Thinking of this year’s BBN housemates, I have seen complaints that the casting crew did a very bad job at picking them as the lot are boring and too self-conscious.
However, what you fail to understand is that individually they might have presented a totally different personality: one which they haven’t been able to sustain among other people.
Remember that these people are Nigerians and that Nigerians believe that being part of a group and assimilating the traits that are characteristic of that group are essential for their survival and social advancement.
Think of mob lynching for example. How many of the people who take part in this horrific act can actually singularly make the decision to kill a person?
It takes a lot of self confidence to remain consistent with your personality; to not allow yourself to be intimidated, overshadowed, or obliterated by other personalities.
If you doubt me, think of how you behave when you are in the midst of people who are older, richer, more educated, more travelled, or more social than you and compare that to that how you behave when you are on your own. Are you authentic and consistent on both occasions?
I’m sure the casting crew thought that individually these people were interesting and well-rounded. They couldn’t have foreseen how they would behave in group. Trust me, it would take a behavioural expert to determine that, and, if I may say, BBN was just lucky to have been able to cast confident people (not all, but enough to keep the show alive) in previous seasons.
BBN is a social experiment, so look at this year’s season from that point of view.
Hopefully in the next season Big Brother will involve experts in the selection of their housemates as to avoid the same fiasco that happened this year.
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