Here is your new Survivor cast

Art is always controversial.

A Korean is not Chinese or Japanese or Thai. Only a Causasian TV honcho would think to lump a Korean, Chinese or Japanese player in group slapped with an Asian label (ditto for a group of Hispanics).

What is next for ole Mark? Pedophiles against children? Skinheads against...well, anybody who isn't white? Rapist against women? It all happens in real life, but it's absolutely stupid to promote such ideas, which is what Mark is doing with racism. It's not a joke, and it shouldn't be a theme for a game show! Can we say "desperate". This one is going to bite him in the butt...as well as the advertisers. I will not support any advertisers for this show, and I hope America has enough sense to do the same. Racism isn't a game...it's a divisive curse on society that should be discouraged, not promoted as a game show!

wow I was expecting an interesting twist but not this. I kinda like the idea of teams divided by race because it seems like it will make a lot of conflict between teams and that seems like it will make them work harder against each other and that makes for great reality tv!

I could care less about Survivor, but the fact that this has been turned into a Racial issue is ridlculous. I was almost violently ill when I saw the CNN QuickPoll where almost 48% of people thought it was "racist". Are you all Politically Correct Idiots out there? So what if they put blacks with blacks and asians with asians? At the end, they will all come together for your liberal, pansy-attitide needs in several mixed-race tribes.

SO WHAT?!?!?!?!?!

i just realized i never commented on the show itself - it's a great marketing ploy that will probably generate new viewers and bring back others that had stopped watching - at least until the groups start shifting.

If racial diversity was really the issue, there was a perfect way to do it. All they had to do was make teams with one member of each race on each team, and leave it that way throughout the contest. i.e. Let's see what happens when no one has the ability to join alliances along purely racial lines. Maybe, just maybe, individual bonds would have formed that would have overcome skin color -- now we'll never really know. But then, this is Hollywood, after all. Why would anyone expect other than shallow pandering?

well, obed, thank you for telling me what i am then acknowledging that you actually dont't know me.

oh, and thank you for telling me that you know i see what you see, after acknowledging that you, again, don't know me.

and a oh yeah...

If it is anything like the last game they will be separeted in these little groups for all of a day or two before they do the playground pick and it will me much ado about nothing.

Okay everybody, take a deep breath and repeat outloud. It's only a TV show. It's only a TV show. It's only a TV show. Feel better?

The producers of Survivor should have joined some of the TVS chats last season. There were great suggestions to spice it up. I liked the idea of having 2 games of survivor running simultaneously with twins - just to see if the same person won each game.

There was also the suggestion of Extreme Survivor which would involve more difficult challenges and the contestants could raid each other's camps; Armed Forces survivors where the USMC, USN, Army, USAF and Coast Guard all have representatives competing against each other; and simultaneous dual game of all men in one game and all women in the other.

There are lots of ways to keep this game fresh. Too bad the producers can't come up with anything good.