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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 220151" data-attributes="member: 68">I don&#039;t agree. It would be about representing the real world we live in. Not about all the things you mentioned. There were 6 main characters on FRIENDS all white. For a long time people of colour just weren&#039;t seen on shows, and still it&#039;s happening. By your reasoning the producers of shows wouldn&#039;t cast people of colour because that&#039;s just &quot;superficial&quot; and that&#039;s a whole other problem. We don&#039;t live in a white world so people of all ethnicities should be cast in shows. It wouldn&#039;t be oh, FRIENDS cast a token black or Asian to meet a diversity quota. It would be oh, look FRIENDS is happening in a realistic representation of New York. An actor who wants the world to know they exist!The storyline wouldn&#039;t be about the actors skin colour. They would simply be cast to show that they exist and to give equal representation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 220151, member: 68"] I don't agree. It would be about representing the real world we live in. Not about all the things you mentioned. There were 6 main characters on FRIENDS all white. For a long time people of colour just weren't seen on shows, and still it's happening. By your reasoning the producers of shows wouldn't cast people of colour because that's just "superficial" and that's a whole other problem. We don't live in a white world so people of all ethnicities should be cast in shows. It wouldn't be oh, FRIENDS cast a token black or Asian to meet a diversity quota. It would be oh, look FRIENDS is happening in a realistic representation of New York. An actor who wants the world to know they exist! The storyline wouldn't be about the actors skin colour. They would simply be cast to show that they exist and to give equal representation. [/QUOTE]

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