LOL! I encounter this ALL the time in Europe. In my case, I am told that I do not look like a 'real' American. It happens near constantly, and not just in Latin or Mediterranean countries either. The last time it happened I was in the Piccadilly Circus area of London (pre-Brexit) trying to buy doughnuts for my office colleagues. The shop lady repeatedly asked about my lineage. Eventually I loudly informed her that on both sides of my family I am descended from African people who were forceably brought to what is now the USA and enslaved more than 300 years ago. Basically, the only way my family could be more American is if we were descended from Native Americans. In the end she looked extremely embarrassed, and I bought the doughnuts elsewhere.
They will always call you by something special, that way it is easier to identify you. Trust me bro I know how you halfies are feeling, I am Hazara from northern Afghanistan and like most central asians we are mixed with a lot of nations. Some of my cousins don't look like me or my other hazara friends. I live in Belgium and my friends get sometimes confused seeing my cousins or other family members.
I am half korean and have dealt with this all my life. It means so much to me that you guys are discussing these issues that have never been in this kind of forum before. It validates me. Thank you.
@@guysovereignstop promoting the WMAF vs AMWF thing it makes me feel like shit just for existing and I've been struggling with hating being half white ever since
Im not biracial but feel this convention is so important for those of us who r not to learn and understand what some going through this will feel. I want to be the best me I can be and it starts by being open about my downfalls. Then understand others by learning their stories and narratives. Thank you for such a great lesson on understanding being biracial.💖💖💖
Thank you guys for these discussions! Although I and my daughter are not mixed Korean, I am hispanic and daughter is mixed Chinese (fathers side) along with my own heritages. We expose her to her Chinese culture and language as much as we are able to. As for my side, it is a bit hard because I never felt like I belonged due to my appearance, but deep down I know Colombian culture is part of my identity no matter what those on the outside think. Although it’s a movie, Encanto showing a diverse family really reflected my own and seeing the sister who was fair like me and still Colombian. I felt seen. I want my daughter to feel seen, and so hearing her when she goes through some of these identity encounters. I hope we can discuss together. So thank you for what you both do!!!
Let's also not forget that our generation's (millennials) parents were told to only speak English in the house because it could 'confuse' or 'slow the language-learning process' for the kids which further distanced us from that aspect of Korean culture unfortunately and similarly to Korean adoptees. I have a lot of Korean-adoptee friends and while both of our experiences are very different, there are a lot of complex feelings that overlap when we come to Korea and try to integrate back into Korean society.
THIS!!! This is exactly what I’ve been trying to explain to people on why I get so mad when they say ‘well you don’t look ‘insert race’! It’s so disrespectful and frustrating; not to mention ignorant. Just because you don’t look like something, doesn’t mean you aren’t. It completely undermines your whole identity, and mentally really messes you up.
Great topic Korean Adoptees the experience is a little different with mixed Korean Adoptees than someone with 2 Korean parents biologically. Stay positive I have heard so many stories
Great discussion. I wonder if this perception of mixed Koreans will fade over time. My daughter is half Korean, half Jamaican ethnically. Citizenship wise, she's Korean and British (yes I know I need to get a move on with her Jamaican citizenship).... However if she were to visit Jamaican and explore her paternal heritage, nobody would question if she's Jamaican as there are hundreds of years of mixing backing her up. On the flip side in Korea based on your experiences i'm sure she'd feel aware of the social perception of her, at least until everyone is seeing her through Beckie's eyes and picking up "ah yeah, definitely mixed Korean!"... In this sense once society is more a-tuned with obvious mixed features the perception will fade.... Wishful thinking? By the way even in London she sees Koreans as looking like mum. If there's ever a mixed Korean, they are half white so she may already be becoming aware of the perception internally.
I am half Chinese and half white. I live in the US in the SF bay area. I feel all of this. I am lucky to have grown up around other bi-racial people, but in the end I always felt I was never enough for either side. And I remember checking ethnicity boxes in school and always checking "other". It wasn't until I got older there was a bi-racial group who called themselves Hapa where I found a solid support system. I felt like I finally belonged with this group although we were all different mixes.
