Only Asian audience

[smilingcrow]

I was watching cbees with my little un today and i have seen it before and they didn't show the audience however this time they did. All of the audience were not white. Is this the tv trying to provoke us? As a white person I noticed straight away but my wife didn't. Am I racist for thinking this isn't right? It was filmed in the uk

[hc4361]

What was the context? Where was it filmed? Studio, school, street?

Why would it provoke you?

[boxtops]

I doubt I would even have noticed it - of course it's not racist. Am I right in thinking CBBees is filmed at Pebble Mill in Birmingham? - if so it was probably a school audience, the percentage of coloured children in schools round there is extremely high.

Does it really matter, anyway?

[jackthehat]

I doubt that you are racist.........a bit of a chump, yes, but racist......no.

[princerupe74]

what was the programme you speak of, and what time was it on? The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics gave ther impression that the UK population is totally mixed racially. I'm sure that's what the naughty tweeting politician was referring to

[smilingcrow]

I it was in this morning and on in the evening too. I just can't understand why there were no white children in there. I thought we were supposed to be multi cultural. It's one of those things that annoys me really. It looked like a purely Asian school trip. Why are there purely Asian schools? You can't have a white school.

[sherrardk]

Maybe it was from an Asian community centre or playgroup - your reasoning seems a bit off. What programme was it exactly?

[tiggerblue10]

Was it Justin's House? They always show the audience in that and it seems pretty mixed when I see it.

[Hopkirk]

Oh Boxtops, Pebble Mill has been demolished.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ion_oct_gallery.shtml

[NOX]

There are faith schools and there are also other group activities whereby the children attending are LIKELY to be , although not bound to be, Asian.
I think if you filmed at somewhere like the outer Hebrides you would be unlikely to find a single Asian person present and there would likely be only or mostly white children. Would that be racist? I don't think so and don't think this scenario is either. Why are you upset, and your use of the word 'provoke' in such circumstances leaves your motives under question so you might very well be racist, or just an alarmist twit- only you know which.

[Jflowers123]

I was saying the same thing. All the time its white/mixed audience but as soon as an asain kids presenter was on, the whole audience was asain and snapped to the audience most of the time. Its not being racist its just showing a fact. For example if i said there was a group of white people standing down the road thats just a fact of what you see. If i said it was an asain group its still saying what you see. So to answer, you are not racist thinking it isnt right its you having your freedom of speech. Is it trying to provoke us? im not sure. The asain woman presenter who does the show "show me show me" even the kids are asain in it and at certain times its not mixed just asain and via the white/other children get less air time then the asain kids. Part of me suspects if you look at justin and the asain woman its the asain womans "agent" or producer who is opening the door for more for asain children not the cbees department. Remember the reason why there's mixed races on adverts and programs was due to this same statement im making which asain/other races were saying. Were just saying it in return. "where's the mixed audiences?" (the youtube link is the justin house episode im referring to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwz2tG6PH9Q&feature=relmfu