John Cho, Ken Leung, Kal Penn...I consider those guys extremely sexy and an ideal mate. I am racist if I find Asian-American men attractive in general, but not Asian men?
I was thinking the same, Hollywood is the most superficial place in America. They care about money not skin color. If there were more of an Asian market for movies, you'd be sure you'd see more so they could make more profit. Simple as that.
there are some languages/accents i don't find very attractive...germanic and east asian languages come to mind...just not sexy to hear. thus, i don't find the people associated with them as attractive as an American with the exact face and body.
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The fact that there aren't many Asian lead actors is because Asians aren't a large percentage of the US population, relatively speaking. It's something like 4.5%, most of which are in large, coastal cities (SF, LA, NY, Houston, etc). Look at the UK, for example. 6.5% of the UK population is "British Asian", which is of Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Bangladeshi descent. This 6.5% number is already larger than the 4.5% in the US, and it doesn't even take into account the East Asian population. And the fact that a large number of the British Asian population has been in the UK for many generations. Back to my point, British Asians can be seen all over the British media, movies, television, etc.
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totally sidetracked, but interesting article from 2008: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082201
Hollywood wants their product to appeal to the largest demographics, Whites, Blacks, Hispanics. Asians are too small a minority to gain a foothold in the profits obsessed movie industry. Any other questions?
Well Jet Li tried to break that image... and failed. It's weird that a lot of Asian actors do epic Asian movies but can't quite translate it to Hollywood. Let's take a few Hong Kong megastars like Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, and Donnie Yen. They make such kick ass Hong Kong movies, but when they try to cross over to Hollywood, the pick the *****tiest movie scripts they could find, i.e. Kiss of the Dragon, The One, Bullet Proof Monk, etc. They can't even make decent action movies in Hollywood, where action got them famous in Hong Kong. I guess it's the language barrier.
