Interesting Shift

I realized this only after I watched 'the Lovely Bones', there is something different from most of the other movies these days: there is no 'politically correct' African background part in this film, instead, they put an Asian girl in as Susie's guide to paradise.

And I do realize there are more movies like this thinking back, 'Eating Out: All You Can Eat', those two illegal immigrants from Vietnam(?) working in Tiffany's nailing salon and Tandy obviously, no African background casts again. I'm sure there's more but I'll stop here.

It is quite obvious that most of such parts given to minors in the movies and TV shows are not necessarily ethnically specific (well illegal immigrants maybe) and sometimes even inappropriate (The one popped right into my head was Gwen in the BBC TV series Merlin because there would have been very rare case of African people 'in the land of myth and the days of magic' let alone being a royal servant and probably Queen later). They only serve as 'politically correct' disclaimer.

My point here is, is there a shifting in terms of 'politically correctness' from African population towards Asian population? If so, does this mean a realization of racism had turned from towards Africans to towards Asians? Or, does it mean Asian immigrants in the Western world are playing a bigger role by the date in the community comparing to Africans?

I am not going to answer these questions because I don't think I know the answer. What I do know is, African people are affecting the culture of Western countries in a deeper way than Asian people do. For example there's Eminem and there's Whitney Houston. But there's no white J-Pop star or Manga artists and there's no mainstream Asian artists in Western countries either, at least none as big as Whitney Houston.

Well, maybe it takes time?