Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-34935885-20180308085918/@comment-1826156-20180309205304

I could say show me the caucasian or black representations in Asian media, but I understand that they are catering to  Asian audiences. I have zero proble with that.

I do not think there was some huge bias against east Asian men (though why Shang never appeared baffles me), I imagine it just never came up. I am not against ethnicities being represented, or sexual orientations etc. Far from it. But when it is shoe horned in, just for diversities sake, it usually makes bad storytelling.

Most of the stories featured on Once are from Europe (fairy tales), America (Oz) or myth (Greco-Roman). These are the stories audiences in the west are most familiar with and I feel like for the most part Once did a fairly good job at filling typically white roles with other ethnicities. There were other times I think they should have chosen an actor based on skill rather than diversity (Cinderella in season 7) and at times they had a good opportunity to cast people of color and failed by making them one-off characters with no impact. (Rapunzel in season 3)