Hollywood's Colorism Problem Can't Be Ignored Any Longer "But we’re not magical creatures, we’re contemporary peoples who are Every time Democrats bring us up it's for election purposes; it's not to talk about how the fiscal control board is literallyruining every possibility our island has Given the fact that I grew up in a mixed household where I was an Asian adoptee and my parents were Caucasian, they never really talked about the history of discrimination that Chinese and other Asian Americans have been through. That’s something that kind of gets brushed over in school too. When I actually discovered some of this information, it was so shocking.… This country used Chinese Americans to build the railroads, and then the Chinese weren’t even allowed to show up to the ceremony when the railroads opened. That alone gives me chills.