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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take your point OP. But I don’t think footloose is the best example — a film about an insular backwards conservative town afraid of change and modernity—integrating that group would have been difficult for the narrative.

But talk about any of the John Hughes movies, or Fast Times’s, or Bill and Teds, or clerks (I guess that’s 90s).  [/quote]
IMO, the worst offender is actually Friends.

I thought the show was good, but, c'mon.. young people in NYC, and no gay people or minorities? That is until Ross dated two different nonwhite women. I think I read that he thought it was also ridiculous that a show about young people in NYC had zero non white people.

I also read a long time ago that when there were a couple of Asian guest cast, they had to deal with racism.

Friends started in the 90s.  [b]Seinfeld was just as bad[/b], actually. 
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Really?

Main character is Jewish.  His best friend (George) is half jewish/half catholic.

Recurring characters:

Jackie Childs - AA
Larry the Cook - AA
Mickey Abbott - Little Person
Babu Bhatt - Pakistani
Soup Nazi - Iranian (I think)

And the list goes on.

There's also episodes that address race head on, like when Jerry dates a Native American women, or when Elaine thinks she's dating a black man and he thinks he's dating a hispanic women

"So what, we're just a couple of white people?"

It actually did a great job of reflecting the diversity of the city, but also acknowledging the reality that people mostly stick to their tribe for their more personal connections.

You're wrong about Seinfeld[/quote]

Does anyone remember Donna Changstein - the Jewish girl from Long Island who adopted Chinese speech mannerisms and would imply she was Chinese over the phone only for everyone to be disappointed when they actually met her?
When George's mom met her, she exclaimed "You're not Chinese!" after Donna spouted some Confucian wisdom to her over the phone.
This ethnicity fishing episode was way before the Kardashians.[/quote]

Lol.  That's a great episode.

In fact, the more you think about Seinfeld, the better it is from a 'representation' perspective.

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