New ‘Survivor’ to divide teams on racial lines

Cory Bergman August 23rd, 2006

Hmmm, this will generate a little controversy. For the first half of the new Survivor season this fall, the teams (”tribes”) will be divided by race: African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics and whites. “I know it’s going to be controversial. I’m not an idiot,” said producer Mark Burnett. “I really don’t believe there are many people who hate each other because of their race. But even though people may work together, they do tend in their private lives to divide along social and ethnic lines.”