Making the news today....

[Johnsond]

3 hours ago, Youngstu said:

It does make interesting reading, but is there really an issue with overrepresentation of minorities (is it a problem if there is overrepresentation) ?

 

If minorities aren't overrepresented then it would (as in the past) seem like the token individuals being included. 

Where we live in the country will also determine how we view this in terms of representing what we know. Living in the South West there are relatively small numbers of BAME individuals so many programmes are unrepresentative of what I see around me, but even with overrepresentation on a national level there would be people around the country who would feel that the levels quoted in the article were underrepresenting groups that they see around them. 

I would argue that in all likelihood over the last half a century minorities have generally been underrepresented on screen in particular and many minorities were probably underrepresented behind the scenes too. Considering this overrepresentation at this time could be a good thing for the general population, raising the profile and importance of BAME people in the country as a whole.  Its also considered to be very important for minorities to be visible in all areas of society so that children and adults  from those minorities see "people like them" in different roles. This is considered by many to be very helpful in improving ambitions and motivations where others from their communities are not seen to be good role models and help towards breaking cycles of crime, antisocial behaviour etc. 

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[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Mike Hill said:

They dropped loads of them Khris.

 

I can see a former U Boat base from across the road from my yard.There is a German destroyer on the bottom of the fjord that was sunk by one and there are loads of craters on Askøy made from "Tall boys" that were jettisoned from damaged bombers,which wouldn't have made it home with a bomb load.

 

They must have dropped 50 around Bergen alone.

 

I know where there is the fuse cover from one lying in the grass. 

Boat I was on recently spent a few days moored at what looked like an old fuelling berth on Askoy??, defo looked WW2 type shuttering marks on the concrete. Seen the same  in Channel Islands on old German bunkers. 

[Youngstu]

27 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I'm not sure, way to many foreigners making there way over here... We are full!

 

Over represented... It's not what I see in everyday life.

Where? 

[Johnsond]

44 minutes ago, Youngstu said:

You shared the article/ report and appear (from what you've said)  feel that it is a problem that needs sorting out. Why does it matter to you if minorities are over represented on our screens compared to national figures? 

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if I had an emoji for verbal diarrhoea you be getting it. 
 

[eggsarascal]

33 minutes ago, Youngstu said:

Where? 

Oh, the irony.

[Guest Gimlet]

Covid must have taken a terrible toll (depending on your point of view) on the UK demographic. Before lockdown, according to commercial adverts and information shorts on TV, all co-habiting couples in the UK were mixed race. Now it appears they're all same-sex.   

[Stere]

 

Wonder if thoose rainbow gay flags all over the place to support NHS  has  annoyed some?

 

 

Kind of weird that every small  rural village  round here now has that gay pride NHS sign next to the village name sign ?

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[Youngstu]

8 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Over represented... It's not what I see in everyday life

 

7 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Oh, the irony.

Quite simple really, where do you not see the diversity in everyday life? and should what you see and are comfortable with be what is represented on TV?

[Youngstu]

8 hours ago, Johnsond said:

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if I had an emoji for verbal diarrhoea you be getting it. 
 

Thanks for contributing such a well thought out defense of one side of the argument or the other.  I guess it makes a change from telling me that I'm spouting drivel!

 

I'm suggesting that maybe our TV content should represent the more diverse parts of our country. 

 

Looking at government data, 83% of the population live in an "urban" situation, with 35% living in an  "urban major conurbation" and 43% in an "urban city and town". Only 17% live in a "rural " situation. These figures are for England as that's the first ones I could find. 

 

Urban areas are generally more diverse than rural areas, so whose normality do you think should be represented on TV?

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

15 minutes ago, Youngstu said:

so whose normality do you think should be represented on TV?

The minority should be over represented according to your own logic - or do you choose to apply it selectively?

 

Is the hypocrisy starting to dawn on you yet?