re: #399 Obdicut

There’s so many layers of annoying and offensive, too. There’s subtle stuff like “Where are the Asians?”— most TV shows have incredibly small numbers of Asian cast members, especially in proportion to their representation in the world. Aside from Dexter and Heroes, I can’t think of a major TV show with an Asian in the main cast.

And the whole question of whether having an actor play a different ‘race’ is offensive, or enlightened. Chinese playing as Japanese and vice versa is always kind of darkly funny, given the traditional relationships between those ethnic groups.

My favorite fail on that front was a short-lived medical show that was supposed to be set in a hospital in San Francisco. There were no Asians among the doctors. It was hilariously wrong.