Is The Apprentice Racist

[Big_Tera]

I dont know if anyone watches the BBC show the Apprentice. But I find this show to be blatantly racist. Th Asian contestants are always put down and not taken seriously as the white contestants. Alan the fruitcake sugar also never appoints an Asian person in the finals.

They seem to try and put Asian people in their place and reflects the British society where White managers would rather give promotions to fellow whites then Asian people.

I guess this is what happenes in daily life.

white people favor black christian/carribean people and get along with them more and are racist to asians

[Ranjeet01]

Well to be fair, in the first series there was a black winner with an asian runner up. Also there is a black finalist this year. I think last season there was a Chinese girl who won it.

[JagsawSingh]

If anything, the show's probably been guilty of too much positive-discrimination as far as 'Asians' are concerned. Looking back over the years, with people like Saira Khan, Tre etc....Asians have done remarkebly well on the show and seem to be given a much better chance of progressing than white people especially when some of them are quite sub-standard.

On the whole though, the thing I've noticed over the years, and its something that should give us pause for thought, is the fact that Pakistanis seem to be more confident and self assured than us.

[jkvlondon]

If anything, the show's probably been guilty of too much positive-discrimination as far as 'Asians' are concerned. Looking back over the years, with people like Saira Khan, Tre etc....Asians have done remarkebly well on the show and seem to be given a much better chance of progressing than white people especially when some of them are quite sub-standard.

On the whole though, the thing I've noticed over the years, and its something that should give us pause for thought, is the fact that Pakistanis seem to be more confident and self assured than us.

but then again the pakistanis also are obnoxious and undermining too ... and they would never get the job ...for obvious reasons ...

[sikhiseeker]

but then again the pakistanis also are obnoxious and undermining too ... and they would never get the job ...for obvious reasons ...

WJKK WJKF

Bit of a huge assumption based on nationality?

[sikhiseeker]

WJKK WJKF

I don't find The Apprentice racist at all, however the level of business acumen this series has gone deeply down, kinda childish at times.

[jkvlondon]

WJKK WJKF

Bit of a huge assumption based on nationality?

nah past history of the program over many years

[Ranjeet01]

Most of the contestants are chosen specifically for entertainment purposes. I remember Alan Sugar being disappointed with the calibre of apprentices because they all end up having careers as presenters or as broadcasters.

[sikhiseeker]

Most of the contestants are chosen specifically for entertainment purposes. I remember Alan Sugar being disappointed with the calibre of apprentices because they all end up having careers as presenters or as broadcasters.

WJKK WJKF

Yea that's true. Like that Greek girl from the last series, I don't think I have ever heard any winning contestant do anything special, unlike Dragons Den, what a success story for Levi Roots.

[Ranjeet01]

Alan Sugar's business today is mostly in property/real estate and not in electronics. Also his businesses are run by his sons.

Also I would like to add is that the boardroom in the skyscraper is not his office. His office is in some industrial estate in Essex ( which is what you see when the "fired" contestant leaves for the cab)