http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2451 Comments for "Analyze My Face: Hapas, exoticism and the entertainment industry" en http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2451#comment-673 <p>Thanks for sharing your stories. I found this one really interesting. Kind of disturbing about the way that casting gets done, but sadly not surprising. I hadn't realized that Mark Paul Gosselaar was Hapa.</p> Wed, 14 May 2008 23:20:04 -0700 vkm comment 673 at http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2451 <p><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/sites/www.discovernikkei.org.forum/files/l_winkler90_0.jpg" title="View: l_winkler90.jpg"><img style="width: px; height:px;" src="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/sites/www.discovernikkei.org.forum/files/l_winkler90_0.jpg" class="inline" alt="l_winkler90.jpg" title="l_winkler90.jpg" /></a></p> <h2>Analyze My Face: Hapas, exoticism and the entertainment industry</h2> <p>By Leah Nanako Winkler</p> <p>I have hazel eyes. My skin is pale, my nose is tall and my hips are hopelessly wide. At first glance there is nothing about me, or so I am constantly told, that looks remotely Japanese. This is why he wanted to take me out of the shot. I heard him utter the recurring phrase of my life, the one that was born in the mouths of the children at Hiroba Koen and echoed to lips of an up and coming film director in New York City on the set of a big budget feature.</p> <p><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2451">read more</a></p> http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2451#comment Identity Wed, 14 May 2008 10:41:43 -0700 editor 2451 at http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum