'Daily Show' Aasif Mandvi Attacks Hollywood For 'Whitewashing' "So I think this upsets a lot of ethnic people, ethnic actors because this is something that is perpetuated by hollywood in this idea that white is the norm and if you want to identify with the hero, identify with the person on the screen, he or she has to be white. And America’s not the same as it was 50 years ago and I think those things should change now."