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Hollywood’s Asian whitewash

Two of Japanese popular culture’s biggest exports to the United States, manga and anime, have brought that culture to a much wider audience. But when those art forms make the leap to the major motion picture, Asian American actors are strangely in short supply. Stephanie Siek of CNN reports on how Asian pop culture without Asians is, to quote one scholar, “an affront to their identity.” See Movies

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