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> Apted acknowledged flaws with the show, saying it was a "horrible error" to have only four women in a cast of 14 when making the original selection I am more
by unpopularopp 22d ago
> Apted acknowledged flaws with the show, saying it was a "horrible error" to have only four women in a cast of 14 when making the original selection
I am more surprised they could only found 14 white kids even in 1964!
A show like this would be very different today.
- Mountain_Skies 22d agoWhy is that surprising? In 1961, the UK was 98.5% British White. By 1971, it was still 97% British White. That fourteen people of that time period would be British White isn't unlikely.
- xp84 22d agoIt's always funny to watch people project today's dogma onto a time period when it was wildly inapplicable. "Where's the diversity!?!?!!"
- gnfargbl 22d agoOne of the participants, Symon, is mixed-race.