Update on the worst idea ever

Okay, okay, I take it back.

Survivor: Race Wars (as I like to call it) is changing hearts and minds.

Not least of all the heart and mind of its host, Jeff Probst. Until casting the show, the Washington Post reports, Probst "had not realized that 'Asian' includes Japanese, Koreans and Chinese and that they do not necessarily like each other as a matter of ethnic solidarity."

"When you start talking to a person from Asia, you realize -- Wow! They have all different backgrounds!" gushed Probst, who described himself repeatedly as a 44-year-old white guy from Wichita.

Probst's experience is affecting his daily life, too.

The other day, he told the reporters, he went to his dentist, who is white, and the dentist brought in another dentist, who is Asian. "And I found myself saying to the Asian doctor, 'Where in Asia is your family from?' " The dentist said he was Korean. "The only reason I had the courage to even ask that question or the knowledge to ask that question was I'd just spent 39 days with people from Korea," Probst said.