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[quote=Anonymous]I get it, OP. Though I’m not sure slotting in one or two token non-white actors as minor characters would have made that much difference. What’s really ground-breaking are stories with a critical mass of diverse characters. There were a few in the 80s, like The Cosby Show, but there’s been an explosion of that kind of content in the last few years, and I love to see it.

I’m white and went to a high school that was 99% white, so I never gave the whiteness of entertainment any thought. But my husband’s Asian, and he’s talked about what it was like to grow up never seeing people who looked like him on TV. Worse, the single Asian character usually turned out to be a stereotype of some sort. Our daughter has watched a few tv series from Japan and Korean, and it’s a whole different experience when the hero AND the villain AND the funny sidekick AND the police detective AND the nerd AND the background extras, etc, etc are all Asian. I believe watching shows like that will subtly change her sense of belonging in the world in ways that seeing a few token characters would not. [/quote]

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