Should a country's media be genuinely ethnically representative?

[lameduck]

In Pakistan media personalities like news casters , actors and actresses do lean toward lighter end of spectrum but they do look Pakistani, but you are right very dark Pakistanis are completely absent from showbiz except some models (where dark is considered exotic).

[Tooting Carmen]

In Pakistan media personalities like news casters , actors and actresses do lean toward lighter end of spectrum but they do look Pakistani, but you are right very dark Pakistanis are completely absent from showbiz except some models (where dark is considered exotic).

Well in Colombia the newsreaders are actually quite representative - as are the hosts of sports programmes and documentaries - but the actors and entertainment presenters, especially in the godawful telenovelas, are very disproportionately White/quasi-White.

[lameduck]

Well in Colombia the newsreaders are actually quite representative - as are the hosts of sports programmes and documentaries - but the actors and entertainment presenters, especially in the godawful telenovelas, are very disproportionately White/quasi-White.

In terms of South Asia , you should also consider that it is one of poorest regions in the world with poverty level only comparable to sub saharan africa , most People are malnourished, dirt poor and tanned but when they will become richer they will start achieving full potential of their looks and difference between them and Media people will start decreasing drastically.

[Hyoga7]

I think certain BBC sub channels and cable channels are overrepressented with Non Whites.....

Sorry to barge in, but I came across a video analysis of Walking Dead in ethnic/gender/sexual terms. Quite interesting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D9hlbhPOhU&t=8s

Nowadays some TV shows of the XXth century would probably be censored.
And heroes like Captain Kirk or Michael Knight would be deemed "machist" and couple more "ists"...

[CostaRicaBall]

Here always been ok, but recently media starts to do blackwashing. I mean, blacks(mulattos included) are less than 10% of country's population but always been 1 or more in a group of less than 8 persons. That is unrepresentative in all senses. Nicaragua and Honduras don't do this, why we do? No make sense.

It's probably that is same "inclusive" trend started in USA. But well....
Same with chinese, and those are mainly in markets. But outside are atypical.

[CostaRicaBall]

Aswering the question of the thread that depend of the agenda. I mean, in USA 47% of the TV publicity is portrayed by blacks but blacks are around of 13% of country's population. In other words, non-hispanic whites and hispanics are not represented. But is because the trend of being more "inclusive". In Chile germanic whites are overrepresented in media, but is not a problem to the population. So I don't see problem if the majority of population feel agree about how their population as a whole are represented in media. Same with japanese in their cartoons. Most of them are black haired or brunnete but the cartoons have a lot of people with blonde, green, blue, purple....hair and they don't have problems.

[Erronkari]

Of course, but it's not only something ethnic, but also geographic.
In our shit-soap-operas/shit-novelas, which talking about the domestic service (maids and buttlers) they have the same looking to the rest of the people and the worst is that they talk with the accent of the central region of the country.
That's a huge baloney.
These people in really life usually look more mixed than the local people and talk in other accents because more than 80% who take those jobs are foreigners.
And the rest are local people but of other regions.
And it's thus since I was born.
Probably until 90s more people of inner the country but outside of the central area used to do those jobs.
But now less...
And for people of the central region it's extremely atypical.
Even, in the shit-novelas they don't want to represent the reallity for sure.
P.s.: When I talk "shit"-novelas I only talk about national ones.
I love colombian, brazilian, and also some turkish and corean ones.
With my wife we see many of them quite often.
But I hate local ones, I find them as the worst....

[rajputprincess]

Here always been ok, but recently media starts to do blackwashing. I mean, blacks(mulattos included) are less than 10% of country's population but always been 1 or more in a group of less than 8 persons. That is unrepresentative in all senses. Nicaragua and Honduras don't do this, why we do? No make sense.

It's probably that is same "inclusive" trend started in USA. But well....
Same with chinese, and those are mainly in markets. But outside are atypical.

Only black people get representation irrespective of population.

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[The Lawspeaker]

Our media should only represent one people: the Dutch themselves.

[Marmara]

It is more-or-less an open secret that in many countries around the world - Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Pakistan and India to name but a few - the media is far from being truly ethnically representative, and usually instead disproportionately favours lighter-pigmented actors, TV presenters and models. Is this an acceptable situation, or should active measures be carried out to change this?

It's only a fucking assumption for Turkey, we have many Television people with different looks.