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thebruns t1_iuif8n4 wrote

NYC is incredibly diverse and in 236 episodes there are like 5 non-white people with speaking lines including the "sassy black woman" trope for the bus driver

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Latter_Feeling2656 t1_iuiyt6h wrote

There is a lot of sociology to the effect that people who live in large areas that are diverse overall still live insular lives. In other words, the cities are diverse, but the neighborhoods are not. That's Friends.

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thebruns t1_iuiz54t wrote

We could buy this argument for the leading cast, and one could even try for a reach and say that Friends is a criticism of this fact.

The issue is that the cast is also almost entirely white as they interact with the world around them which shows us this is an issue with the studio/writers.

They live in Manhattan, not Staten Island.

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gtreble9 OP t1_iuihm6s wrote

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/adaenechi/we-counted-all-the-black-people-that-appeared-in you’re just wrong.

There was also Paulo and julie

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thebruns t1_iuij5bk wrote

27 over 236 episodes including

>Child looking at Chandler

Nope, I am correct and it looks like you just came here to start some bullshit.

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gtreble9 OP t1_iuimfg5 wrote

So what to you is the right amount of non white people? In a show about 6 white people

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thebruns t1_iuimszl wrote

And there it is.

Amazing how "What is about friends that people deem “problematic” so quickly turned into "So what to you is the right amount of non white people? In a show about 6 white people"

Fuck off with your trolling.

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