>It’s difficult to judge whether a character fairly portrays a specific ethnicity, but we can assess whether an actor and the character they portray share the same ethnicity as a baseline for accurate representation.
Do we know all the required details that the article implies?
I know folks who are from an Asian country, not China, but in their country they are thought of as "ethnic Chinese" and yet their family has no connection to China what is that then?
How does that even work?
What about people who have genetic connections but no real cultural connection? I'm reminded of a story about a black man who didn't know much about his past, he took a genetic test only to find out his genetic background was more native American than black. He asked his mom and she said "I'm too old to stop being a black woman."
Matching people to a given story seems like an endless minefield.