Should he have mentioned her “almond eyes" or her fondness for rice?

You must not have been a STEM student.

Hahahaha. Right it’s simply that white people are more qualified for the role of “x ethnic minority.” You cracked the case, marple.

Except the book is not set in the UK because the UK will never launch a fart past the atmosphere. It was an extremely international book written by an American who took pains to make it so. Your arguement suggests that she ignored the source and was bad at her job.

Did you eat lead paint as a child?

I’m sorry you live in a flyover state

Sorry he didn’t explicitly write a passage where she eats kimchi for enthnocentrist idiots like you.

And there are plenty of people who ARE believe it or not. Why is your assumption better than anyone else's based on experience? Oh right, because you're white.

Oh is it. So glad you’re around to help all the overexcited minorities see reason. It would be just as bad to have that limited big screen representation as being relegated to racial limbo for the nth time.

It’s funny - as an Asian woman I remember reading the Martian and being really pleased and surprised that a writer created an Asian main character that was neither the romantic lead nor the nerdy tech person who read out stats.