Social Asian-American Actors: "Why Won’t Hollywood Cast Actual Asians for Asian Characters in the Script?"

[TSO]

What’s up with this collective begging. If you want to see a movie with more Asians in it, get off your ass and introduce something. Invest in someone that’s trying to do something like that. Stop crying every time the world doesn’t look exactly the way you want it. That’s not a solution.The response of a logical and normal man is to see what he can contribute. Nagging is not a natural response.

More "all Asian" movies are made than all movies combined that don't include them.

 

[Queen B]

And here is a Japanese man interviewing Japanese people on their thoughts about this so-called "whitewashing":



Spoiler alert -- when asked, the Japanese fans were fine. They thought it was a good choice, Scarlett was beautiful, looked like the character, and that a Western Actress helped it looked more like an "anime."

When they were asked why they thought there was a controversy in America, they couldn't imagine why. They thought maybe Americans wanted a "better actor" in the role. They had no idea that white guilt leftists were up in arms AGAIN claiming to be butthurt for a race of people they think are too stupid to be butthurt on their own.

That's all. You are now returned to your bitch-fest of dumb, white leftist Americans getting offended because no one else is offended that they are offended.

1. A 5 person sample size.
2. Those are Asia Asians and not Asian Americans

 

[Lord Coke]

There's almost no white to Asian racism these days.

There's almost no white to Asian racism these days.

How many Asian are discriminated by policies put in place by white people that benefit white and black applicants over Asian applicants in jobs and school?

 

[TSO]

How many Asian are discriminated by policies put in place by white people that benefit white and black applicants over Asian applicants in jobs and school?

None.

 

[Lord Coke]

None.

So the Asian American coalition is currently suing Harvard for a lark?

 

[Roaming East]

So the Asian American coalition is currently suing Harvard for a lark?

suing schools is the new hotness.

 

[TSO]

So the Asian American coalition is currently suing Harvard for a lark?

If you base reality on what a group of activists are currently doing you're too stupid to debate.

 

[Lord Coke]

If you base reality on what a group of activists are currently doing you're too stupid to debate.

So Harvard does not have a racially discriminatory policy that puts white and black students over Asians?

 

[TSO]

So Harvard does not have a racially discriminatory policy that puts white and black students over Asians?

No.

 

[Lord Coke]

No.

You are just willfully ignorant then. See ya.

 

[4daLuLZ]

Business as usual from Hollywood.

That's why I laugh when ppl say Hollywood's influencing the public.

The public influences Hollywood. Not the other way around. If Hollywood had its way, blacks would still play Uncle Toms or barbarians awaiting their white saviours.
No interracial mixing either. Whites playing all major roles. ............wait, I guess nothing's changed much. Lol.

The depiction of gays and women in Hollywood has improved because ublicly perception of them has improved. Not the other way around.


Porn, on the other hand, is the great equalizer. Asians play Asians and frequently in starring roles. Blacks get "meaty" roles. Interracial mixing and all.

 

[TSO]

You are just willfully ignorant then. See ya.

No, I operate on an innocent until proven guilty stance. You know, like a rational person.

 

[funcrusher2007]

No.

Either you really don’t know or you’re being disingenuous..

http://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discrimination-on-admissions/

There is a direct correlation between Asian populations growth and declining admission rates..it’s about as plain as day.

Discrimination in College Admissions


In recent years, many studies have uncovered overwhelming evidence that Ivy Leagues Universities and other selective schools have been engaged in systematic and continuous discrimination against Asian-Americans in the college admissions process:



Get your education on and try again.

 

[TSO]

Because it's not true to original?
Why change race if it is not big deal?

Find the best actor, thats far more important. So unless race is part of their characters backstory it means nothing. For example, Nick Fury was the first super soldier before captain America. For him to not be white in the 30's-40's is kinda dumb.

I'd say you are more racist if you insist on race change.
!

It's not more racist, it's the exact same thing.

 

[TSO]

Either you really don’t know or you’re being disingenuous..

http://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discrimination-on-admissions/

There is a direct correlation between Asian populations growth and declining admission rates..it’s about as plain as day.

Discrimination in College Admissions


In recent years, many studies have uncovered overwhelming evidence that Ivy Leagues Universities and other selective schools have been engaged in systematic and continuous discrimination against Asian-Americans in the college admissions process:



Get your education on and try again.

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Asians are still way over represented in college by merit and demographics.

 

[funcrusher2007]

Correlation doesn't equal causation. Asians are still way over represented in college by merit and demographics.

In a true fair ,non racist admission process. they should be over represented if the work ethic and or grades/application warrant it.

The whole..
“Judged by content not color thingy”

“over represented by merit”
merit: the quality of being good and deserving praise

Lol, by your own words...they deserve to be where they are in the academic pecking order.

