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rodneyAnonymous
Since: Aug, 2010
6th Feb, 2017 08:31:12 PM
What about casts that feature three ethnicities, but a fourth is absent? Four and a fifth? People Sit On Chairs
Edited by rodneyAnonymous Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
So there's this tv-show, whose most major characters might be white, but they apparently certainly want to avoid Monochrome Casting, and black people are pointedly also given major recurring roles. Asian people however, never appear. A more rare counterpoint-version is a show featuring white people and Asians, but never any black people. Anyway, the point is: this is not Monochrome Casting since at least two ethnicities / races have important roles, but another race / ethnicity is totally absent. Is there a Trope for this?
EDIT: Jeez,a very snarky reply I only got; but my above question was actually serious, thus let me elaborate:
EXAMPLE OF THE ABOVE:
See Series 7th Heaven. Features a white family as main characters and they are (pointedly?) given a black-family counterpart (almost taken up to extremes, as both families have a husband that's a minister, a wife that's a homemaker, and lots of children. Oldest son of above black family also happens to become the Black Best Friend of the oldest son of afore-mentioned white family in later seasons.
BUT, anyway: Asians don't seem to exist in this show at at all... It features white people, black people, it's a show revolving about a Christian minister that also happens to sometimes feature / mention Jewish or Muslim charaters (yeah I know the latter point regards religion rather than race / ethnicity, but still) but in the end, Asians don't seem to exist. And this show takes place in California, one of the states with the highest percentage of Asians.
Edited by LB7979