Its not just about how Asians aren't portrayed in the media, but how. Not only do you not see an Asian play a main role, the only times an Asian does is when they are a kung fu master (Jet Li or Jackie Chan), science whiz, or Buddhist monk. Usually they are very fobby characters like Hiro Nakam...
I believe without religion, people would continue to do remarkably stupid and barbaric things. But you are right, people do do terrible things in the name of their beliefs. Same can be said for anything i suppose. Hitler's religion was that Jews were inferior and needed to be exterminated.
Its not just about how Asians aren't portrayed in the media, but how. Not only do you not see an Asian play a main role, the only times an Asian does is when they are a kung fu master (Jet Li or Jackie Chan), science whiz, or Buddhist monk. Usually they are very fobby characters like Hiro Nakam...