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<p>Oh, gee, let's look at the demographics.</p>
<p>White - 75.1% 2000 Census, 81.7% 2003 CIA WFB est.
Black - 12.3%, 12.9%
Hispanic - 12.5%, N/A (CIA WFB claims that they could be any other ethnicity...>_>)*
Asian - 3.6%, 4.2%</p>
<p>*According to CBS circa 2003, Hispanics now comprise ~13% of the population.</p>
<p>What's more, Census 2000 says that of the households in which a non-english language is spoken, 59.85% speak Spanish; far behind at number two is Chinese (not even split between Mandarin and Cantonese, mind). The percentage of Spanish speaking households is sure to have gone up, and probably at a greater rate.</p>
<p>So yes, there is more diversity, and yes, we do constitute more than whites in Asian countries, but we also have more ethnicities to pander to. Now, unless one want to have shows have a quota which they must meet at the expense of good casting, one ought to see the sense in this. I mean, not only is the pool of potential viewers smaller (that is the most important part), but to compound this, the pool of potential actors is smaller as well. I'd say that what we see is fairly representative, save for Blacks, who are over-represented on the screen - we should be seeing slightly more of Hispanics.</p>
<p>But hey, I've never liked quotas, and would hate to have them hiring just for the sake of seeing the colors of the rainbow on my TV screen. I'm not that prudishly PC. Xp</p>
<p>As for Asians on the screen, off the top of my head...</p>
<p>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Hero (and all those Jet Li movies)
Memoirs of a Geisha (even if they did cast a whole bunch of Chinese people as Japanese...<_<).
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle... (LOL, sorry).
Kill Bill.
All those Jackie Chan movies...
Joy Luck Club (sorry, just watched it again Xp).
All those Bruce Lee movies...
Heck, all those kung-fu/wushu movies...XD
Etc.</p>
<p>And the small screen?</p>
<p>Those people on Lost. (Sorry, I don't like Lost :p)
Those people on Heroes. (Ah...gotta watch more o' that show...:p)
William Kim in Prison Break.
A whole lot of voice acting. XD
Some dude on SVU (Wong something?).
A buncha sci-fi shows ala Star Trek and BSG, haha... (GO GRACE PARK! :D)
Gilmore Girls? I swear I heard something...
The plethora of channels offered on cable/satellite.
William Hung...XD (Again, sorry!)
AZN Television, for cryin' out loud! (I keep getting emails from them just because I voted for Grace Park...)</p>
<p>And of course, heaps of supporting/guest appearances.</p>
<p>Meh, I think we're doing fine enough. And about stereotypes - well, we don't suffer the worst of it.</p>
<p>If we really wanted to see more Asians on TV, forget about becoming actors/actresses, because the demographics help dictate the hiring process. Instead, we should focus on having more babies.</p>
<p>...What? :D</p>