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The latest news about CBS’ reality hit show “Survivor” has a lot of people wondering if this is another ratings ploy. For its new season, “Survivor” will take 20 castaways to the Cook Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. On the latest edition, Survivor: Cook Islands, the 20 contestants will be divided into four tribes by race. The teams are African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and White.

Host Jeff Probst told CBS News’ The Early Show that it was designed as a unique social experiment.

The idea for this actually came from the criticism that ‘Survivor’ was not ethnically diverse enough,” he said. “Because, for whatever reason, we’ve always had a low number of minority applicants apply to the show. So we set out and said, ‘Let’s turn this criticism into creative for the show. I think it fits in perfectly with what ‘Survivor’ does — it is a social experiment. And this is adding another layer to that experiment, which is taking the show to a completely different level.”

CBS’ has drawn a lot of outspoken criticisms from different groups, calling this move insensitive because it will encourage audience members to identify most strongly with the group that corresponds to their particular race, leading to divisiveness between different cultures. As a result, there have been some advertising consequences for “Survivor.”

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