iSteve commenter Duke of Qin writes:

Steve Sailer writes in his new Taki’s Magazine column:

The Indian moviegoing masses seem to share the pro-Aryan prejudices of the old Northern European philosophers, with most Bollywood stars drawn from the fairer and taller Northern Indians with more steppe descent.

Steve, you are certainly not aware of this and most Chinese are probably ignorant of this too, but the Chinese entertainment industry does discriminate against “Southern” Chinese. By “Southern” I mean explicitly the extreme south coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. What is interesting is that the discrimination while quantifiable seems to be entirely directed against women and doesn’t seem to impact men or perhaps not to anywhere near a significant degree so no one seems to care or even recognize it. I actually compiled a list of major Chinese TV shows within the last few years featuring young “starlets” in lead and supporting roles and basically out of the hundred or so actresses I looked at, I couldn’t find one of Guangdong or Fujian ancestry. The few mainland TV productions that did feature actresses from these two provinces were always 40+ and playing the old lady roles, and mainly from Hong Kong. This is surprising because these are two of China’s wealthiest provinces and Guangdong at least is one of China’s most populous so you would expect more actresses coming from there but no.

The young actresses came from practically every other provinces, with even Yunnan represented. The areas of China that were overrepresented are basically divided into three regions: the North China heartland of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong (Shandong is especially overrepresented) and adjacent Dongbei (Again heavily overrepresented and since these populations are descended from 19th century Shandong emigres), the Jiangnan region covering Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and finally Sichuan.

Basically the areas over-represented fit into long held Chinese regional stereotypes. Northern beauties are tall and fair, Jiangnan cuties are feminine and cultured, Sichuan hotties are extra “spicey”. Guangdong women, and to a lesser degree Fujian are generally stereotyped in China as short, dark, and worst of all shrewish. What hits them worse than their physical shortcomings is the stereotype of them as unpleasant and demanding women prone to henpeckery.