Becky, Cedrick, why did I discover this video just now? Excellent job, thank you! For me it was the case that I was always the “Korean kid” growing up. I did look much more Korean before puberty than I do now though. “Little Korean” was sort of my nick name. (I also was very small as a kid😂). But it never bothered me because I owned it and it didn’t make me feel excluded. I had very positive associations with Korea. I knew who I am and grew up without identity issues. Ironically coming to Korea meant that this “being Korean” that I had proudly owned was taken away. Even with a secure identity it took a toll on me being confronted with it on a daily basis. Explaining that my mom is Korean often doesn’t make a difference as you pointed out in the video. “But that doesn’t make you Korean!” I have worked hard to accept this as it is and not be affected by it in my own identity but in the end I think I have to accept that Korea is an integral part of me but I am not going to be a part of Korea. It’s getting better but I will probably need more time to make my own peace with this. The irony is, I get a lot of privileges because I am considered a white foreigner, which is wrong and I feel like I have to be careful talking out because I profit (for the wrong reason). Not an easy topic!
I'm not half Korean, or Korean, but this conversation was very interesting and both of you are very articulate! This topic also made me think about Vernon from Seventeen. He's half Korean and said some times that a lot of people think that he's not Korean because "he don't look Korean". He was born in NY but moved to Korea with 4 years so he said that he's more comfortable with Korean culture, even said that his Korean is better that his English but people still look surprise when he speaks Korean.
I really enjoyed this conversation and how it resonates with me personally as I’ve shared before. I think it’s so interesting that in the experience of half Koreans living in Korea, there are people who get the say through their assumption of whether or not you’re Korean. I can’t help but here the internalized message “not good enough”. I think it’s so brave and potentially healing in half Koreans feeling more connected to their Korean culture however that looks and wanting to explore that in Korea. It has me wonder for people who make those assumptions, what’s the harm in someone being associated with being Korean and not “looking like” you? What’s the fear of including them? Can you pause and ask yourself why you have that reaction towards half Koreans who don’t “present like you”? Overall lots of important points and also has me think of so many questions! Great video 😊
Hi, are there any examples exactly of people saying you are not "Korean", "Korean enough", "good enough" etc? Do comments like that only happen from people outside of your mix? Like will Korean people actually come out with such comments? Or would it be Blacks, Whites etc? I guess this is also directed to The Halfie Project please if you read this....
@@nathanielmills4678 I know I can only speak for myself and my experiences growing up. It would never be outward “you aren’t Korean or aren’t Korean enough”. More like when people say “you don’t look Korean” or “how are you Korean?” “Is that your real dad?” Etc. I think this can be applied to different populations, especially those who are mixed. I have clients who were born in their country and moved to the US, and also feel their not __ enough and for some of them, people back home in their country have outwardly told them that. I share this to say that it can happen to anyone when someone makes an assumption based on physical appearance. I think it’s important to note that we all perceive these messages differently and how we internalize them is unique to each of us. Someone can say a comment like that to you and you might not think anything of it, whereas someone can say that to me and it may sting a little.
I feel the sting as I look more of one ethnicity in my mix than my parents. My mother is Mexican (native) and white (American), and dad is Colombian (mestizo). I came out with lighter features and I have felt I had to prove my ethnic background on so many occasion in school (US), or asked if I’m adopted and what not. While others saying/questioning my background may mean nothing to them, internally it does sometimes hurt to hear those remarks. My daughter is mixed as well (father is Chinese), and I already see people on both sides picking her features. Which bothers me and do not want that to affect how she views herself.
@@alisha1377 thank you for sharing that. I can understand in that feeling of needing to feel like you have to prove yourself and depending on your physical features, it can create a sense of uncertainty, confusion, and even for some dislike towards self. I think it's great that you recognize that sting and the self-healing part i imagine is being able to affirm yourself that you are enough and are all your ethnicities however much you want to identify with. I believe NO ONE can tell you what you are, even though they might. I think we can hold true to ourselves in knowing we're enough and appreciating the blend we're able to have and/or represent, and model that for others who are multiracial.
I'm half korean, half irish and I spent most of my life thinking I'm korean. The reality which may be hard to bear, depending on your situation is that mixed people are their own race. They are WHOLE people and a SINGULAR energy and being! At least for me as a man, I can't juggle multiple identities.. the truth leads to more realizations that it's basically like I'm a new tribe of human that I have to discover myself and also introduce to every person I meet. Because while singular races have many examples of art, food, culture that reflect them, that has not been created for people like me.
