Can texts ever be truly representative of groups of people?

Representation of groups on text can not all be true. This is because the information in each text can be viewed differently by different authors. The difference in the cultural backgrounds they have and the way they view different situations.

For example, in “Crazy Rich Asians”, the view of the rich people in Singapore is different from whether a Singaporean person who has only lived in Singapore looks at it, or a person in Europe who has not visited Asia/Singapore before. Another example is that there are quite a lot of films and texts that show the ‘Asian characteristics’ people call it as. Eg. quiet, mathematical, piano players. These are not all true, but when it comes to texts, people tend to imagine the Asians as a character having these characteristics.

Who gets to represent a group and who doesn’t?

I think that anyone is allowed to represent any group they want, but just not in a way of being racist or stating the comparison between the groups. There are different ways people see about each group (eg. religion, culture, belief), which can lead to the learning for people to know how he people in the other group of have a different background see about the group you are in.

For example in “Crazy Rich Asians”, it was produced by an Asian author(Kevin Kwan) and director(Jon M. Chu). This represents how the Chinese-American people themselves see the group of people shown in the film.