Love Island: Does the show have a race, age and body diversity problem?

Perhaps she is mixed, but it means she’s not white. Eyal is Jewish, ‘Jewish’ are generally considered an ethnicity. Where have you arrived at that conclusion about Niall? If you look on Instagram you’ll see pictures of him with family who you can see don’t like white, however his mum is white. Clearly you’re just making guesses.

Even if we assume that all of your guesses are correct that would lead to 9 of the 38 being non white which equates to 23% non white, around twice as frequent as non whites occur in the general population.

So you’re insinuating that all of the people in the house with the exception of Frankie are ‘colourist’?

I'm not saying they're colourist (why the brackets) but its clear that everyone in there has preferences in terms of race overwhelmingly not towards ethnic minorities.
how else are you finding out this stuff without guessing, how did you figure jack wasn't white? and tbh I wouldn't call a Jewish person an ethnic minority. Also, why are we looking at it as ethnic minorities as opposed to looking more specifically at what ethnicities? Large number of mixed/light skin people as opposed to darker skinned people. I mean use Niall as an example of idk what you think he is Asian/Pakistani? why use a mixed person as opposed to a darker one?

So because one of the contestants on the show wasn’t chosen by the one ‘single’ girl that shows that the preference of everyone is not ethnic minorities? What about all of the other people on the show who are ethnic minorities who have found partners?

I remember hearing someone say Jack was mixed, however I could find anything to substantiate it hence why I let it go, I’ve only counted the people that I know aren’t white. I haven’t just looked at them and made random guesses.

2 of the 38 have been darker skinned black people, that equates to 5.2% which is almost twice as frequently as all black people, light or dark, appear in the general population so they’re still being overrepresented.

As for why there are few Asian people on the show; I don’t know, there could have been fewer applications, they could have not performed as well during the application process or the casting directors at the company producing Love Island could be racist, who knows.

Yes, but when I talk about darker skinned people I am not just talking about black people I am talking about darker skinned Asians like Sri Lankans, Indians. I mean I can't say for sure but it's worrying that there are so many more lighter skinned/mixed contestants than darker skinned ones.

I am not talking about Idris solely but am also referring to Samiras experience. And obviously, not everyone chosen had that preference since Samira did end up in a couple after all this time but its clear the majority of people do have the preference.

With 85,000 applicants or whatever I'm sure there wasn't a shortage of Asian applicants I'm not even sure if I would call it diversity if you have someone who looks white with a tan

But what about Megan, Laura, Kaz and Georgia? All have either ended up with someone who’s an ethnic minority or, in the case of Georgia, repeatedly said her type is light skinned black guys. You seem keen to dismiss all light skinned people from being ethnic minorities. None of the light skinned people look like whites people with a sun tan.

You can’t be sure that there wasn’t a shortage of applications, you don’t know. I would suggest that there would have been proportionately fewer applications from south Asians. You can’t be sure of the cause of the lack of South Asian people but it appears you’re off the opinion that it caused by some form of racism

there is a lack of diversity of IQ.... they are all in the range 70 to 90

smh

and another gives policy advice to Damien Hinds (having previously worked for Michael Gove).

Well she has worked in both their private offices. That doesn't prove she is in the Fast Stream of course, but those are the kind of jobs they tend to give them early in their careers.

And even if she isn't, she clearly can't hold down such a job with an IQ of 70!

i agree... she is probably at the upper end of the range i mentioned

A lot of the light skin people look mixed and im not dismissing them as not ethnic minorities I think they have done well in representing them but there is a lack of darker skinned people and people who are attracted to darker skinned people. Going by your list Niall looks exactly like he could be a white person who tans a lot.
What I'm saying is looking at ethnic minorities as a whole vs whites won't be too useful as you are right they are overrepresented. As of recent lighter skin women/men have been viewed as more attractive than darker skinned men/women.

No we can't say why there aren't any south Asians on the show but there definitely is a lack of them which isn't good imo. I can't imagine in any way shape or form there weren't suitable south Asian applicants in the whole 85000 applicant pool.

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