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It really is so hard and I’m sick and fucking tired of hearing “they look like girls” or “they not speaking English, how do you know what they are saying?”. Fact #1: Those “girls” are making money and doing BIG BOSS SHIT while you work the drive thru(no offense to any fast food workers). So whose really winning? Fact #2: There’s a thing called SUBTITLES where you can see what people who speak a different language are saying. Fact #3: I wonder if they realize that there’s nothing different between KPOP and Westernized music besides the language difference. Like it’s really getting to the point that I don’t even like to bring up anything that involves KPOP to my family because I get the same negative reaction. Where I’m taken as a joke and not considered “black” because I like them. I’ll be really excited about a new music video or a new episode and I can’t express it because when they ask and I give my response, it’s like I’m getting frowned upon. Funniest thing is that they don’t even know how happy my life has been since I discovered KPOP and how they helped me with some things I’ve been struggling with. They only look at “Oh they speak Korean and blah blah blah” but it’s not just the music it’s everything else too that idols stand for and give that makes me and everyone else fans. They are genuine people who share what they love to do with their fans. If I hadn’t discovered KPOP my life would be nothing. 💓💓💓💓
Being a Black K-pop fan...
Before getting into K-pop as a black girl, I wish I knew that it was going to be frustrating sometimes.There are the people of your race that think you are weird for liking Asian music. They think you should listen to only hip hop and rap. But not the Korean kind, the kind like J.Cole and Young Thug. People shame your taste in music because it is not their preference or in English. If the music is good, why should I i care what language it is in? There are people in general that think because of this, you want to be Asian. That isn’t the case. I want to be black and embrace it. I love being black. In my case, I never even paid attention to South Korea before discovering K-pop. When I finally stumbled across Got 7, I feel like I discovered a whole new language and culture that I was never exposed to. (I hope this doesn’t sound disrespectful?) I became super interested in their pop culture and the Korean language and I wanted to learn it. Isn’t that normal? I wish I knew that some of my favorite celebs were problematic when it comes to touchy subjects such as blackface and culture appropriation. Its hard because I don’t know If i should still love them or drop them, even if it is normal Korean citizens. Non black k-pop fans telling us that we are being too dramatic or they excuse their faves’ actions because they are ignorant of other cultures and ethnicities that isn’t their own. Yes, this can be the case for a lot of koreans but a lot of them also know what they are doing when it comes to these things. It doesn’t affect non-black K-pop fans personally so they let it slide. This is the most frustrating part of it all. It hurts but I stick with it because its all about the music anyways.