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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a female

The character Nick isn’t half-white either, but the actor is. [/quote]

I thought it was really odd that they picked a half white actor to play the part of a full Chinese man[/quote]

They had a hard time finding a fully-Asian leading man. They approached drama schools all over the West and were told such a guy wasn't in their radars. Chu learned of Golding through their accountant in KL. I think he suits the role because he does look manly, handsome and charismatic. If I had to pick another good-looking Asian male lead, I'd go with Daniel Henney but maybe he's too old for the part?[/quote]

Yeah bc there are so few Chinese men on the planet.  [/quote]

No, it's because Asian women don't date Asian men. Half white actor makes it more believable from Rachel's perspective.[/quote]

Really?  How astonishing.  I've been a Chinese man in the US for 53 years and I didn't realize this.  I obviously needed a white woman to teach me about dating practices within my own ancestral background.

Although I'm an American born Asian, I have known hundreds of Asian women who have dated Asian men over the years.  Although I didn't marry an Asian woman, I did date two.  I have known about every combination of American-born and Asian-born men and women who have dated and/or married other Asians both American-born and Asian-born.  Although you are correct that more Asians date non-Asians, that's because when you are in the US, your pool of available single people if Asian descent to date is much smaller than your pool of non-Asian descent single people.  It's a numbers game.  When only 4% of the US population is of Asian descent, chances are about 25:1 that you'll date a non-Asian person.[/quote]

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