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BBally81 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:56 pm
Also most US shows I've seen still portray doctors as being mostly white.
Because they *are*. With some Asians thrown in.
Then why were you having an issue with black doctors in US shows if their representation in media don't come close to how white doctors and Asian doctors are represented.
I think the preaching is implicit. Like the way hospital shows always have a black doctor, even though less than 3% of doctors in the US are African-American.
Seems like a non-issue to me especially since US media having a black doctor has been a thing since the 90s.
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BBally81 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 20, 2022 8:23 pm
Or maybe an increase of qualified black doctors.
Becoming a doctor requires absorbing a whole lot of information, to the point that the IQ average is 125 and it's considered virtually impossible for people less than 115 to make it. Look at the normal distribution, and determine what percentage of African-Americans are potentially qualified to be doctors.
What's your point?
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Again, seems like a non-issue to me especially since US media having a black doctor has been a thing since the 90s. Heck one of Denzel Washington's early breakthrough roles was playing a doctor on the medical drama St. Elsewhere in the 80s.
So, you're complaining about something that's been there for over 3 decades.
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BBally81 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 22, 2022 12:30 am
Again, seems like a non-issue to me especially since US media having a black doctor has been a thing since the 90s. Heck one of Denzel Washington's early breakthrough roles was playing a doctor on the medical drama St. Elsewhere in the 80s.
Here is the thing, hospital dramas are not out there to 100% represent how hospitals are in real life. It's a drama. It's fictional. And they are not out there to show every single hospital to fully represent the percentage of the different races that make up doctors/nurses.
Its focused on one hospital and its a show trying to get as many people to watch it as possible. If that means they got to show a disportionant percentage of POC as doctors to get those numbers, then so be it. If that means having a black doctor or more in each of these shows, then so be it.
