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back from the longest hiatus of my life did ym miss me
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@2OOOFILES just did !!
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merry christmas loves<3
hope you got everything you wanted today (if you celebrate)
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HELP MY HABIT OF CALLING PPL PET NAMES KS BACK??? like i used to do it a lot last summer but it's back so like if you don't like them lmk b4 i accidentally overstep my boundaries
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nah bc why is ur username my name
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i hate hot weather which is ironic because im from a hot country
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IT'S MY BIRTHDAY
ONE TIME FOR THE BIRTHDAY BIHHH
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pls imma need to take a break from zwol ya girl forgot her plot
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LOLOLOLOL i was supposed to update zwol yesterday
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im taking a break from kpop and my books will be unpublished until i come back to it. [not that a lot of read them but i feel like i owe people an explanation]
i finished watching the adeola ash video and i am disgusted.
kpop is built on black culture until it comes to ca and then it's 'i didn't know.'
and fans love to blame it on the stylist,, when the idol has often asked for the hair.
and chan? chans broke me the most. 'i love the culture and all...' the fact that that is always their excuse for cultural appropriation... chan has no excuse nor do the countless other idols who have done these things with a western upbringing. [wendy, jaehyun, mark, jackson, henry, the list goes on.]
for example, 'heuk noona' [흑 누나] and 'heuk hyung' [흑형], putting black people on a pedestal because of the stereotype that we can all dance/ we are all athletic.
or taeyeon from snsd calling alicia keys pretty for a black person. that in itself is a stereotype that afrocentric features [which most black people have] are undesirable and unattractive. saying that, alicia keys, a black woman, is attractive even though she is black is stereotypical and harmful.
or yuri's [also from snsd] impersonation of black people on reality tv. 'yo! you die' for black men, and for black women, 'whats the problem?' with a finger click and sassy movements. this applies to the stereotype that black men are aggressive and black women are ghetto.
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@kaesokae i also forgot to mention hongjoong, who apologised for his use of cornrows in an interview. link: https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/ateez-interview namjoon apologised for his use of the nword in a shinhwa cover and his blaccent, for want of a better word. he has shown improvement and remorse therefore i believe other idols can do so.
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@kaesokae and finally, black culture as a whole in not only the kpop industry, but also korea in general. in korea, there is something called an afro perm, meaning you can adopt hair textures associated with africans. [3a-4c hair] this is talked about in the video. black people and their culture are often used as props in kpop. [talked about in the article] many kpop idols have worn durags/ braids and other black hairstyles. there may be other cultures that use braids but, as talked about in the video, they are very different to black braids. [the video also discusses lisas yarn braids and what thai braids are.] many kpop idols have said the n-word and few have apologised and moved on to become a better person. a few examples of those who have said the word: kim namjoon jennie kim [trainee days, the video is in the video] shinhwa yg trainee mentioned in the video jaehyun there are many others however i cannot remember their names. that is all i have to say on the matter. most of what i have said is in the video, which is 40 minutes long. video: https://youtu.be/AQ0tR4RXMHY extra information/where i got some of my basis points: http://www.localblactivist.com/2017/05/the-commodification-and-exploitation-of.html?m=1