The whiteness of Australian junk mail

This is obviously not a scientific study, but I hadn't emptied my mailbox for a while and I decided to look at the ethnic makeup of the models used in the unsolicited mail that had built up. My theory: Australian advertisements are incredibly white dominated, with a few Asian people and the odd exoticised person of African descent for pseudo-American coolness. Indigenous people only show up in tourism ads, you're more likely to see people pretending to be American Indian etc. This theory is moderately supported by the junk mail.
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Two things about protagonists

I have no deep thinky thoughts, but I found these essays interesting, especially since I encountered them close together:

Buffy S8, canon Sues, and the impossibility of socialism under Campbell: or Protagonist Privilege

Passive versus Active: DEATH MATCH, or possibly, just a cup of tea