Well I am sorry you feel that way. I don't feel that there was any stereotyping going on - stereotyping is exclusively with regards to widely held / popular views, not personal experiences. Making an observation about the behaviour of certain people based on cultural similarities is more of an archetype than a stereotype. A stereotype would be like "Mexicans are lazy" or "French people are rude". Saying "I have worked with hundreds young Asians in theatre and they almost-all share these traits" is an archetype.

For me, I worked in a company where we had a lot of Asian employees, young Asian employees especially, and the pressure they put themselves under was huge. It was acknowledged around the company and we were all taught to expect certain behaviours and taught to try and support it the best we could. Hence my post to you was entirely supportive and aimed at being helpful and sympathetic to different cultures.

We found that these Asian people would put themselves under huge pressure to never make a mistake. And making mistakes was seen, by themselves, as a "failure" and it crushed them. And it seemed that no matter how much we might say to them not to worry, it took a long time to convince people that making mistakes is completely OK and it's how we learn from our experience.

I did say in my first post that the behaviour was not limited to Asians. Just common. It was all meant entirely supportively to you. Whether or not you feel that any or all of those observations apply to you, I just hope you can go forward and do what you want to do without putting yourself under heaps of pressure to never go wrong. Because it's completely OK to trial and error. It's completely OK to have a go at something and mess it up and learn what you'd rather do next time. It is not "failure", just "experience".