so this is your topic now huh

honestly though any person in the united states can name like 30 american celebrities. but how many asian/asian-american celebrities can an average us citizen name? probably like two. jackie chan and jet li. maybe that funny asian kid in those movies whatshisname

i like that you said AMERICAN CELEBRITIES like they can't possibly be asian (let's separate race and nationality here bub)

i like that you said AMERICAN CELEBRITIES like they can't possibly be asian (let's separate race and nationality here bub)

Can you stop acting like we're wrong when we're clearly right.

you know whats right?

the casting on airbender, I think thats pretty right

i didn't even separate them really. it's just that about 99% of the american celebrities people know are, well, not asian. or asian-american. and if they are, they're just tanned white people.

I don't think he cares about the movie I think hes got some modern asian persecution complex and this is the best thing he could find.

aahahahaa i love you man

I don't think he cares about the movie I think hes got some modern asian persecution complex and this is the best thing he could find.

Charlie Chan

The Good Earth

Fu Man Chu

Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Original ending of Romeo Must Die in which Jet Li kisses the "black girl" being changed because the "urban test audience" it was tested to got angry that Jet Li kissed the "black girl".

I don't understand Coxswain. I have been furious for a long time and this just made me more.

yeah psyburn i don't get what your deal is it's a childrens show and we don't want the kiddies thinking chink eyes are normal. you're probably way too over sensitive to asian persecution because you're more aware of your surroundings and the maths behind racism (j/k please don't karate chop me!)

yeah psyburn i don't get what your deal is it's a childrens show and we don't want the kiddies thinking chink eyes are normal.

the cartoon dude's eyes are HUGE and anime so i'm just gonna stop you right there

Dude charlie chan is from like the 1920s before racism was bad.

I'm pretty sure lots of people know lucy liu

Edit: I dunno her name but that lady on Grey's Anatomy

i'm not as hypersensitive about this asian racism issue in american media. it's a problem that annoys me but i won't blow up about it. a children's tv show is pretty silly, but something like i dunno 21 where it's based off of a book where the characters are all asian and all of a sudden in the movie they're gorgeous white people it's really damn stupid.

and good job ragnar you've named the two asian woman everyone knows. can you name five that everyone knows?? i will be impressed. since i'm not into this whole thing as much as psyburn i know what everyone else knows because i guess i'm part of the generic hollywood audience that knows absolutely nothing about movies.

This makes sense but nobody understands that more than half of the US is white, meaning target audiences are mostly white, and most of the tiny percentage of the people in hollywood are white. I'm not saying there isn't discrimination, but ignoring factors like location and actual numbers...

Jesus, I hear this argument all the time and it's stupid as fuck dude. This is just "generic I don't know what I'm talking about argument" that many many people use to talk about the lack of minorities in lead roles in Hollywood movies in general. If that is the case, than why are more than half of the players in the NBA black? Granted, yes a lot of the audience that watches the NBA IS black, but the fact that it wasn't in the past should be a trend that continues due to the fact that 74% of Americans ARE white. If that can change, why can't Hollywood? Wait, NBA is about skill and athleticism, Hollywood is about money and power.

It's also a kinda "no shit" argument. Because again, it's about the money.

This is America, a multicultural ethnic nation, race should not matter at all. People need to grow up and accept that. That will not happen without a change, or an acceptance of people such as Asian Americans, in lead roles.

btw everyone read through the racebending.com FAQ Part 2 before arguing

I wasn't disagreeing with you I was just trying to name some more asian celebrities that the average person would actually be likely to know, but yeah I think what's her name from Sideways/Grey's Anatomy is the only one who isn't kicking ass constantly so I do think it's pretty bad

there's probably lots more Asian people in movies that people might know I just can't remember their name because they're not in like EVERY MOVIE like even if you don't like Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie they're in like every movie ever so their names are seared into my brain. Like that guy who was in Batman Begins (Ken Watanabe) was in The Last Samurai and Letters from Iwo Jima which I dunno I think those were pretty well known movies they just kind of random and two are like ultra-Japan movie but I think if I watched two of those I'd be like hey it's that guy. I agree though there needs to be an Asian person who's like in every movie ever made and not a bit part and like big summer movie stuff not martial arts stuff but yeah I think it's more that Americans are ADD you could probably name a lot of white celebrities people don't know just because they only star in a movie every 2 years

Edit: I seriously think that needs to be done an Asian person should star in whatever superhero franchise is left or like WEEKEND AT PORKY'S II just like super-popular dumbshit American movie, because I mean thinking it over there are a lot of movies with Asian actors/actresses in them they're just like super high-profile going for Academy Award movies that nobody actually saw, and half the time they're set in the country they're from and in some other time period so American audiences are like shit is this supposed to be edumacational. I also thought Heroes was an exception because I have no idea of anybody's name on that show but somehow the Japanese guy's name sticks out and I dunno I never watched it but it seemed like typical status-quo insanely-overpopular TV series

Thank god I live in sweden where everybody's blonde, big-breasted and blue-eyed.

This is America, a multicultural ethnic nation, race should not matter at all.

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But the problem is race DOES matter in Hollywood.