General lack of Chinese people on TV

So of employing people on merit employ them based on where they're from?
Maybe you'd be surprised to know that a lot of Londoners are used to accents from around the UK, as a lot of people move here.
I don't even know which reporter you're talking about, shows how much this accent bothers me, I hadn't noticed it.

To think a lot of people thought it was OK now to work in front of camera with a non-rp accent and to be judged on your actual performance, rather than accent.
 
If there was a new show on say current affairs on BBC and they had three presenters we know in advance what the makeup would be.

One black presenter,one gay and one white.
 
This. Tokenistic casting is cringeworthy and patronising.

I'm Irish, which is probably one of the largest ethnic groups in Britain, and I don't expect us to pop up in every programme!
 
Allan Wu hosts The Amazing Race Asia. OK..its a show made in Asia for the Asian market. But he is very good and he should be snapped up by ITV or BBC to host a smilar show here. (Check his pic on google)
 
Presumably the OP would think it fair if the ethnic ratio of those on TV reflected the ethnic demographic of the British population. In that case, only one in every two hundred would be Chinese and, as there would appear to be a significantly disproportionate number of black and mixed race people on our screens, the number of these should be reduced to three percent.
 
I wonder if part of the OP's confusion stems from the distribution of the UK's ethnic minorities. They seem to think there are more chinese people than black people in the UK, and that is true in a lot of smaller towns away from the big cities, but in the big cities there are definitely more black people, which is where a lot of tv is made.

Whether or not there is a cultural desire to apear on tv within the Chinese communities comes into it too. Although I'd speculate that is linked to living in a city with high media presence and realistic opportunities to get onto tv.
 
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