"Broadcasting a World of Whiteness" is this recent article that we read this week about a show called Girls on HBO having bigotry suggestions towards their casting decisions. Apparently this new t.v show series have an "all white cast" with an couple of interracial people (with few lines).
This article is written by Jon Caramanica who believes that the show also has racial comments like in episode 2 when "Adam promises to make the “continent of Africa on” Hannah’s arm" and when
"Jessa (Jemima Kirke), nervously facing down an abortion, insists, “I
want to have children with many different men, of different races,” as
if they were trinkets to be collected, like key chains or snow globes."
Some people think that the cast should be more diverse, but other people think it shouldn't be changed because it is a okay show and has a lot of hits. The creator Lena Dunham doesn't have to put someone she doesn't want to put in, she probably thinks it could mess up the whole flow of the show.
I'm not saying that I am okay with an all white cast, cause i am not. Also the screen play lines is just a conscience that they sound that way. I am just saying maybe it could and maybe it couldn't. But if some people from different nationalities was put into the flow of the show it would get the bigotry comments.

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