"Let me explain this very clearly, since they don’t seem to understand the message: minorities and underrepresented groups are NOT interchangeable. You cannot replace an Asian man with a white woman and call that “representation.” You do not get to replace an Indian character with a black man and call it “diversity.” That is not how this works. When you do this, you are erasing a character’s background and meaning to everyone who will see the movie. This is even more true when you do this with long established characters from comics and books...
When film producers and directors decide to change up the ethnic background of these characters, they’re basically saying, “You thought the identity of this character, that you share and is meaningful to you, was an important part of the story, but it actually isn’t. We can change it to literally anything else and everything about the plot can stay the same, because your identity and your culture add nothing of value to the universe we’ve created.”
http://thetempest.co/2016/04/14/entertainment/the-movie-industry-is-whitewashing-an-asian-character-again/
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