General lack of Chinese people on TV

[Ronaldo_Utd]

I'm suprised that there's not been a token Chinese family in Eastenders - they've had every other minority portrayed.

 

[Gsaba]

Does it matter that we rarely see a Chinese person on the tv ?

 

[Edward Elric]

elaine tan payed Li in eastenders

and there's maye choo who played vicky hong in honest

 

[kerry]

There aren't many famous British-Chinese people - whereas there are lots of famous people descended from Caribbean or East Asian immigrants.

Off the top of my head I can think of David Yip, Benedict Wong (from State of Play), Gok Wan and Bert Kwouk from the Pink Panther films.

Wasn't one of the teletubbies played by a chinese person?

 

[bridgett s]

I disagree, it's arguably the worst english speaking channel that has ever been broadcast.

 

[texaswildman]

i dont think there has been a Chinese character in either Eastenders or Corrie ?

 

[§§Mad Banke®§§]

Mr Kwouk was born in Manchester according to his biog and for many years made a living playing Japanese characters in war films (they all look the same to me).

 

[GangsterBritishPirate]

There were some chinese characters in "New tricks" last friday, though fairly typically they were "baddies". The actess who played the adopted daughter was seriously hot though.

 

[:)...(:]

Cripes...I live in the Middle East and I'm quite sure that there isn't a single local television programming producer worrying his pretty little head about the lack of British, Chinese, Scandanavian or Australians in their productions.

Am so glad I don't live in the UK anymore as I find this kind of insane political-correctness-gone-mad absolutely infuriating.

 

[uzamakigirl]

watch CCTV9 its free to air on satellite and is very good with lots of interesting programs

 

[jack32588]

As TV represents the majority surely Chinese people are in the minority here.

I mean how many gay people are there, they are hardly represented...

 

[rickle91]

I don't know what proportion of the population is gay but I would have thought their representation on TV was way over proportion as virtually every programme, ficton or non-fiction, appears to have gay characters in one way or another.Incidentally my Penguin Encyclopaedia puts Chinese below Arabic, Turkish and Greek in terms of ethnic groups.All put together these groups represent less than 2% of the UK population which was put at 60,178,000 in 2002.
In other words, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Chinese and other minorities only total 600,000 in the UK.

 

[chloe w]

There's that Fr Ted episode ........

 

[wookiee lover]

Chinese made the TV. Why'd they have to star on it as well? You're always left wanting more with a Chinese?

 

[Uchiha]

Judging by your clich

 

[U.S.Hottie]

Apparently they have western newsreaders and weatherman on that.

The only foreign channel I watch is Record TV the Brazilian channel for the crazy gameshows.

We had an exchange student from Mozambique and no-one could believe it when we started talking about Brazilian gameshows.

 

[flossyb182]

Apart from the English and the Scots, if we're going to be ethnic about it.

 

[trumpeterny]

Almost half the population of Brazil is black, maybe blacking up is received differently.

edit: oops, I think you edited your post? Anyway I'll leave my reply sitting here enigmatically, lol.

 

[Chae]

Because the UK population consists of just over 1% Chinese people.

 

[UHHiloveyou.]

Thankyou.

Why are we always so damn concerned about "representation"? You think anyone else gives a hoot?

It's maddening living in this country.