'If reality TV has a genuine interest in making more diverse shows, they need to create a level playing field' sagalxmo
Is this the kind of representation we even want? If Black and Brown people are selected for the show and up playing second fiddle to the white contestants and become the firsts to be ‘pied off’ when it comes to dumpings and recouplings, then frankly, we’d rather be left out of it altogether.
like Hinge, Tinder and Bumble have shown over the years that Black women and Asian men receive the least amount of ‘right swipes’. Racial discrimination in dating isn’t a new thing but if reality TV as a genre has a genuine interest in creating more diverse shows, then they need to create a level playing field for all contestants.
The US version of Love Island is a prime example of how this can be done. Both the second and third season of the show resulted in Black couples whose love stories we got to watch blossom in the villa. In fact, season two’s Justine Ndiba and Caleb Corprew made history as the first Black couple to win Love Island — something we have yet to see on the UK version of the show.
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