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I'm usually baffled by how Asians overestimate the talent of Hollywood hacks who can't even create believable white characters, much less Asian ones. What do they honestly expect from these people?</p>
<p>At least you seem to realize that the most dedicated and talented DO NOT make it to the top in the entertainment biz. Take a look at the top stars: you think they got there because they were best actors in some obscure yet challenging off-Broadway play, or because they were the best students at NYU's film school? If only. Today's top stars are there because studio execs decided that they were bankable and worth promoting. What does bankable exactly mean? Most of the time, it means white ("all-American") and good-looking. Asians can certainly fulfill one of those requirements, but they'll never be the other one. What I'm trying to say is that while your point has validity (too many Asians staying away from fields like politics and entertainment, then complaining about being misrepresented), it's a crooked system to begin with. Just because an Asian person is talented and committed means jack in most cases. Just look at Chow Yun Fat: a charismatic, handsome, and talented actor who's treated like crap in Hollywood. He's HK royalty, but in Hollywood, he's only good enough to be Seann William Scott's sidekick. While there should be some responsibility in the earlier generation of Asians who were mainly concerned with assimilating to mainstream American middle-class society, there also has to acknowledgment of a system that has yet to prove itself willing to allow fair Asian representation.
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Perhaps the reason that Asian men aren't bankable in Hollywood is the same reason they have less success with interracial dating than other non-asian males? Perhaps we should have laws outlawing things like personal preference as well? Then we could be one big happy family.</p>