Forced Diversity in Television

I feel like anything that is obviously forced into a show is bad.

But I grew up in a time when seeing more than one African-American or Asian-Australian character on a tv show was the norm. It wasn't like 'look! here is this one slightly olive-complected human!' It was like, "this is a show about humans and humans come in all different shapes and sizes - no surprise to you since you too are a human".

It's dumb when there's one African-American kid in school out of 50 white people. And even his parents are white. But if the show treats the world as it is - diverse - then no problem.

Devil's advocate: TV is fantasy, and there should be no expectation it reflects reality.

But the forced diversity is so absurd at times it's an easy indicator of garbage series and movies.

Fuking A you're right.

I'm getting tired of all the inter-racial couples. It's ridiculous! I've seen only 2-3 in my entire life, and yet on tv, (particularly those shitty ABC shows), they act like every other couple is black and something else mixed in. I don't know of the tv producers have looked around lately, but frankly, most people like to stick with their own ethnic group, and I'm not just talking about white people. Asians, blacks, Hispanics, middle-easterners, they all wanta date people who are like them. It's actually very rare, in fact, for people of different ethnic groups to fall in love, even here in diverse America.