Channel Seven’s Plate of Origin shows how Australian multiculturalism is defined by white people
Plate of Origin’s ‘Team Australia’ framed ‘whiteness as normal and invisible’ and implied the other teams weren’t ‘”real” Australians’, argue Blair Williams and Kim Huynh in this crossposting from The Conversation.
The grand final of Plate of Origin aired on Channel Seven last night.
Like other blockbuster cooking shows (think MasterChef, My Kitchen Rules), Plate of Origin is billed as a celebration of Australia’s multiculturalism — a rare example where other cultures are shown and discussed on mainstream TV.
But don’t be fooled. Plate of Origin provides a clear demonstration of how multiculturalism in Australia remains defined by white people.
