For a long time, the roles given to ethnic Chinese in America's television and movie industries were either refugees, or gangsters fighting and making trouble in the streets.
長久以來，美國電視電影界賦予華裔演員的角色，不是嘗盡顛沛流離的難民、移民，便是在唐人街打架、鬧街的幫派份子。