult (albeit that did not come out of Mr. Probst mouth nor did he mean it that way, but those listening or reading his comment could take it in that fashion). My father is Dutch/English and even he (being an American) likes his tea and keeps his unwrapped presents underneath the tree after Christmas as a sort of blessing. This is a Dutch tradition, or perhaps a family tradition, which he claims. Anyhow, my point is, America is not all about football games, beer, and happy hour. There is so much more diversity among races, cultures, and even family (irregardless of background). I just wish Mr. Probst would have learned this earlier in his life. I mean, wasn’t he alive during the Vietnam War? Also, if he’s a resident of California, he should have some awareness of different cultures (Hispanic/Latino, Asian, African American, Middle Eastern, etc). What he should do as a social experiment rather than having races compete against each other is to live in a foreign country for a period of three months (and I’m not talking about Canada or Western Europe) and study and see what its like in other countries, their customs, etc. Perhaps them, he would have more of an understanding and more of a genuine appreciation. Really, there’s so much more to culture and race besides, “Where did you come from?”

By: Darren

Darren — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:19:27 +0000

Asians are from different places….like DUH!!!

Survivor ventures out to all of these so called exotic places, yet, the cast isn’t as diverse of these places. It’s like neo-colonial adventures around the world: the natives cannot not be the explorers; the explorers cannot be the natives. Instead the neo-colonial survivors take the native’s culture and that serves as the back drop for the season: a tiki head, tribal music, or simply a few native words. The show gives the spicy whiff of diversity, however the main dish is served bland, cold, and white. Only once has a person of color won and it was truly an under-the-radar-I-hope-they-don’t-notice-I’m-Black experience.

Now with a truly diverse cast, a wench has been placed in mechanical wheels of paradise, a divided cast by race. Wasn’t Survivor always divided by race? A single asian and everyone else? A single or two black and everyone else? A single Latin and everyone else? And everyone else equals of course the white cast color-blindly enjoying the exotism at it’s finest, partaking in native culture without the natives. Is this heaven or what? In the end, this season is simply a farce, a charade, an attempt to have the natives partake in native culture, however it’s through the lense of mostly white production staff who is mocking the notion of this diversity by having each compete against each other. This displays the mind of the colonizer more than the mind of the colonalized.