This is interesting to me for a few different reasons. Pro wrestling has never had a good history of its portrayal of minorities. If you could do a Russian dialect, you played a Communist. If you were from the Middle East, you were a Sheik or a terrorist sympathizer, etc etc. The Rock is really the only real minority main event breakout star who became World Champion that I can think of, and that was 20 years ago. (You could make a case for Booker-T, but he was never treated as on the same level as Austin, HHH, etc.) Even most recently, the New Day were supposed to be basically black preacher stereotypes until the performers themselves took it in a different direction while on camera, and fans responded to it. Asian characters have had it especially bad, with nearly any Asian wrestler in WWF/WWE having typically "Asian-sounding" music similar to the Tatsu ride at Magic Mountain, throwing salt into people's eyes and never really getting much interview time.
The WWF/E also has had a habit of believing that if something didn't happen in their company, if they did not create it, that fans won't know about it or respond to it. That attitude has started to change with HHH running their recently formed developmental system and making more of an effort to recruit people with international experience.
Shinsuke Nakamura is one of the biggest wrestling stars in Japan, and he's well known around the world. WWE signed him a year ago, and unlike other people signed to developmental deals, they let him keep his real name and let him remain the person and character that made him famous. (He cites Freddie Mercury, Elvis and Mohammad Ali as his biggest creative and cultural influences in his wrestling career. He's a unique dude...) After a year of learning the WWE production style (playing to certain cameras and such) and improving his already decent English, he got called up to the main roster on Tuesday on live television.
The point: he was allowed to be himself, they treated his debut as a very big deal, and the crowd absolutely lost their collective shit over it. (Listen to them when the violinist first comes out onto the stage. They suspect what's coming...) Nakamura could be the first true-blue Asian main event star in the company's history, (which has been around for over half a century) and the first one that the McMahon family hasn't tried to turn into a ridiculous caricature.
If pro-wrestling can start to get its act together in its portrayal of non-white performers, maybe there's hope for Hollywood and the rest of us.