This was a very interesting conversation to listen to and it really broadened my awareness of the struggles that other people face concerning their race, culture and identity in circumstances that are different to my own. I am a South African "coloured" which is supposed to be my race but it actually is not, because I am mixed race. At this present time, I don't even know what my ancestral heritage is- this has been frustrating and at times isolating, I have also felt lost not knowing. But South Africa's coloured population is large and I can at least say "I am coloured" and no-one will argue with me or say no, you're not. I want to sincerely empathise with the Halfie community, with all the personal pain and hardship that comes from being mixed. I also want to CELEBRATE the beauty of being mixed that far outweighs the perceived "negatives"- there are none. Where parts of the rest of society has written a particular narrative for us, we have one that they will never know anything about- and it is filled with so much beauty. I hope that what I have shared makes sense- YOU INSPIRE ME TO BE ME.
Hello~ I am so glad you guys are having these conversations, highlighting our unique mixed culture! I have been living in Korea for 6 months now as a halfie. I visited many times over my lifetime, but it wasn't until my mother passed away that I really felt free to live here full time. Also, I felt that I reached a point in my life where I would no longer be overwhelmed by the Korean culture demanding me to act a certain way to gain acceptance. I know who I am now. I don't need anyone to accept me... That being said, I was referred to a Korean pre-school for a job interview where I would be teaching 3 year olds (4 year olds as they still say here). Going into the interview, I wasn't very invested in getting the job, but I was curious to see how quickly they would break all the rules Americans have about not asking my age, marital status, etc... It turned out, their main concern was that I wasn't a "real native American" (let's not get me started here on how this interviewer was misusing the term native American!) but a gyopo. She said, "You are an American-Korean." After all my years of being called white in Korea and Asian in America, where growing up I was deprived of my Korean community, it was really disheartening to hear that I was automatically disqualified from a job teaching 3 year olds in my first language, English! Especially because I have a masters degree in speech-language pathology and years of experience focusing on this particular age group in America. The entire situation was absurd. Let me emphasize the absurdity, I messaged this woman and within 10 minutes, she replied asking me to interview the same day. I accommodated her request, and yet- it took two weeks before they made a final decision to tell me they hired someone else. Well, yeah, my experience here as a Korean-American halfie is to not need anyone's approval or validation. The people who matter consider me part of the "우리", and those who don't- don't matter to me.
My mom is from Korea and immigrated from Korea in 1981. My father's side is Sicilian, Greek, Irish, and Scottish. I don’t "look" Korean. Most Koreans think I'm Latina lol.
I'm 100% Chinese, born in the US. I look Chinese. My closest friends are half-Chinese. Many Asian Americans thought I was too Asian growing up, and white people often think I'm too Asian.
Really interesting discussion guys. As a half Korean half Polish born in Sweden, I am very surprised about the negativity you guys have faced where people questioning your heritage. I have never ever experienced that, neither from Swedes, Poles nor Koreans. The reactions I have gotten are always positive. So I'm curious, is this something perhaps more common in America? And is it Americans or Koreans that are saying these things?
To me, I didn’t face it that much in the US (granted I lived in a very diverse area) but I experienced it like 100x more when I lived in Korea most likely because it is so homogeneous and blood purity value is still a tradition that certain ppl follow. I had my identity questioned constantly and people would always call me a foreigner and never believed me when I said I was (half) Korean
보다보니 할말이 생겼네요 . 듣기로는 미국에서도 한미혼혈형제 자매조차도 전형적인 백인모습에 가까울수록 미국사회에 더 잘 적응하고 잘 받아들여지고 본인의 만족도도 높다고 들었고 한국인의 외모에 가까울수록 미국에서 차별의 경험이 많아서 방황하고 한국을 더 찾게되는경우가 많다고 들었습니다. 이것만봐도 미국도 차별이 존재하고 백인우월주의가 심각하다는걸 알고있고 심지어는 그걸 백인주류에게 항의조차 하지못하고있다는걸 느끼는데 그건 본인의 자신감부족아닌가요? 되려 외국인에게 호의적인 한국에와서 더 드러내고 표현하는게 좀 웃긴다는 생각도 듭니다. 한국인을 이해하려면 그저 태어나보니 한국인이라서 어쩔수없이 받아들이는 장단점 내지는 선함과 악함까지도 서로 암묵적으로 인정하는 내면세계와 단일민족이라는 끈이 존재합니다. 그뿌리되는 사건중 하나가 임진왜란등이래로 단일혈족이 외계세계로부터 침략당하는 아픔의 경험이 대를이이서 내재화된것 입니다. 우리끼리 똘똘뭉쳐야만 살아남을수 있다는 뜻입니다. 무조건 같은사람 같은 반응을 보이라고 강요만하지말고 한국민의 기원 아픔등을 공부해보세요. 진정한 관계는 그사람의 아픔을 이해할때 시작된다고 생각합니다. 여건만 된다면 님을 만나서 대화를 해보고 싶습니다. 해줄말들이 아주많습니다.
