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I found it interesting (though I'm not entirely sure in what way) that all the groups commented on the division but only the black group seemed to place a whole lot of emphasis on "representing" their race. Of course maybe they all did and it was edited down to just that tribe as standard reality show foreshadowing of the episode's result.
I was also glad that one of the Korean girls made a similar point as I did. Wihte people, for the most part, don't really care about our race. The other three tribes have a certain cultural homogeneity for differing reasons.
But my experience with Asian immigrants is that they think of themselves first as American, second as whatever their ancestral national origin is, and a distant third as "Asian." That is, because of common cultural influences a black person will probably feel some bond with another black person even if they came from opposite ends of Africa genetically.
But Koreans, Philipinos, and Vietnamese tend to consider themselves as separate races. Outside of academic identity politics programs I don't think there is so much an "Asian" identity.
Whereas as the block identification for black Americans is much stronger because of the historical record. It would have been very interesting (to me, anyway) to have included an African immigrant on the show, someone who has not been part of that block identification.
Another thing of interest to watch will be how the speech styles of the individual groups (but mostly the black tribe) change when the merge happens. (And not that isn't some kind of insult; I am completely accepting of African-American Vernacular English as a dialect of the language.)
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