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[arbitrary_greay]

This article is amazing.

It is so amazing that I have nothing to add. It covers every point I could possibly want to make and more.

Discuss?

Comments

[askbask]

"Adding a white member, however, does nothing to further the dialogue, but it does further propagate the idea that at the end of the day, white people are entitled to anything and everything they want

[arbitrary_greay]

My response is hindered by my brain not having been in essay-style configuration for a while.

The short story is that I've been having lots and lots of conversations and thoughts about representation and privilege in media and how they reflect upon/influence society. (gender, sexuality, ethnicity, age) As an Asian American, the linked post resonated with some of the feelings I've unearthed over the course of said conversations.

In the course of writing the long story, which will involve point-by-point discussion of your comment, I may even find myself ultimately in the wrong, so I thank you for your patience while I digest everything and check every kneejerk rebuttal I come up with.

[koganbot]

There's other stuff I want to write this weekend, so probably won't weigh in on this much. But I do want to say that I'm with Mat on this (in case he ends up all alone): thought the piece was childish and narcissistic and resentment-ridden (though it's not the author's fault that the person who reposted it added all those bolds and underscores; the original is in Seoulbeats). Also thought Patricia, the author, showed no curiosity whatsoever as to what might happen, since she'd already decided in advance what it all meant. Seems like the opposite of you, AG, in this regard. You seem endlessly curious. Anyway, Korean xenophobia isn't one of the great aggravations and issues in my life, but I can imagine that someone can think that the xenophobia needs breaking down (to the extent that it's there; I'm not really knowledgeable on the issue), that K-pop, like everything else, has to adapt to an international, multi-ethnic future, while that person can simultaneously feel ambivalent about the possibility of a lot of white Europeans and

[koganbot]

I also suspect that the crucial ethnic issue in Korea is whether immigrants from Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, and so forth will be accepted as Korean. But I have no knowledge on that particular subject.

[greywing]

Oh boy. Let me see if I can remove myself from pondering bi-phobia and reorient myself to thinking about race (because let's be real, I've been happily slipping down the slope of shipping two fictional white women who probably just end up betraying one another . . . again. I actually dropped into the comm today because I just so happened to pop my old K-pop mix form 2009 into my CD player and was listening to "Gee" and then amused myself by imagining Tatiana Maslany as the clones being SNSD. It was amazing. I actually think Alison would have the moves for it, but Sarah would be all "Wtf is this shit?" while Cosima might already be aware of K-pop depending on her type of nerdiness and geekery XD