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Obviously MTV is ALL about the drama, not the politics, because there was no gay person on vegas. And, if I'm being honest, I think they look for people who are trying to be a PERSON, not a black person, or a white person, or a gay person, just A person. I am a hispanic living in a predominantly hispanic area (southern AZ) and I don't speak spanish, I don't pronounce my last name "correctly" and I don't hang out with anybody who is super out there with their heritage. Not that I think you shouldn't be! People who are proud of their background have every right to be, and I admire them for having that connection. But I don't think people who see themselves as more than an ethnicity should be criticized, as well as the producers of reality TV shouldn't be criticized for not putting more diverse casts on their shows. They are looking for interesting people, not trying to show the diversity of the country. They dont have enough spots on the cast to have every race in the country represented. There will always be someone left out and upset.
As far as the whole tri-state area thing, for shows like RR/RW they hold auditions all over the country, and ask that you send in video (they even held auditions in my little Tucson) but for shows that don't have the history/following of the bigger ones, they want auditioners that can come to the studio for call backs a lot more conviently, since they probably don't have a big budget.
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