Someone clearly needed to slap him upside the head. Come to think of it, though, aside from the bad guy in "Unbreakable", I can't think of any non-whites he's directed. Huh.

And it's not just role models either. It's also a matter of visual distinctions. How many white Americans do you think can look at someone from east Asia and tell what ethnicity they are? A lot of people in America seriously can't tell the different between ethnic Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, etc. And given the history and cultures involved, mixing them up is certainly crass and can be dangerous. Having mass media cast them all as Caucasians certainly explains part of it but does nothing to excuse it.

A friend of a friend who is Hispanic went into the military and was trained as an Arabic interpreter because he "looked like them." That left me just a bit speechless.