Storytellers write what they know or what they love, being able to build a pipeline of diverse API representation will dramatically improve how these portrayals play out on screen and how we can augment and get more authentic stories.

Di Nonno

They're not shown as full human beings -- they're shown as body parts, di Nonno found that this was more common for the API female characters than the Caucasian female characters or other non-API, women of color characters.

They were much less often depicted as funny, they were more in that model minority [ trope ] of being hard working and rigid and smart.