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Originally Posted by Damien
It's not about political correctness. It's quite simple:
There is no reason why there should be a ethnic minority character in Midsomer Murders. Yet there is no reason why there can't be.
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Sorry, but the race relations industry disagrees with you on that. This afternoon Judy Ling Wong, the UK Director of Black Environment Network, has told the BBC:
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It's up to programmes like Midsomer Murders, she says, to be more responsible in using the power they have in shaping national identity.
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(emphasis by me)
That's the bit that really gets my goat. To Wong, TV drama can't just be TV drama, but it should be using the 'power' it has over the audience to shape national identity. TV entertainment programmes are not there to do social engineering IMO, but it is clear that in her view, there should be a token ethnic minority presence in the fictional village of Midsomer, no matter how unrepresentative of a real Oxfordshire village that might make it, for the greater good of getting the crusty old rural racists that make up its audience more used to seeing black faces around the place.