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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what show was racially diverse in the 80's? Fame. [/quote] That’s because they could dance.[/quote] Flashdance was racially diverse too. It came out in 1983. Footloose in 1984.[/quote] But Footloose was set in a town and focused on parts of the town's community that probably had very little diversity. It was telling that story, not another...[/quote] The film's producers chose to put it in Podunk, Kansas. They could have had largely the same story in Topeka, Kansas and put in a person of color as acknowledgement that all of America isn't lily white. Choices.[/quote] No. Because the whole point was Ren had to move to this tiny, isolated town that had banned dancing. That's a rural, small town story, not an urban story. The lack of diversity 100% made sense in that context. Perhaps they could have had Ren comment on it as part of the culture shock in moving there from a big city. My kids go to a very diverse HS and have commented on "why is everyone White" when we watch some 80s-90s teen movies since that is totally not their experience. We talk about why it would be realistic or not for the time and place. I grew up in an affluent LA suburb and my 2000+ HS had two black students, a handful of Hispanic students, and maybe 10% Asian. I just looked it up and it's still 74% white but larger Hispanic than I recall (13%), 7% Asian, 1% Black.[/quote]
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