Why is it so hard for Hollywood to cast an Asian actor?

All of your arguments have been thoroughly debunked in the past. You aren't bringing anything new to this.

A whopping 5.6% of the total population.

Yes, and that means they exist so there is no excuse to not hire them unlike a country like Japan which is literally 99% Japanese and has virtually no diversity unlike the United States which is a multi-ethnic nation but the mainstream media continues to ignore it.

Movie studios believe - people like people who look like them, and this concept is backed by various examples of scientific evidence:

That "scientific evidence" is completely irrelevant to this topic since it deals with sexual attraction and even that is bunk has it has been noticed that interracial relationships are on the rise: http://mic.com/articles/104558/interracial-dating-is-making-america-more-beautiful-here-s-how#.GYPdzB0Lz

Nonwhite Americans have no problem going to the movies and watching what are mostly white movies. In fact, Latino Americans, African Americans and Asain Americans go to the movies at a higher rate than whites: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/latinos-movies_n_4221232.html

Also, Hollywood movies are not limited to release in just the United States. Unlike any foreign film industry, Hollywood movies are released all over the world and these movies are very successful all over the world. Your Transformers 4 example is misleading because the only reason Chinese actors were hired in that movie was simply to help the film be released in China since the CCP has very strict rules about which non-Chinese movies are allowed to be distributed in China. You thinking it was because Chinese people won't see a movie unless it has Chinese people is flat out incorrect. Take for example the movie "Need for Speed". That movie made more money in China than any other country including the U.S. and that movie has no Chinese actors in it. It's the same scenario with the recent Point Break remake that also had no Chinese actors in it. Furthermore, in 2014 both Jurassic World and Furious 7 were box office monsters in China and neither movie had any Chinese actors in in them.

So if nonwhite people all around the world have no problem going to see movies with people that don't look like them, then it seems that it's actually some whites that are projecting their own racism onto everyone else when they use this unbelievable angle to defend whitewashing.

The rest of what you write is unconvincing. And again, it's nothing new. The idea that hiring nonwhites to play nonwhites being a "detriment to artistic integrity" is just a thinly veiled attempt to defend white supremacist practices that have continually hurt nonwhite talent for decades and decades by wasting their lives and skills in favor of whites just because they are white as well as hurting nonwhite audiences who don't get to see themselves in the same grand lights that white Americans do on a daily basis. It has been proven, that these white supremacist casting practices lowers the self esteem of nonwhite Americans: http://www.racebending.com/v4/blog/study-examines-television-diversity-self-esteem/

It's not that hard. It's called "equal opportunity". The character is nonwhite? Find a nonwhite talent. White supremacy however is in the way and that needs to be eliminated.

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IF we are taking about somebody who can play Light in this movie then I think Ross Butler(He is Korean) would be a good choice




I'm gonna show you something beautiful everyone screaming for mercy

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Name ten actors who aren't Jackie Chan.

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