It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions and standards - are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
Every child deserves to see themselves in stories they can enjoy, but it isn't the place of white people to decide how and why those stories are created and marketed.
Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.
There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.