What I find amusing is that Tor is saying, “All you black and white people are the same, stereotyping us Asians.” If you’ve ever lived in Japan or Korea, you’ve definitely seen thick-accented Russians or Germans playing “Americans” in dramas, among other things. This is not something unique of the West.

South-Americans get racially stereotyped as being tanned people with dark hair and eyes, even tough in Latin-America there are just as many racial groups as in the USA, but in the eyes of the average American, Latinos who look white or black are not Latinos.

Don Cheadle played a Rwandan in Hotel Rwanda even though he has no Rwandan roots.
Americans playing ancient Greeks and Romans who speak in English etc.
Leonardo Dicaprio played Louis XIV, yet he has no French ancestry.

I fail to see how a Chinese playing a Japanese is more offensive than the above examples, unless one is racist, such as the Chinese Netizens who complained that Chinese actresses played ‘Japanese whores’ in Memoirs of a Geisha.

So why should American studios perfectly match the ethnicity of Asian actors with their characters when they don’t tend to do it for other non-Americans?

Asians may all look the same to the average American, but the same is true for non Western people in general. What about you? Can you tell the difference between Ecuadorian and Salvadorian? Eritrean and Somalian? Lebanese and Syrian?

LMAOoooooooooooooooooo

Funny, that, ain’t it?