Thinking that maybe Corea have been quite a closed society during long time. I am European, we tend to look, he must be Italian, she must be french for example. We tent to want to know from where people are, and then relax. Here you go 500 km and change a little bit looks, traditions and language. To be rude to speak over somebody's head that is something very different if you ask me. Interesting topic you discuss.good luck
I don't think you can clearly identify that someone is full Japanese or full Chinese. Even people from Japan and China may not be able to tell because a lot of East Asians share similar facial features. Same goes for Koreans. You may not know until you hear the person speak. Also, countries like Korea are still highly racially homogenous, so if someone looks like a foreigner, it's a normal reaction to think they may not speak the language or understand the cultural nuances. It's not the fault of the locals because of their limited exposure and experience to those outside their bubble.
I’m half Korean and half Afro Puerto Rican and I don’t give a damn what anyone classifies me as. I KNOW what I am and I’m proud. I love both my cultures. I’m both. And if Koreans don’t like it, they can shut up and get out of my way. We focus too much trying to place people into categories. If Koreans don’t claim me as one of them that’s fine. Then they shouldn’t have had our American military fight for them during the war. Our military is still there. Many of us were born during that war. Yet you insult mixed Koreans. While you were saved by their fathers who fought for your country. Many of them died. Insane. I went back to Korea twice in my life. Most people were very civil but many weren’t. They need to learn their history and how they got to be a free country.
I have an ethnically Korean mom who was an adoptee with no communication whatsoever with her Korean roots. Meanwhile I have an American father who who has a pretty Dutch background. I never know what to call myself! And I am still struggling with feeling validated for whatever I am. I know I'm half-Korean but more than not, I don't feel it because I don't have any of that Korean culture, plus when I see others who are half-Korean, I can't get out of my head that I don't look Korean enough compared to them. Am I Korean American or am I half-Korean? What do I tell people when they ask? I never know...
An adoptee was still born in Korea!so that is a big difference to you people. That person is still more Korean than you two. Obvious isn’t it??? There is no Korean-American/ Korean- whatever. Either you are Korean or not. Period.
So Korean is a genetic condition? There is no "pure" Korean genetically speaking. A person who happens to look like you but completely ignorant of the culture and history is more Korean than someone who was raised by a Korean or has lived a large portion of their life in Korea? This is some eugenic ideas that haven't planned out too well in the past
Extremely welcome to see and hear this conversation, and also cathartic to listen to. I'm a halfie who is chewing on this issue all the time living here in the US, and there are so many facets to it it's easy to lose track of yourself. Thanks for this video.
I gotta share this video with a few of my cousins. They are my oldest cousin's children. And yes, they are biracial: mom is Korean-American and African-American. In my opinion, I say that they were lucky to have been born in our family. Because their biracial and multi-ethnic identities didn't bother us. We didn't have this "choose a side" nonsense. Plus, we also protected them and came to their defense, when they did come across some bigotry.
My mom never looked Korean. She was from Wonsan N.Korea. When she walked into a roomful of Koreans she'd surprise them when she spoke Korean. They'd exclaim "you don't look Korean". Years later I rented a Mongolian movie and there was something familiar about the actors. I realized they looked like my mom. I guess my mom expressed her Mongolian genes more than the average Korean and I'm sure there's a lot of Mongolian DNA in many Koreans whether they want to admit or not. I'm fully Korean. My dad was from Damyang. I never looked fully Korean. Non Asians assigned me with a fully Asian profile growing up in the US but the Koreans treated me a little differently until they realized who my mom was. I guess they assumed my dad was an American GI. Whatever. I married a Mexican American and 2 of my kids look Filipino but one kid looks more Korean than me. He actually takes after my dad.