To deny them admission in order to admit less qualified and less represented ethnic groups is the very definition of

Systematic oppression:

Institutional Oppression is the systematic mistreatment of people within a social identity group, supported and enforced by the society and its institutions, solely based on the person's membership in the social identity group.


..but back to the Asian admissions problem.

I’ve posted plenty off supporting info to show you that there is definitely a problem in which you said didn’t exist.

 

[TSO]

In a true fair ,non racist admission process. they should be over represented if the work ethic and or grades/application warrant it.

The whole..
“Judged by content not color thingy”

“over represented by merit”
merit: the quality of being good and deserving praise

Lol, by your own words...they deserve to be where they are in the academic pecking order.

To deny them admission in order to admit less qualified and less represented ethnic groups is the very definition of

Systematic oppression:

Institutional Oppression is the systematic mistreatment of people within a social identity group, supported and enforced by the society and its institutions, solely based on the person's membership in the social identity group.


..but back to the Asian admissions problem.

I’ve posted plenty off supporting info to show you that there is definitely a problem in which you said didn’t exist.

No, you're misunderstanding what I wrote. Yes, due to merit they have earned places that make their representation higher than their population. They're over represented based upon merit. The only ethnicity underrepresented by merit is Caucasians.

 

[Arkain2K]

Daniel Wu on Finally Finding Better Roles for Asian Men in Hollywood
by Marykate Jasper | March 17th, 2018

Tomb Raider and Into the Badlands star Daniel Wu recently spoke to The Los Angeles Times about his unique film career. Wu was born and raised in California, but he didn’t start his film career until he moved to Hong Kong. He’s since become a massive star in the Asian market, described in the article as “the Brad Pitt of China” and an “A-lister who gets swarmed by paparazzi whenever he leaves the house.”

And yet, for many years, Hollywood wasn’t interested in an actor with such a phenomenal track record. After he became so successful overseas, Wu returned home to see if he could find roles in the United States. “I came out to Hollywood to see if there was any interest—and there wasn’t, so I just gave up,” Wu said. “I went back. I would take meetings and nothing would come of it. Quite frankly speaking, nothing came of it until recently, in the last few years, when there’s been such a focus on the Chinese box office.”

“It sucks that it was money that motivated that move,” he continued, “but at the same time it’s a good opportunity for everybody. You started to see more Chinese actors appear in Hollywood movies. I could see that that was about to happen, and then it happened … It was this slow progression of people starting to know who I was and then being educated on my influence back in Asia, and realizing, ‘Oh, he speaks perfect English — that’s a major plus.'”

In addition to the money argument, Wu thinks that American culture has become more diverse and global as well: “I think the difference now is the audience is different. The audience is more diverse now not just culturally, but the white kids growing up today are eating Asian food. When I was growing up white kids were like, ‘Hey, what are you eating?’ And that was only 20 years ago.”

Wu has gradually been building a Hollywood profile, with roles in Warcraft, Europa Report, AMC’s Into the Badlands, and now Tomb Raider. As Into the Badlands showrunner Alfred Gough said: “He’s got the charisma, he’s got the chops, and he just really is the full package. And in a world where we’re trying to expand what a leading man looks like in movies—you look at Black Panther and movies like that—I keep telling people, ‘You don’t understand. He’s done it in Asia. You guys are late to the party.'”

Honestly, “late to the party” seems to sum up Hollywood’s treatment of marginalized actors in general. Wu’s experience echoes that of many Asian and Asian-American actors who have struggled to find meaningful roles in a Hollywood which often whitewashes Asian roles, characterizes Asian actors as “not very expressive,” or tries to offer Asian actors minor, stereotypical parts. It’s encouraging to see that things are starting to change, even if that shift has mostly been profit-driven. And the change isn’t limited to movies. As Grace Lee at Glamour wrote, “There is an undeniable new class of handsome Asian male actors dominating TV right now. Vinny Vincent Rodriguez III [from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend], but also Manny Jacinto from The Good Place, and Ross Butler who plays a studly jock on 13 Reasons Why and Riverdale.”

As for Wu’s future career? “My favorite genre of filmmaking is crime drama, which I did a lot of in Hong Kong,” he said. “One thing we can’t do in China is heist movies because people doing bad things can’t get away with them; the censorship you have to deal with is the challenge of working in Asia. But I would love to do an Italian Job type heist film … or a comedy.”

https://www.themarysue.com/daniel-wu-hollywood-asian-men/

 

[Fedorable]

There's almost no white to Asian racism these days.

sure there is, I was all racist to my Chinese friend today.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

CAn they even still do gangster flicks in Hong Kong? Are the commies censoring that too? AT least there is still Taiwan. I miss the 80s/90s HK style action gangster flicks.