My Super Indigenous People
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- January
- 17
Um, barf.
So, we have the, like, incredible brats of MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 starring in a new MTV reality show dubbed Exiled! These spoiled rotten teens will be shipped off to “far-off lands like Africa and Antarctica” to live with “indigenous tribes” and gaining (so hope their parents, who gave their children everything they ever asked for and so caused them to be the selfish brats that they are — I’m sorry, was that too judgemental?) an “altered world view.”
So reports Broadcasting & Cable magazine.
Now forgive me if I’m wrong, but My Super Sweet 16 chronicles the Sweet 16 preparations and party for rich girls who whine and pout and treat their parents like crap in order to get the biggest, bestest Sweet 16 party, like, ever.
I’m not proud. I’ll admit I’ve seen more than one episode. I stumbled upon it one day when the kids were napping a couple years ago (hey, they’ve napped since; I just haven’t) and stared at it, slack-jawed in utter amazement and disgust. I think it was a MSS16 marathon and I was glued to the set until the wee ones woke up. (Thank goodness I have boys, I thought to myself.)
But the thought that their parents want them to gain an “altered world view” and learn to be less selfish is amazing to me. It is utterly apparent in watching these shows (and don’t go saying it’s all in how the show is edited, because if the kids weren’t totally spoiled, they wouldn’t even be on this show in the first place if they weren’t because their parties wouldn’t be so “super”) that their parents are completely responsible for how their children became as selfish and spoiled as they are.
B&C said MTV stumbled upon the idea while trying to figure out how to make the show fresh and new beyond the seventh season (in production now). They’ve already created international editions, a scripted movie and an online contest.
Discovering whether the girls are plucky as well as lucky fits in with what MTV programming executives said points to a trend of young people pursuing more philanthropic, pay-it-forward behavior.
Dave Sirulnick, MTV’s exec VP of multiplatform, production, news and music, had this to say:
Some of these girls had very little awareness of what was going on around them and were very self-centered. We thought, ‘Here’s an opportunity.’
Um, ya think?
MTV turned to the United Nations and other NGOs to help find the “indigenous families” these teens will live with for the show’s duration.
I absolutely hate to say it, but I have a feeling that if I happen to stumble upon Exiled! while flipping through the channels one day, I just may have to stop and take a look.
Sigh.
Photo courtesy of MTV.ÂÂ
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