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Originally Posted by MFThomas301
Theres actually a good amount of east asians on tv too
but indians? no.
If by east asians you mean specifically Koreans, then a lot more, but not many.
Very few Japanese and few Chinese. And forget about naming more than a dozen Southeast asians with high visibility on TV.
And bringing it back around, forget about Blasians (a particular concern to me being that I am one). When I was a kid, there were zero on TV (Bruce Leroy doesn't count) and now it's as if Tiger Woods, Hines Ward and that dude on E! are the only ones in the world if TV were any guide. Ok, I'm going to step off my soap box.
If by east asians you mean specifically Koreans, then a lot more, but not many.
Very few Japanese and few Chinese. And forget about naming more than a dozen Southeast asians with high visibility on TV.
And bringing it back around, forget about Blasians (a particular concern to me being that I am one). When I was a kid, there were zero on TV (Bruce Leroy doesn't count) and now it's as if Tiger Woods, Hines Ward and that dude on E! are the only ones in the world if TV were any guide. Ok, I'm going to step off my soap box.
There's also Amerie, though not really an actress, and a handful of black celebrities that have some Asian descent.
Blasian girls are hot. Truth.
Also, there's some Chinese or part Chinese (such as Keanu Reeves and Maggie Q) actors outside of Lucy Liu.
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Overall though, Asian Americans have pretty poor representation on TV. Especially those of us from small ethnic groups in this country.
While it's better than the 70s and before when Asian Americans didn't exist at all apparently if you watch the shows from the time, there is still a long way to go before there can start to be celebrations.
One thing that could go a long way in fixing that is a Asian American oriented network like Telemundo or BET for all Asians whether Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Pinoy, etc.
Yeah, there is the Filipino channel or KTV and JTV, but those networks are geared to showing movies and shows from "back home". That would be like someone starting a network for African Americans and all of the shows were from Nigeria.
And the actor playing Abed on the first pic is Danny Pundit.I found you Danny
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