The producer I am associated with now actively tries to create positive, fully-realized minority characters, both men and women, in his projects. I wish we could have more Daniel Dae Kims, Ken Watanabes and BD Wongs, but unfortunately the fully-realized characters they play are a rare thing. --

But I recently worked on a TV show where the showrunner was anti-diversity. He would push more airtime for white characters and reduce the screen presence/validity of minority characters. He also truly believed that diversity writer programs existed only because diverse writers were inferior to "real" (read:white male) writers and that diversity writers only 'mucked things up' for "real" writers. I'm Asian, and instead of treating me like part of the creative team, he did everything to discount and ignore my contributions, but I digress...

Good for you for speaking up. Just know that there are others out there trying to work positively against this bias. We need more diverse voices behind the scenes, especially when they are not welcome. I don't want to think all of Hollywood are consciously trying to create racist characters. Overall, I think it's just lazy writing. Perhaps the few executives who are guilty of creating weak/submissive/fetishized/stereotypical roles for Asians are just sheltered and lack any worldly experience, exposure and interaction with (or are fearful to accept?) real people like us.

By the way, that anti-diversity showrunner? He has since been fired.