<p>this forum is soo *<strong><em>ing funny man...who gives a *</em></strong>. That's life.</p>
<p>hahaha this thread is hilarious.</p>
<p>Seriously i'm asian and not offended by any of this stuff (but I NEVER watched the Disney channel in my life).</p>
<p>btw multiracial friendships are very common around here, since the area around here is so diverse (S.F. bay area). True, most minorities tend to hang out in their own groups but I know quite a few people who have friends of all races.</p>
<p>hahahha i have not had the chance to see the last three, four posts...hehe this is so funny xD </p>
<p>my mom cut cable, so i havent watched dc for a while. i wonder what they're doing with azns now. lol</p>
<p>Political correctness doesn't really exist where I'm from. We say all kinds of "racist" jokes but no one thinks of them as being racist. I guess it's just because we're more laid back than them East Coasters...but then I'm stereotyping. </p>
<p>P.S I am friends with all sorts of people from different cultures, religions, and races...and it never really crossed my mind that we're different in anyway.</p>
<p>What about Lalaine from Lizzie McGuire? Wasn't she an asian before Jake Long...maybe?</p>
<p>Anyway. I'm more offended by Disney's making a Cinderella III. That's so much worse.</p>
<p>Me too. </p>
<p>The milk has run dry, Disney.</p>
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<p>I thought she was hispanic.</p>
<p>Edit: Proud of being Filipino-American, she is of Filipino, Chinese[1] and Spanish descent. "People ask me, 'Are you Spanish?' … I say I have Spanish in me but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities and I will always be proud of being a Filipino."</p>
<p>From wikipedia. ^^</p>
<p>Lol the entertainment industry in America hates Asians so w/e man.</p>
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<p>so true. :P hehe</p>
<p>Asians make up 3% of the American population...simply starring in a show probably means they are overrepresented.</p>
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<p>Take it into context. A TV show about Southern kids trying for football scholarships? Most likely no Asians. But a TV show about a big hospital in a major city? Should be tonnes of Asians, but in TV land, there are no such things as Asian, especially Asian male, doctors. But they're probably right. It's not like as if any of us personally know an Asian guy who's into medicine.</p>
<p>On a brighter note, Asians have recently been overrepresented on reality shows such as Survivor.</p>
<p>Also on a brighter note, Asian countries make fun of other ethnicities. Ok maybe thats a "darker" note lol. We do it so America can do it too. This topic is funny btw. lol</p>
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Take it into context. A TV show about Southern kids trying for football scholarships? Most likely no Asians. But a TV show about a big hospital in a major city? Should be tonnes of Asians, but in TV land, there are no such things as Asian, especially Asian male, doctors. But they're probably right. It's not like as if any of us personally know an Asian guy who's into medicine.
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Didn't I already use this argument on you? That blacks were overrepresented as doctors in TV?</p>
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<p>why, thank you! :D it'd be funnier if you watched this ghetto movie disney channel made once: its called wendy wu the homecoming warrior or something...hehe</p>
<p>I love how half the shows on Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, etc. star black or Asian characters (usually as sidekicks).
I bet they get grant money for it.</p>
<p>Blacks are definitely over represented on pretty much every TV channel, especially MTV, VH1, BET, Oxygen, Disney, and Nickelodean. Is affirmative action applied to acting, too? Or do channels just want to be seen as more diverse, or trying to connect the audience with their own culture or color? Although, it's not really diverse when half the TV shows star blacks but they only consist of ~10% of the US population.</p>
<p>Asians are definitely one of the most under represented ethnicities in entertainment. It's ridiculous. 4% of the US population is Asian and I'm sure less than 1% of television actors are of Asian ethnicity.</p>
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<p>The number of white actors in a medical drama still vastly outnumber the number of black actors. And since you yourself argued that TV is fiction and thus subject to some artistic freedom, it only makes economic sense to add a black doctor here and there to increase the show's demographic reach. At most, there are only maybe two major black characters in an ensemble cast. How many white actors are there? Eight? Ten? Where do you think the slots for Asians should come from? The few black roles, or the sea of white roles? </p>
<p>I'm not saying that every TV show has to have reality down to statistical accuracy, but the fact that in TV-land, the medical field has no Asian presence (especially male presence; you can't put in a sexually available Asian woman and disingenuously call it a victory for both minorities and feminism) is like making a documentary about the history of NYC and excluding the presence and contribution of blacks, Jews, or Italians.</p>
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<p>Not based on the demographics of the US. (%)</p>
<p>To be honest, I don't know that many Asian actors/actresses in Hollywood, apart from Sandra Oh and Lucy Liu. </p>
<p>And yes, blacks are over-represented, and have to be, otherwise the NAACP (The "Reverand' Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson and other civil rights activists) will cite racial discrimination and yak about slavery and injustice in america.</p>