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Why were there so many minorities in "Nosedive"? Symbolize something?


African-Americans comprise about 12% of the U.S. population, but they seemed to make up an inordinate share of the speaking/prominent characters in this episode. (Over a third?)

Is their disproportionate representation here symbolic of something? Seems odd.

(Didn't seem to see any other ethnic minorities.)

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I'm sorry you feel that way. Have you considered moving to a predominantly non-white country, like one in Africa?

Also, is the problem more that they're clean ("pristine") or that they're Caucasian?

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Diddo

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You're an idiot.

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I noticed that all the black characters had much lower scores than the white characters. I think this is a message about racism and how unfortunately black people are perceived in society.

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The woman she bumped into seemed classy, but I didn't catch her score.

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It was 4.8

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She was the only exception, the man in jail at the end was black too. I don't think it's coincidental ...

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This was definitely a thing in this episode.






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No, other than Chester, all the black people in the show were 4.5 or higher. I almost think it might have been a black person who created the app. The lady at the airport was black. The man who removed her was black. There were several black people at Naomi wedding.

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Symbolic to piss off racist trolls like yourself

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I was wondering the same thing. Why is it "racist"? Would you wonder if everyone was Asian?

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Thankfully, I'm not the type of person who would notice something like this.


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So you're more of an "All Lives Matter" person than a "Black Lives Matter" person.

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I'm more in the "No Lives Matter" camp.


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So, you call somebody a racist and a "fairy"? That's odd. I think he's an idiot, yes, but your response is no better.

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So weird to me that anybody cares. I honestly didn't even notice. This isn't some kind of PC "colorblind" *beep* because I do notice the race of characters. I just don't count how many of each there are.

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It simply reflected the production company's stable of actors. It's always been a show with more POC than typical American produced ones.

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Maybe because in the dimension of the story, race was irrelevant and only popularity counted.

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