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nonsense

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Why?

infact don't bother answering. because we'll have the PC people accusing us of being racist again. :rolleyes:

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because as usual you are seeing conspiracy where there is none

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There's no conspiracy. it's just there. as clear as 2 colours.

as I said. I have no problem with it. but it does come across as patronising.

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they are just there because they where just there not because someone said "get me some actors and models and make sure some are black"

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19035583

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You can only hope and guess. you can't know.

do you agree that it was a concious decision for the black and white couple and their child they used?

or was it just the woman said I want to play the part of his wife?

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God, does she look stupid or what?

it's a weird pic. the 2 of them at the front look superimposed.

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no i don't agree ,it could have been and it could have been just coincidence either way it doesn't matter .If they deliberately chose a black and white couple they must have "hand picked" a white person just as much as they "hand picked" a black person .

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No, I don't mean a concious decision of which 2 faces they used. I mean a concious decision to use a black and white couple to depict as a typical British family.

you have to take into account that this is being broadcast all over the world. so with that reasoning you have to wonder if and even why they wanted to depict the typical British family in this way.

you have to remember that a lot of countries won't know what a typical British family is. and this is what they will think it actually is.

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Are we talking about the lad and girl in the music sequence? (where he finds her phone).

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No, the original mum and dad and the young boy in the house. probably her mum and dad.

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I saw it as a typical British family who happened to be of mixed colours ,which of course is quite normal in most countries including this one.

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It's the sequence immediately after mr bean where the mum and her son are coming home in the mini.

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Thanks, both.

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But you have to admit that a really typical British one is 2 white ones right?
like the mini is originally British. you have to get things just right.

but in this case Britain really likes to boast to the world about being a multicultural society. (so is America. no big deal) so to emphasise that point they used a black and white couple to depict the typical British.

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It could be the neighbours' son though...