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In order to cash in on the current Jersey Shore craze, a Toronto production company has put forth their own pitch reality based show featuring idiots looking to drink too much and publicise their regrets: The Lake-Shore (for those not in the know, Toronto’s southern border is composed by Lake Ontario, and therefore one the most southern roads in the Greater Toronto Area is Lake Shore Road. Hence the name).
I would encourage you to have a look at the video, so you can see the rather accurate description of how multicultural Toronto is. And how the show plans to distort and exploit every cultural stereotype they …
… can think of. The official website is so tactful as to refer to the characters by their ethnicities as opposed to their names. Classy stuff, Lake-Shore.
But this is not so irritating to me as the criticism Canada has received from multiple news sources in regards to this show-to-be (yes, it’s just a pilot with a website right now. It’s not even a show).
“Oh, Canada. They’re always so smug and convinced they can outdo the U.S. But when it came time to formulate a Canadian version of Jersey Shore, they got all PC, casting people of different ethnic backgrounds. Know what? It’s worse…Congrats, Canada. You’re just as horrible as the rest of us.”- Gawker
“Canadian people are really much more confusing than trees and animals and their names are hard to remember, so they just call each other by their ethnicity”- The Hair Pin
“Fellow Americans, if you think our country has problems, I urge you to watch the extended preview for Lake Shore, a Toronto-based reality series that explicitly imitates Jersey Shore but turns up the boozy-sexy insanity and the caveman-like racial sensitivity…But this is Canada, so surely everyone will come together peacefully to break down stereotypes, right? Wrong” – Entertainment Weekly, PopWatch
So they have one thing right – this show is awful. I certainly won’t be watching it. But what they have wrong, is that this show is in no way representative of Toronto, let alone Canada. These psychos in the show are no more representative of Canada then the cast of Jersey Shore is of all of the United States. They auditioned hundreds of fame hungry morons to find these very specialised idiots. The producers weren’t trying to collect a diverse cast to show others how multicultural Toronto is – they were making a cheap grab to get the attention of some of the many cultural groups in Toronto.
Yes, we have morons in Canada. But there are morons EVERYWHERE, and you can’t blame the ridiculous actions of no-name production group and a group of fame-whore idiots on an entire country. After all, I don’t look to The Hills and think all Americans were vapid air-heads (though I did watch Bowling for Columbine and think that Americans are crazy when it comes to guns. I don’t even know anyone who owns a gun…). The fact that this Lake-Shore group is composed of extreme stereotypes of ethnic groups is why it makes it appealing (to some) to watch. If it was the norm, and actually representative of Canada, then it would be far less interesting to people.
So let’s place the blame where it belongs. On the producers of the Lake-Shore pilot. The fact that they are Canadian is no more relevant than if they are male, female, tall, short, Christians, Atheists, or polar bears.
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I want a show about polar bears now. Where do they go when they’re not catching fish or seals? Do they even eat seals? Is there secret tension between members of a polar bear community? What happens when they go clubbing? Do they rub oil into their fur for a fake-baked look?
I NEED TO KNOW.
Polar bears are too busy serving as the main mode of transportation for all Canadians to be concerned with social endeavours.
There’s nothing worse than having to hear about my polar bear’s drunken weekend while it’s giving me a ride home from work. Just get me to my igloo already….ugh!
Um, I am not an grammer nazi (Godwin’s Law execption) but “and therefore one the most southern roads in the Greater Toronto Area is Lake Shore Road” doesn’t sound right to me. Isn’t L.P. some sort of english wiz (I think all the ZL staff is). Am I wrong on this?
*grammar
You asked for it.
Arrrgh! Hoisted with my own petard! Oh the shame of it!
Come on guys, this is way more ethnically diverse than Jersey Shore! I just don’t understand how you guys can be so racist!
@boring. It’s a typo, in that it’s missing the word ‘of’. I apologise for reducing your faith in my English degree. I will try to focus on my typing skills instead of my ideas in my next post, in hopes of protecting your delicate ability to misunderstand sentences when there is preposition missing.
Your ideas? Lets not get to full of yourself Pomeroy, you’re no K. Loud, hell your barely a T. Loder.
You should try sudoku,its fun!
“I’m not a racist. I hate everyone equally. Especially Jewish people”.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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