I'd guess from my experience in the states that the majority of pool cleaners are hispanic
how racist of Seinfeld to reflect reality.
sorry, but it's a bit of bee in my bonnet. When I worked at the met police, by default we used non-caucasian models and actors in our training materials, because it was safer. however the rate we used them would be at about ten times the actual rate of diversity in the police.
So instead of reflecting actual diversity, which I'm in favour of, we were creating this fake alternate reality where all ethnic background are equally represented, instead of these white pudgy middle aged blokes that are the majority of coppers. there's something dishonest and Orwellian about it. If you wanted more diverse backgrounds in the police, why not hire them, then you won't have to pretend you have them.
This bloke in the video, he could walk into a lot of houses in major american cities and mainly find hispanic pool cleaners. you could even write a funny story about it as a plot in a sitcom. just because he finds the labour inequity distasteful, doesn't mean that it is off-limits for tv. or should everything be the Cosby show?
/end rant
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I don't disagree as such...
but to me, he didn't really seem especially angry at a stereotyped character in a sitcom, more that they wanted a very Caucasian looking guy to put on a comedy Spanish accent instead of just getting a Spanish actor to play the role.
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I remember the episode.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWtgBywxILk
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