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I think the big question is whether "life imitates art" or "art imitates life".
Movies are a limited medium. You have maybe two hours to tell a story to the widest audience possible. In order to do that you have make concessions with reality and use tricks of the storytelling trade. Unlike in a book where you can spend as much time as you want exploring every aspect of a character, in movies you're limited by what you can show the audience visually. There's only so much exposition you can have in a movie before you lose the audience.
Also you realize the movies that we're talking about here are predominantly action movies. What's to be expected? The iconic characters in these movies are meant to be that way. It heralds back to the days of the Lone Ranger, the old westerns where the guy with the black hat was the bad guy. I'm sure it goes back the beginning of storytelling but that was the best reference I could think of.
Yes there is discrimination in the world. No it's not fair. In my opinion there's no such thing as reverse discrimination, there's just discrimination. Plain and simple. But what you're asking for in movies is some sort of Affirmative Action, or quota system for bad guys.
"If Lethal Weapon 1 had an evil white guy in it, then Lethal Weapon 2 has to have an evil black guy in it. And number three has to have an evil Chinese guy in it. Ah crap, all our villains are men...." See? It doesn't work.
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