The city of Cupertino is 70.9% Asian. A new TV show set there ignores this

janalsncm 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We are used to this when Hollywood depicts exotic foreign countries but the Bay Area is a one hour plane ride away.

The blame here lies squarely with the writers of the show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_and_Michelle_King

lawsthro0532 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Better Luck Tomorrow is the only depiction of high school I've seen that looked like anything I recognized. And I grew up where it snows for months.

It's sad they aren't doing better.

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metalman 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is Brampton in Canada that is supposed to be a nice down home Punjabi town, which sounds realy good to me as I cant squeeze out the time to fly all the way to Pakistan or India, but might go to brampton just to see exactly how "Asian" it is, supposedly very asian. I do know that China town in TO is solid chinese and is great to go walk about in, no english signage, and nothing funnier than seeing a lifted truck with very startled looking albertan's (plates!), bzzzzzzzeeerp, transporter works boys AND your invisible now, alternate realitys that barely interact, like some weak non-nuklear cultural force. we get what I call lifestyle refugees here in Nova Scotia, yanks, brits, germans, swiss, ontarioians,etc,who tend to be bitterly disapointed by the local euro decended population who class them as CFA's, come from aways, and are actualy VERY open to real refugees and people working realy realy realy hard to get there PR (permanent residency), and since most of the recent imigrants grew up farming, if things go to hell they can adapt to anything and keep there good maners and positive outlooks and work three jobs and drive a nice car, examples to all.

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tsss 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

African Americans are noticeably overrepresented in contemporary American media, while Asian Americans are underrepresented. In the UK it is even worse where at least half of the actors will be Indians, Pakistanis and so on when the majority of the country is white. This is, of course, on purpose.

	▲	porkpieshoe 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What (if any) data are you using? Because at a glance, both halves of your initial claim appear to be false. Roughly 14% of Americans are black, and the measures I've found put black representation between 8-16% depending on which measure is used. And roughly 7% of Americans are asian, and I'm seeing figures from 5% to 18% depending on measure used.

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Dig1t 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In 2000 it was 44% Asian. In just 2 decades (less than one generation) it completely flipped.

Demographic replacement in the USA is so fast and extreme that it’s difficult to keep up with it.

A TV writer who started their career in 2000 and visited Cupertino a few times would be forgiven for not understanding that the demographics of that place have been completely rewritten within their lifetime.

Expecting media to keep up with the exact demographics of the USA when the rate of change is so drastic, is a pretty high bar.

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OJFord 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Expecting media to keep up with the exact demographics of the USA when the rate of change is so drastic, is a pretty high bar.

They don't have to 'keep up with' it all the time though, is 'do your research' and 'maybe visit the place' for the show you're writing about 'a pretty high bar'?

(I'm not even sure I agree it's important to reflect, or at least not that it's always necessarily required, but I certainly don't think it being difficult is the reason not to, because I don't see how it is.)

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lern_too_spel 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If the cast were 44% Asian, there wouldn't be an issue. It's less than 10%.

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Dig1t 13 hours ago | parent [-]

In 1990 in was 20% asian, in 1980 in was 7%. The representation of the show is still realistic for one person's lifetime, in my opinion.

Indeed the creators of the show were full adults in 1980, a time when the USA was still nearly 100% white in most areas.

	▲	lern_too_spel 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The tech giants that are the source of the major conflict in the show didn't exist as powerful anti consumer entities in 1980 either. You can't have one without the other.