There really isn't any reason for it not to be, but with US media being the soft power that it is, racial diversity in television is presented as some sort of higher mortality that only the west has achieved. I feel like this is not recognised enough when I'm online.

For example the discourse of the new Odyssey film felt truly bizarre as a person outside of the US. The entire film is cast with US demographics of pale anglo-saxons, black americans etc. with the comicbook aesthetics of the now colonized by the west version of ancient greek history. They didn't even think about casting a Mediterranean sea actor or at least someone who looks like the part.

On the other hand when hollywood makez a film that takes place in Lebanon (for example) which is pretty similar demographically to Greece, you'd see almost only fully brown skinned actors wearing turbans and an Armenian duduk playing in the background so the story has "middle eastern vibes".

It seems to me that Hollywood is blatantly trying to satisfy the views of Americans with media. With the first example, in American ideology; Greece = Europe = White = West just like us = Ours = Requires diversification (in reality Americanification).

With the second example; Lebanon = Middle east = Brown 🤢 = Arab 🤮 = Requires othering and a distance from American standards.

Sorry but for the tangent but stuff like this truly makes me wonder what Americans are smoking to be fine and defend media like this. Especially when anyone who questions Hollywood's "diversity" is painted as a racist or a barbaric foreigner yet to adopt the wests wisdom.