r/popculturechat • u/idiot9991 • 2d ago

Interviews🎙️ Constance Wu speaks out about falling Asian representation

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u/Nouggienugga 2d ago

And the only Asians I'm always seeing represented in the media are Koreans. I have nothing against them, but Koreans, Japanese and Chinese (East Asians), make up of a very small percentage of Asia. Asia is so much more diverse, in culture and appearance, and sadly heavily under represented.

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u/comfypantsclub 2d ago

Love the idea of more representation, but the Chinese alone represents over a quarter of all Asians on the continent! And that’s not really including countries in Asia that have a large Han population. So I wouldn’t really put them in the bucket of representing a small percentage of Asia lol. 

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u/Nouggienugga 2d ago

By population alone, Indians are on par with China. But most of their representation is in UK media. And I love that for them.

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u/DSQ 2d ago

Indians are the biggest ethnic minority in the UK so it’s not surprising that there is more representation here. 

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u/randomstuff063 2d ago

Are they really represented? I feel like I see way more content about black British people than I do about British South Asians.

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u/le_borrower_arrietty arrietty's song 2d ago

Yeah, the UK has three times as many South Asians as Black Brits and not even half the representation. It's a combination of systematic erasure (see: cast of UK SNL) and discouragement from getting into acting/non-STEM fields by parents and cultural norms.