I respectfully disagree. I speak Korean as my native language, always have so I don’t have a foreign accent or anything, and it hasn’t changed anything for Koreans. Instead it just made me into a “foreigner who happens to speak Korean” but still not recognizing my Korean side. Appearance and blood purity still trumps all, at least it has for all of the people I’ve encountered so far 🤷♀️ I’ve seen some people comment this online but no one actually following this mindset in real life. And just because life as a Korean is hard, it doesn’t excuse the heritage gatekeeping and micro/macro- aggressions that are consistently being dished out and still going on
@@blue3374 I'll be 100% honest here. Each generation has a different standard for 'Koreans'. Young generation will care about things like, _nationality/bred up in Korea/speak Korean/(in the case of men)military service ect_ . And most important thing to them is, *the identity and nationality* . However, there's only one unconditional standard for the older Koreans. It's *the bloodline* . Imagine someone whose parents are ethnically 100% Korean, _but was born and raised in the US, can't speak Korean, has only US citizenship, never been in Korea, and has no plans to come_ . That person is definitely not a 'Korean' to young Koreans, but to older generation, he is. On the other hand, a person _who was born and raised in Korea, acquired Korean citizenship, speaks only Korean, and have never left Korea_ will be a 'Korean' to the younger generation. But i can sure my friends, he/she will always be treated as a foreigner by older Koreans, forever.
@@lawkey14 한국인으로서 동의하기는 좀 힘드네요 가슴아프지만.. 젊은 세대들은 설명해주신 부분에 대해 분명 이전 세대보다 나은 면이 있겠지만, 그렇다고 그렇게까지 크게 인식이 다르진 않다고 생각해요 애초에 다양성 교육 자체가 아직 많이 부족합니다 또 민족개념 인종개념 국적개념에 대한 인식도, 아직까지 백인 한국인 흑인 한국인이 당연히 존재할수 있고 그런 분들에게 어떻게 대해야 실례가 아니다 라는 기본적인 것도 모르는 경우가 많다고 봐요..
It's very important please answer me! Would korean prefer half korean or full another nation's ethnicity such as full indonasian english or taiwanese ? Which one is discriminated less? Wich one is discriminated more?
If you have Korean passport and speak fluent Korean, you will be considered to be Korean no matter which race you look. Do you have Korean passport and speak fluent Korean?
My cousin is half & half. Also the girl I see at the supermarket has a white dad (former middle school teacher) and a Vietnamese mom. My cousins spouse says Americans don't see halfies as white and see Asian men to be weak and small. But maybe after the 90s things may have changed somewhat for those kids. Different to go to school in the 80s and graduate in 93 than 03. Even with increased raxial tensions amongst black and white millennial after 2011 I've seen each other say as long as there not the other so being Asian is ok. Being half cream 😋 & Mello yellow is actually better 💛 like banana split 😋 ..nullifies you from Italians and associates who don't care for the great grandma's Japanese side from 1950s japanese-italian business deals , bad a Bing bam boom haha 🤣
True. I would never have thought the lady, was mixed. But that of course doesn't in any way question the realness of the topic and personal experiences being discussed.
