@blackhairedhero:
Except she didn't say that. She was misquoted by the media, and then the misquote was taken out of context by the alt-right. Here is what she actually said:
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/06/brie-larsons-i-do-not-hate-white-dudes-lack-of-inclusion-film-critics-1201974617/
On Monday, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative — led by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, honored earlier at the ceremony by Frances McDormand — released a report that examined nearly 20,000 reviews of last year’s 100 top-grossing movies. The report found that 63.9 percent of those reviews were written by white men, versus white women (18.1 percent), underrepresented men (13.8 percent), and underrepresented women (4.1 percent).
“Am I saying I hate white dudes?” asked the Oscar-winning “Room” actress, a question that she’d repeat twice more during her speech. She answered with a sneer, “No, I’m not … [but if] you make the movie that is a love letter to women of color, there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have a chance to see your movie and review your movie.”
Larson continued, “[Audiences] are not allowed enough chances to read public discourse on these films by the people that the films were made for. I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about ‘[A] Wrinkle in Time.’ It wasn’t made for him. I want to know what it meant to women of color, to biracial women, to teen women of color, to teens that are biracial.”
She is essentially saying, she already knows what "40-year-old white dude" critics said about the movie, but what she hasn't heard are what "women of color" critics thought about the movie, despite "women of color" being the movie's primary target audience. Her point is about women of color being under-represented, not about white men. But the alt-right missed the point, and went into a rage.
And you're dead wrong about hip hop. Plenty of non-black rappers have spoken about how hip hop is dominated by black guys, that it's hard for non-black rappers to make it, etc. Did that lead to backlash from black guys going on a rage against non-black rappers? No. The only people who throw a tantrum the moment the word "diversity" is mentioned are the alt-right.
As for China and India, they're not homogenous nations like you're making out. China has at least dozens of ethnic groups, some of whom don't have a typical "East Asian" phenotype (such as the people of Xinjiang province, most of whom have a more "Central-Asian" or "Middle-Eastern" looking appearance). And India especially is very diverse, with at least hundreds of ethnic groups, who come in all kinds of skin tones and phenotypes. In Bollywood, there has been a big push for diversity in recent years, with increasing demands from women, ethnic minorities, darker-skinned people, traditionally lower castes, religious minorities (e.g. Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, etc.) and Northeast Indians (who generally have a more "East Asian" looking appearance) to get more representation in Bollywood.
Whenever a democracy has sizeable minority populations who feel under-represented, it's inevitable that these under-represented minority groups will eventually demand to be represented. It's not a "black" and "white" thing, but it's a "majority" and "minority" thing. That's what "diversity" is about, under-represented minority groups who are citizens of a country getting their fair share of representation in that country. But I think "representation" is a better way to describe it. The word "diversity" is somewhat ambiguous, whereas the word "representation" is more clear and concise.
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