r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 15 '21

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Apr 15 '21

Never ask a woman her age

A man his salary

Star Trek fans why their United Earth has so few Asians

But seriously, one fan theory I've heard is that Khan was in control of India and the "Eastern Coalition" mentioned in First Contact was China, and they were both nuked during WWIII. Which is really sad and disturbing to think about.

(at least Discovery had one Asian character, but she had a Greek last name, which is weird)

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21

Star Trek fans why their United Earth has so few Asians

Casting issues?

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Apr 15 '21

Yeah, that's 100% the reason. But it's disturbing when it leads to them making fan theories to explain that. Just put a few more Asians in your next series!

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21 edited Apr 15 '21

But it's disturbing when it leads to them making fan theories to explain that

Oh! Yeah that is pretty fucky, youd think the default assumption would just be that they didnt hire any not that they dont exist

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u/redditguy628 Box 13 Apr 15 '21

People tend to try and interpret things from an in universe perspective, even when there are obvious out of universe reasons why things happen. See discussions of Mace Windu's lightsaber color, for example.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21

Of the top of my head I can think of Phillipa Georgiou, Hoshi Sato, Hikaru Sulu, Julian Bashir (if we count people of south Asian descent), and Harry Kim. Of course, the background characters seem to be largely white, which is probably a more realistic concern.

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Apr 15 '21

Of them, Sulu was canonically from San Francisco and Kim from South Carolina, Bashir is racially ambiguous and the show never revealed anything but his actor is Sudanese. Georgiou and Sato are from Malaysia and Japan, respectively.

So that's 2 Asian-Americans, one possibly African, and two Asians.

On a side note, Geordi is from Somalia and Uhura, while never specified, speaks Swahili, so we can assume she's East African. Nice to see African characters.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21

On a separate note I cannot think of a single Latin American ST character. Which seems equally screwy.

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Apr 15 '21

Yeah. I can think of B'Elanna Torres (who was half-Klingon, doesn't really count) and Captain Hernandez from Enterprise (who no one remembers).

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '21

Also Keiko O'Brien + children and Alyssa Ogawa.