Why is there so much Chinese backdrop/world-building and dialog in Firefly, but no Chinese characters in the cast?
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No, I genuinely don't know the show world well enough.
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don't think it's the show world, it's the real audience. For the same reason it took years to get other non-white characters on tv
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meaning race discrimination doesn't affect casting and viewer preference in contemporary America?
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Not to the point of mangling the plot and setting these days. They might still essentialize/exoticize
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