General lack of Chinese people on TV

I am only asking for one or two Chinese people out of thousands of celebrities or TV personalities. I don't see them portrayed at all other than cookery shows.
in some places there's 3% of the population Chinese. For people who seem to get high grades, they don't seem to feature in politics either.

I forgot Gok Wan. He ticks gay boxes too.
 
Does anyone else find this odd?

There was a doc about it a while back "The missing chink" (oh dear... terrible name) but still no progress for chinese or asian actors generally? I see more chinese people than black people round here.:confused:
 
I have noticed a lack of chinese British people on television . The only time I see chinese people on tv is if a cookery programme/Gok Wan is on yet I have chinese neighbours , went to a school with some chinese pupils and had a chinese friend.
Maybe chinese people are less likely to pursue media jobs.
 
East Enders has a lack of them. Also a lack of Indian vacuum cleaner menders sitting on communal floors of flats with their bare feet.

You see this a lot in Folkestone.
 
Surely people of Chinese origin (are you including Hong Kong in this) represent a very tiny minority of the UK population so they should have a very tiny representation of TV time. There used to be a series about a Chinese detective on BBC1. There seem to be very few Mongolians on British TV as well - the Mongolian Detective ?
 
This may have something to do with the fact that we live in Britan, not China. The clue is in the .co.uk in the URL.
 
For some reason when producers choose their ethnic roles they almost always choose blacks, probably due to the American influence.

Pakistanis are the most under-represented people on British TV in terms of population, almost all South Asians on British TV are of Indian origin.

Chinese, Bangladeshis and Turks are also under-represented.
 
I don't think tv gives an accurate representation of the percentages of minorities of the population in the UK.
Some minority groups are always on in virtually every prog now.
 
I was watching the ITV News at 5.30 this morning and they had a reporter called Yao Chin who certainly looked Oriental but spoke with a crisp Oxford accent. He was previewing the Pope's visit
 
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