There's a feedback loop. Hollywood for sure caters to mass opinion through things like focus groups, but they also wield a tremendous power in shaping this mas

There's a feedback loop. Hollywood for sure caters to mass opinion through things like focus groups, but they also wield a tremendous power in shaping this mass opinion in the first place. That's a large part of why there are so many AA men and women with self esteem issues. (similar parallels exist for other minorities, they just might manifest differently). You end up with minorities who prefer to see white actors because that fits their ideas of beauty, and then the machine truly becomes unstoppable. This line of thought isn't new. It's just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bluest_Eye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bluest_Eye all over again. Back to being asian, I don't expect hollywood to take any risks to represent me, so I've begun looking elsewhere for decent representation in movies. Luckily the media industries of HK, korea, and japan are pretty good.