Three More Teams!

Okay, three more ARC teams have been announced so far.  Here are the New Teams along with the other two that were announced yesterday.

I'm an Albertan so I initially cringed when I saw the cowboy-hat-wearing dudes from Airdrie and Innisfail. I really didn't want ARC to bring out that tired Alberta cowboy stereotype. It's been done to death, even though the Cowboy team from TAR Season 16 and Unfinished Business, became one of the more popular teams. But then I read further and it hit me; "they're gay cowboys!".  Which in itself is also a stereotype because some of the busiest times for the gay nightclubs in Edmonton is when the rodeo is in town. But it's a great twist on the Alberta cowboy stereotype and I'm keen to see how they deal with other teams. Also, they're the oldest team so far.

As for the other teams, you got one cop and his buddy, plus another cop and her twin sister. Oddly enough, it seems that the two cops have a lot of phobias (fear of heights, falling, bugs, rodents and reptiles for the male one, and fear of heights and confined spaces for the female one). It'll interesting to see if these fears play out because no doubt both cops will talk about all the hard stuff they have to deal with on a daily basis only to have to jump out from a great height or something like that.

Again, it's good to see that for the most part, the teams represent regular Canadians. There are no mactors or celebrities, although we still got four more teams to announce and they could be saving the celebrities for the end. I'd be okay with a team or two of celebrities but since so many average Canadians applied, it'd be good to stay along that line for the make up of the teams.

So far, I'm happy with the teams chosen, although there is a bit of concern as the teams are skewed towards the white and the male (including four dudes with some sort of beard, what's with that?). Canada is a multi-cultural nation so there better be more colour in the next four teams. There should be a lot less Y-chromosomes as well. And for me, as an aboriginal Canadian, I'm hoping for at least one First Nations person (or team) in Canada's first ever Amazing Race; that can't be too much to ask for it, is it? Is it?