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Heather Havrilesky has raised some interesting arguments in her article on the new "Survivor," but I believe she misunderstands the outrage many of us feel about CBS' cheap publicity stunt. The reason this resonates so strongly with me is that I object to the single-race characterization of the teams. Everyone is "only" white or "only" black. In real life, many of us have a racial mix somewhere in our backgrounds. As an American of Italian descent married to a Chinese American, and, more importantly, as the mother of a multi-racial child, I find all this talk of "tribes" to be unbearably offensive. What kind of message does this send to my child?
