# Minorities on TV: Are They Really Underrepresented?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minorities-on-tv-are-they-really-underrepresented/617715>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 3, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minorities-on-tv-are-they-really-underrepresented/617715 "2012-04-03T18:14:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minorities-on-tv-are-they-really-underrepresented/617715/61 "2012-04-10T20:17:36Z")

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> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> I honestly had no idea. I knew of its connection to Jewish people and Roma, but “Chinese people are cheap” is a new one on me.

> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#):
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> Han is Korean, although an audience who falls for such stereotypes might not make the distinction. I would say, though, that there are more jokes about his size than his cheapness.

I’ve never seen the show. I was just answering the question posed more generally about Asians.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Asia on business and this may be a stereotype more well known within Asia. More than a few times I’ve had a Chinese client or colleague find out I was Jewish and then the mutual teasing comes out. A lot of Chinese see themselves as the “Jews of Asia” for a number of cultural reasons but that’s a topic for a different thread.

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**Author:** ![Shooby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Shooby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shooby)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/minorities-on-tv-are-they-really-underrepresented/617715/62 "2012-04-10T20:53:45Z")

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> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> Frasier lives in Seattle, which is almost 70% white.

I’m a minority Seattlite, and the professional “class” is even whiter, with a healthy dose of Asian thrown in. It’s also probably the least black big American city I’ve ever been. Frasier did not surprise or offend me at all demographically [well OK, Daphne should have been a Latina].

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