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Originally Posted by ukmu

En Sabah is right. Someone from India and Pakistan is the common term for Asian here in Britain. Even on government forms, a person of East Asia decent is simply known as Chinese British even if they are from Japan or Korea. In non official documents the term "oriental" is used as a blanket word to not offend. Seems backwards to me but hey, what do I know. But yeah, I agree with you Kernal.

So Sir Ben is of Asian British heritage.

But yeah, the could not have used someone from China as that is now 30% of the cinema market so all studios now shy away from Chinese villains. Also, they were going to use someone from the Middle East, but due to anti Muslim propaganda fear mongering, they went a different route. There are rumours that we have yet to see the last of Mandarin in the MCU and the actor cover may have been a diversion according to statements the cast and crew have said. We will see....

That's been confirmed in a one shot short film that it wasn't the real Mandarin and that the real one isn't happy about the impostor.

They are leaving the door open to come back to that because it was hinted at in the first movie that the real mandarin/ten rings organization is around. Ironman 3 used the impostor and the leader of AIM picked up on the rumors to use for his own ends, but the real one has yet to be fully developed in story and probably won't until after Infinity War unless it comes up over in Agents of SHIELD.

So yeah. It was only a 'stall tactic' until they can better figure out how to integrate that character into the MCU. His 'alien jewelry' is awfully close to the infinity stones as it is though, so it may be awhile before they dabble into that story too much.

I do eventually expect a hands of mandarin and armor wars MCU story though. Ironman 3 set up both, but who knows if they'll use those outlying aspects from the films.