Does this sound familiar ? .. I’m sure that it will if you watch TV and are a ‘soap’ fan, or enjoy ‘crime’ and ‘action’ series with story lines about the lives of cops, fire fighters, medics etc. where the main characters are nearly always married to someone from a different racial group, with one member of the family being gay and probably another being an elderly person with signs of dementia or a child with a physical handicap. Oh! .. and don’t forget the angst-ridden teenager.
They will have friends and work colleagues who are lesbian, transgender or have mental health problems, and of course the ‘new guy’ who just happens to be a ‘veteran’ with ‘PTSD’ or a young lady wearing a hijab.
If these characters are essential to the story-line that’s fine, but, to ‘sprinkle them about’ as what I call “diversity dressing” is just stupid and, I could be wrong, but I suspect, not too pleasing (if not insulting) to people in the groups depicted.
Ah! .. and guess what is likely to happen when you are watching one of these programmes ? .. Your enjoyment or otherwise will probably be interrupted by a commercial break featuring TV’s ubiquitous …
… “dual heritage” family !
bigjohn 
