Jeff Probst vs....150 years of intellectual development

"Whether an advance from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous is or is not displayed in the biological history of the globe, it is clearly enough displayed in the progress of the latest and most heterogeneous creature - Man. It is alike true that, during the period in which the Earth has been peopled, the human organism has become more heterogeneous among the civilized divisions of the species..." Source.
- Herbert Spencer. Progress: Its Law and Cause, 1857

"When you start talking to a person from Asia, you realize -- Wow! They have all different backgrounds! Asians, include Chinese and Japanese and Koreans and they don't necessarily get along... This is stuff maybe I should know." Source.

-Jeff Probst. 'Surviour' Host, 2006

So here you have two white men who see variety/heterogeneity in their own race but when it comes to 'fringe peoples' like, err..I don't know, Asians they are pressed to see much difference.

How do these two men differ?

Well, Mr. Spencer applied Darwinist theories to elaborate his theory of Social Darwinism which were used by German anthropologists and later Nazi theoreticians.

Mr. Probst remains the blistfully unaware benevolent host, that... golly-gee, can't believe Asian people aren't all the same!

Yes, Mr. Probst, changes are afoot that even you have not been informed of.

Plus les changes plus les memes choses. (sp?)

P.S. I know there's an accent over the "e" in "meme", and I know my acknowledgement of my purposeful-ignorane (P.I) is that which is endearing of me to you.