TikTok influencer ignites huge feud between Philippines and Korea, starting the #CancelKorea move

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Facebook postBella Poarch, a Filipino TikTok celebrity with 27 million followers, uploaded a dance video on the platform, in said video, a tattoo of the rising sun can be seen on her forearm, immediately prompting Korean users to unleash a barrage of hate towards her, with many of Bella’s countrymen defending her. The incident escalated in such

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[kanonot]

No, outside the comfort women/war-raping, Filipinos tend to have more fondness of Japan and the Japanese people. We love their culture, food and a lot of Filipinos work in Japan as entertainers, more recently nurses (due to Japan's old population and not enough young people to take care of them). After the war ( again outside the Comfort Women issue) Filipinos have had an amicable relationship with Japan.

I mean it's also worth to note that Filipinos hold on to a lot colonial values from the Spanish (Eurocentric standard beauty & Catholicism), The Americans (language & culture) and to an extent Japanese and other East Asian Countries for their skin-fairness and relativity to wealth & businesses.

Filipinos are ingrained with very amicable personalities, so we tend to let things go as long as everyone is feeling happy and no one messes with our "faith with god".

idk, tbh, i'm Filipino and i see it that way because i've lived in the Philippines and outside of it.
It sucks that we are so easily fascinated by our colonists, but we're also just so happy-go- lucky that the past hardly bothers anyone.

[aaronnyc89]

[kanonot]

It's a country that loves to smile, and a lot of Filipinos don't have the luxury to travel outside the country unless it's for work (our main export is labor all around the world, and remittance make up so much of the economy). There is so much poverty that the last thing they worry about is the history of our colonial past, but how to get money and or how to get out of the country. Embracing the colonial values to us is sign of wealth and power, so that's been the standard for a little over 120 years.

[manu19]

This reminds me of this old lady I talked to in the Philippines who was like „we are very thankful. The Spanish brought us religion and the Americans brought us knowledge“ I was like 🤔

[teacoat]

Do you think it's a generational thing? I've had filipino friends who were into anime and stuff tell me they can't talk about it around their grandparents. Same with friends from other parts of S/EA.

But considering Japan colonized Korea for decades before WW2 even started (and many times before that throughout history), it makes total sense that those wounds would run deeper.

[kanonot]

definitely, the generation that were around during the second WW are def. much more aware of the history.
But the current generations, Filipino "boomers", to the current generation, has only known Japan as the place to go to make money, popularized karaoke (although a FIlipino invented it), cellphones, anime and all other things Japanese that we enjoyed and or enjoying to this day.

I mean we have a fond word nickname (Japayuki) for Filipinos that go to japan and or of Filipino-Japanese heritage, so that speaks a lot of how much we (the current generations) hardly vilify Japan for their war atrocities ( again out side of the comfort women).

[chrryblssmninja]

def is generational. I grew up with my grandma who had many stories about "the Japanese time." i don't think she would be happy with this flag, but she was totally fine with later Japanese generations because "they're different."

[aspacecake]

This is super informative. One of my closests friends is Filipina and has stated more or les the same thing

[clymnestra]

I definitely thought I was already more critical against the Japanese than the average person, but then discussing it with my South Korean friend realized that completely different level of vitriol he had. He outright would turn into a different person discussing the Japanese.

Tbh the Philippines, as you said eloquently, is an amicable culture. It's a culture that was once browbeaten into and now embraces being accomodating towards others and forgetting slights towards acceptance or opportunity. It's really depressing when I think about this, especially in context with all the Marcos shit.