Racial Divide or Survival of the Fittest?

Is it really racial divide or survival of the fittest? And are we talking about contestants or reality shows? In what appears to be an attempt to surpass their depressed ratings, “Survivor” The Reality Show has chosen to divide the participants of the 13th season into tribes based on race. The new season shot in Cook Islands in the South Pacific begins September 14th. There will be four tribes consisting of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and White contestants. Many viewers and some community leaders are in an uproar over this decision citing it as wrong, and if they had their way it would not happen. The host Jeff Probst stated this particular approach was taken because of cries that the show was not diverse enough and cites the choice of division as a social experiment. My question is who really is the social experiment? Is it the contestants and the way they will play off of each other, or is it America observing as social scientist viewing the contestants as laboratory rats? When you think about it, aren’t we all laboratory rats to the networks?