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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
So give us more examples then. Seems pretty simple.
So I take your single anecdote and counter it with my own. Until you provide more evidence, your argument doesn't hold water.
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Well, gee, you’ve really put me on the spot, eh? I suppose the many years I lived in the U.S. is irrelevant and my glasses must have been filthy all of those years (and during recent visits) because, you know, I was looking at so many neighbourhoods from California to Maine and from Washington State to Florida and I could have sworn I saw lots of places where blacks lived strictly among other blacks and whites lived strictly among whites. And I was often told about “black neigbourhoods” where a white man dare not enter for risk of his life but it must have been an exagerration. Yeah, I guess that “one episode” of Stargate is all I have as a referrence point.
In any case, I take the segregation of the U.S. "today" as a fact, not a hypothetical possibilty - and my only reason for posting the thread was for my concern for the future, as opposed the American point of view through American “futuristic” TV shows.
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Originally Posted by squeeeb
FAST FORWARD - and i take great umbrage with the original post. why are you bashing on stargate? ....
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Because I think it sucks and as a citizen of a free country I have the possibility to say what I really think. Is that reply good enough? Thank you.
Ps. I can assure you that I wouldn't take "great umbrage" if you decided to start a thread "bashing" the series "Cops"
. Go ahead. Try it and see.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
COPS the bastion of intelligent TV watchers.
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Indeed. My IQ level has increased by 17 points since the series started!
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Originally Posted by highthief
It's funny how in advertising and television in general you seem to see far fewer mixed-race (especially white-black) couples than you ever do in real life.
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Well, over here you will ALMOST NEVER see a black person together with another black, unless it's a family of refugees from Somalia who don't allow mixed relationships.
What I do find interesting (did I say "interesting"?) is that at least 50% of our news commentators on TV are black (or mixed black) women. But I can tell you that black people are way down the percentage of population in my country. What is the message here?
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Originally Posted by willravel
If you want to talk about racism, look at CBS, ABC, and NBC.
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That's not possible. I'm not American and I don't live in the U.S. I must content myself with TV series for my "fix" of American culture.
