Why does the American and European media shows all Japanese as fair skinned?

Question

About every movie,TV Show,and newsbroadcasting networks such as CCN show Japanese as being all fair skinned.But the Japanese media shows many Japanese as being olive skinned!Why are Westerners only portraying Japanese as fair skinned?As a man who watches the Japanese media and had lived in Japan for 10 years,I could tell you that not all Japanese are fair skinned and that many of them are olive skinned,tan skinned,and even snow white skinned!So why does the European and American media only show them as fair?Also,why are some Americans stating that the Japanese are the equivalent of whites in Asia and are racist and superior to other Asians and are lighter skinned than every other Asians in Yahoo Answer?

Answer 1

i've never got that impression before or heard anyone saying that before. Whenever i watch television, i don't automatically assume that all fair skinned asians are to be japanese. I dont' stop and say "she's fair skinned, so she must be Japanese". And i really can't remember any shows or movies specifically depicting Japanese to be fair skinned. Most shows or whatever it is that you're watching don't even imply that the asian in it is even Japanese. So how would u know? Exactly, how does the media portray all Japanese to be fair skinned? Because i am confused on how u even got that idea.

Answer 2

That is a darn good question, and I wish I had a darned good answer, however I do not.