I came to Korea and I stopped saying I am half Korean. Sadly, I don't want to be considered part of this culture anymore, even if half or my genes are. So it is actually relieving that people here don't see me as one
“Korean” genetics are more wonderfully varied than the homogenous stereotypes. Many “Koreans” are mixed and don’t even recognize their is a long history of intermixing from centuries of genetic diversity with a wide variety of peoples (predominantly within Asia until more recent times). Many people don’t seem to recognize how wide a variety of “Korean” people there are and have been genetically. There is a larger, more beautiful range of genetic phenotypes than what people hold in their minds. Especially outside of Seoul it becomes so apparent. There are so many more body types with varying amounts of melanin, height, musculature, hair types, and other physical traits that “break the mold.” Is this a confusion caused by “대한민국/Korean” nationality being conflated with genetics and ethnicity?Sometimes it is a bit concerning how those points are being wrapped up into the false idea of a “Korean race.” >< I’m curious about when and where this uniform, yet shifting, idea of what a Korean person looks like came from. Media? Emerging as an independent “nation” and establishing new definitions as global standards with nationalism emerged? Shifting beauty standards? It’s even more telling how that uniform standard of “Korean-ness” has changed over time. For instance males having beards and long hair was the ultimate mark of a “Korean” nobleman for many centuries. Only recently has that changed. Let’s not get started on how the standards for a 100% Korean female have changed… >< Keep representing~ ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿🙏
Its funny how when it benefits non-koreans, all of a sudden the korean genetic are "wonderfully varied." i thought we were a super homogenous country and all asians look the same? just keep the same energy. if youre half korean you're just half korean by blood. you'll never be korean. if you need to explain to a korean person that you're half then youre basically just not korean and thats okay.
@@jay-iy5zd Impressed by your concise summary of Korean Ethnic Nationalism. If you’re “Korean” by nationality, it is likely you’re pure “Korean” blood is actually mixed. Unless you have been terribly inbred. It’s funny when people chase blood purity ideals, even when well recorded history and genetic haploid groups confirm long-standing genetic mixing between China, Mongolia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, etc. If you feel stronger when you exclude others by claiming that you have “pure blood” despite a notably mixed history, that’s cute.
@@youngsahm03 these fellas made youtube videos themselves about their experiences being discriminated against for not being full korean. so whether you like it or not, koreans exclude mutts and won't accept them. so sorry to burst your bubble. but if you want to keep coping and say we're all mixed so half koreans are just as korean by virtue of us being mixed, thats cute.
@@jay-iy5zd Fun to see you exemplify and confirm the issue which is the subject of this video, again. Your expert bubble bursting continue to impress cutie!
Well, to be honest: It’s a fact that you guys are just half Korean, so it’s logic that you are not real Korean!what’s the matter then? Your boyfriend is clearly not real Korean. So……? He doesn’t look Korean at all in my opinion.
I'm curious how you guys feel since all this stuff around race is occurring in America and the globe. In the U.S. how you look racially is very important but not very acknowledged. I am much older than you (the speakers in the video). But I am half Korean. I've never been to Korea and don't speak Korean. I am a product of the post-war diaspora; my mother married an American soldier.
Interesting how people with both Korean parents and look like the stereotypical Korean at the same time are obsessed with Japanese, Chinese, American and European cultures. Like if they don't like half koreans or multiracial Koreans identifying as Korean, why don't they stop wearing t-shirts, jeans, vintage gowns, sweatpants, rompers, and etc. Why can't they wear hanbuk and wear cloth shoes and only use Korean terms and live in a wooden Korean house with no glass doors? Or why don't they stop using the internet because it was invented in the US? Or why can't they stop listening to kpop or use the guitar? Why dont most koreans listen to gugak and pansori only, using Korean instruments that don't come from China or Japan? LMAO Even some outsiders know Korea is so diverse. I don't think any Korean Supremacist would ever want to live a life without globalization.
how do u know gugak and pansori? we are definitely not supremacist. we are just not familiar with foreigners and mixed. this cant be changed until we see many foreigners in real life. imagine when american meet alien who claim half american.
Have you been told this before, whether explicitly or implicitly? What’s your response?
I've been told the opposite of this: you're not white . you don't "look" white. Therefore, you aren't.
LOL! I encounter this ALL the time in Europe. In my case, I am told that I do not look like a 'real' American. It happens near constantly, and not just in Latin or Mediterranean countries either. The last time it happened I was in the Piccadilly Circus area of London (pre-Brexit) trying to buy doughnuts for my office colleagues. The shop lady repeatedly asked about my lineage. Eventually I loudly informed her that on both sides of my family I am descended from African people who were forceably brought to what is now the USA and enslaved more than 300 years ago. Basically, the only way my family could be more American is if we were descended from Native Americans. In the end she looked extremely embarrassed, and I bought the doughnuts elsewhere.
korean + non korean = non korean. You're not korean or the other you're a mix, you're biracial.
