Should the Glee cast have more asian roles?

United States
May 3, 2011 9:47pm CST
I was just watching the open auditions for the third season of Glee that were put up on Youtube last year. The youtube phenomenon Sam Tsui was one of the thousands of people who auditioned. On the comments for his audition video, someone wrote that Glee would not be likely to cast another asian because there are already two major asian roles. Sadly, I understand the likelihood of this statement, because two asians is already a lot compared to the average television show in America. Heck, even one asian is a lot. The question is why should we feel that shows have to replicate the population of America? Are people really so unaccepting as to avoid watching shows that have minorities in them? How about things from the minority perspective? Us minorities have been watching the same tv shows all our lives- 95% caucasian. So now we have this one show that allows asians to view their own race and it's so liberating... at the same time it's a very small step.
2 responses
2 Jul 11
Nearly all americans series have asians... They should add some european and spaniard too, they give them too bad population comparing them with southamericans. There are too many stereotypes in TV Shows which give a bad appareance to different races, people can be smart even if they're europeans / asiatics / americans or africans, but they must have a good education to approach their brain.
• Philippines
4 May 11
I think its ok to have asians on glee as long as theyve got the " it ". Im an asian and im proud to see that my fellowmen are doing great in those american produced series. I love the performance of charice on glee, it was unbelievable. I hope more of asian talents will be showcase in those programs.