>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.

i guess 'American pop culture' doesn't include the at least dozen of Spanish-language channels available w/my Comcast subscription.

i agree they're under-represented on English-language channels and in English-language movies and commercials.

>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.

40%?

LOL.