Response? It's the truth, plain and simple. You're not Korean, you're half Korean
Bro, seriously.. In Korea, my cousins call me their white relative vs the states, my white cousins call me their korean relative. hahaha we cant win.
They will always call you by something special, that way it is easier to identify you.
Trust me bro I know how you halfies are feeling, I am Hazara from northern Afghanistan and like most central asians we are mixed with a lot of nations.
Some of my cousins don't look like me or my other hazara friends. I live in Belgium and my friends get sometimes confused seeing my cousins or other family members.
So stop interracial marriage simple
@@songoku-jj2to you're crazy we don't have to all be purely one race and most of us are already mixed so there no going back
I am half korean and have dealt with this all my life. It means so much to me that you guys are discussing these issues that have never been in this kind of forum before. It validates me. Thank you.
If your father is Korean then that means something good.
But chances are that your mother is the korean...
@@guysovereignstop promoting the WMAF vs AMWF thing it makes me feel like shit just for existing and I've been struggling with hating being half white ever since
Im not biracial but feel this convention is so important for those of us who r not to learn and understand what some going through this will feel. I want to be the best me I can be and it starts by being open about my downfalls. Then understand others by learning their stories and narratives. Thank you for such a great lesson on understanding being biracial.💖💖💖
This is such a heartwarming comment ily 💕
Thank you guys for these discussions! Although I and my daughter are not mixed Korean, I am hispanic and daughter is mixed Chinese (fathers side) along with my own heritages. We expose her to her Chinese culture and language as much as we are able to. As for my side, it is a bit hard because I never felt like I belonged due to my appearance, but deep down I know Colombian culture is part of my identity no matter what those on the outside think. Although it’s a movie, Encanto showing a diverse family really reflected my own and seeing the sister who was fair like me and still Colombian. I felt seen. I want my daughter to feel seen, and so hearing her when she goes through some of these identity encounters. I hope we can discuss together. So thank you for what you both do!!!
Let's also not forget that our generation's (millennials) parents were told to only speak English in the house because it could 'confuse' or 'slow the language-learning process' for the kids which further distanced us from that aspect of Korean culture unfortunately and similarly to Korean adoptees. I have a lot of Korean-adoptee friends and while both of our experiences are very different, there are a lot of complex feelings that overlap when we come to Korea and try to integrate back into Korean society.
THIS!!! This is exactly what I’ve been trying to explain to people on why I get so mad when they say ‘well you don’t look ‘insert race’! It’s so disrespectful and frustrating; not to mention ignorant. Just because you don’t look like something, doesn’t mean you aren’t. It completely undermines your whole identity, and mentally really messes you up.
Great topic Korean Adoptees the experience is a little different with mixed Korean Adoptees than someone with 2 Korean parents biologically. Stay positive I have heard so many stories
Great discussion. I wonder if this perception of mixed Koreans will fade over time.
My daughter is half Korean, half Jamaican ethnically. Citizenship wise, she's Korean and British (yes I know I need to get a move on with her Jamaican citizenship)....
However if she were to visit Jamaican and explore her paternal heritage, nobody would question if she's Jamaican as there are hundreds of years of mixing backing her up.
On the flip side in Korea based on your experiences i'm sure she'd feel aware of the social perception of her, at least until everyone is seeing her through Beckie's eyes and picking up "ah yeah, definitely mixed Korean!"... In this sense once society is more a-tuned with obvious mixed features the perception will fade....
Wishful thinking?
By the way even in London she sees Koreans as looking like mum. If there's ever a mixed Korean, they are half white so she may already be becoming aware of the perception internally.
Your daughter will never be considered Korean by Koreans
I am half Chinese and half white. I live in the US in the SF bay area. I feel all of this. I am lucky to have grown up around other bi-racial people, but in the end I always felt I was never enough for either side. And I remember checking ethnicity boxes in school and always checking "other". It wasn't until I got older there was a bi-racial group who called themselves Hapa where I found a solid support system. I felt like I finally belonged with this group although we were all different mixes.
Italian Asian looking here ✌️
I'm also part Italian (1/4 and American)
Becky, Cedrick, why did I discover this video just now? Excellent job, thank you!
For me it was the case that I was always the “Korean kid” growing up. I did look much more Korean before puberty than I do now though. “Little Korean” was sort of my nick name. (I also was very small as a kid😂). But it never bothered me because I owned it and it didn’t make me feel excluded. I had very positive associations with Korea. I knew who I am and grew up without identity issues.
