There are rare cases when you see a show or movie with an asian or hispanic or middle eastern lead. “almost never do Asian male characters have love interests in movies. And more often than not, if an Asian female character is the main love interest, she 's being fought over by a white guy and an Asian guy, with the white guy ending up with the girl.” That shocking trope was pointed out in an interview with John Cho and Kal Penn ,stars of movie series ‘Harold and Kumar’.(“Diversity (or the lack thereof) In Media”) Stereotypes similar to that consist of the asian character always being labeled as the ‘intelligent and stoic” character or given a strong accent and an inability to speak clear english, only a broken
There are rare cases when you see a show or movie with an asian or hispanic or middle eastern lead. “almost never do Asian male characters have love interests in movies. And more often than not, if an Asian female character is the main love interest, she 's being fought over by a white guy and an Asian guy, with the white guy ending up with the girl.” That shocking trope was pointed out in an interview with John Cho and Kal Penn ,stars of movie series ‘Harold and Kumar’.(“Diversity (or the lack thereof) In Media”) Stereotypes similar to that consist of the asian character always being labeled as the ‘intelligent and stoic” character or given a strong accent and an inability to speak clear english, only a broken