Excerpt from, “George Takei,
the Best Driver in the Galaxy,” by Nicole Pasulka, Mother Jones,
Sept/Oct 2012
Back in the 1960s, when actor George Takei landed
the part of Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, he knew how lucky he was. Sulu
defied the two-dimensional stereotypes that infused most of the roles then
available to Asian American actors, and Takei knew from experience how insidious those stereotypes could be.
Insidious: proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects;
treacherous
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