12695830, Over/Underrepresented in the media Posted by John Forte, Mon Jan-12-15 09:40 AM
Latinos have to me the most underrepresented group in American pop culture, right? They're 17% of the population but how often do you see Latinos in movies, tv shows and commercials? Sometimes I see a commercial with dark-ish white folk where none of the actors talk, and the copy delivered through voice-over, and think to myself "I wonder if they run this with Spanish voiceover on Telemudo", but that about it.
Asians, on the other hand, are over-represented. They make up something like 5-6% of the US population, but every movie or show, seems to have background Asian, and probably 40% of ads I see have an Asian in them.
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