Ironically coming to Korea meant that this “being Korean” that I had proudly owned was taken away. Even with a secure identity it took a toll on me being confronted with it on a daily basis. Explaining that my mom is Korean often doesn’t make a difference as you pointed out in the video. “But that doesn’t make you Korean!” I have worked hard to accept this as it is and not be affected by it in my own identity but in the end I think I have to accept that Korea is an integral part of me but I am not going to be a part of Korea. It’s getting better but I will probably need more time to make my own peace with this. The irony is, I get a lot of privileges because I am considered a white foreigner, which is wrong and I feel like I have to be careful talking out because I profit (for the wrong reason). Not an easy topic!
I'm not half Korean, or Korean, but this conversation was very interesting and both of you are very articulate!
This topic also made me think about Vernon from Seventeen. He's half Korean and said some times that a lot of people think that he's not Korean because "he don't look Korean". He was born in NY but moved to Korea with 4 years so he said that he's more comfortable with Korean culture, even said that his Korean is better that his English but people still look surprise when he speaks Korean.
I really enjoyed this conversation and how it resonates with me personally as I’ve shared before. I think it’s so interesting that in the experience of half Koreans living in Korea, there are people who get the say through their assumption of whether or not you’re Korean. I can’t help but here the internalized message “not good enough”. I think it’s so brave and potentially healing in half Koreans feeling more connected to their Korean culture however that looks and wanting to explore that in Korea. It has me wonder for people who make those assumptions, what’s the harm in someone being associated with being Korean and not “looking like” you? What’s the fear of including them? Can you pause and ask yourself why you have that reaction towards half Koreans who don’t “present like you”?
Overall lots of important points and also has me think of so many questions! Great video 😊
Hi, are there any examples exactly of people saying you are not "Korean", "Korean enough", "good enough" etc? Do comments like that only happen from people outside of your mix? Like will Korean people actually come out with such comments? Or would it be Blacks, Whites etc?
I guess this is also directed to The Halfie Project please if you read this....
@@nathanielmills4678 I know I can only speak for myself and my experiences growing up. It would never be outward “you aren’t Korean or aren’t Korean enough”. More like when people say “you don’t look Korean” or “how are you Korean?” “Is that your real dad?” Etc. I think this can be applied to different populations, especially those who are mixed. I have clients who were born in their country and moved to the US, and also feel their not __ enough and for some of them, people back home in their country have outwardly told them that. I share this to say that it can happen to anyone when someone makes an assumption based on physical appearance. I think it’s important to note that we all perceive these messages differently and how we internalize them is unique to each of us. Someone can say a comment like that to you and you might not think anything of it, whereas someone can say that to me and it may sting a little.
I feel the sting as I look more of one ethnicity in my mix than my parents. My mother is Mexican (native) and white (American), and dad is Colombian (mestizo). I came out with lighter features and I have felt I had to prove my ethnic background on so many occasion in school (US), or asked if I’m adopted and what not. While others saying/questioning my background may mean nothing to them, internally it does sometimes hurt to hear those remarks. My daughter is mixed as well (father is Chinese), and I already see people on both sides picking her features. Which bothers me and do not want that to affect how she views herself.
@@alisha1377 thank you for sharing that. I can understand in that feeling of needing to feel like you have to prove yourself and depending on your physical features, it can create a sense of uncertainty, confusion, and even for some dislike towards self. I think it's great that you recognize that sting and the self-healing part i imagine is being able to affirm yourself that you are enough and are all your ethnicities however much you want to identify with. I believe NO ONE can tell you what you are, even though they might. I think we can hold true to ourselves in knowing we're enough and appreciating the blend we're able to have and/or represent, and model that for others who are multiracial.
When you mix blue and yellow, you don't get half blue and half yellow or "mixed"... you get GREEN!
I'm half korean, half irish and I spent most of my life thinking I'm korean. The reality which may be hard to bear, depending on your situation is that mixed people are their own race. They are WHOLE people and a SINGULAR energy and being! At least for me as a man, I can't juggle multiple identities.. the truth leads to more realizations that it's basically like I'm a new tribe of human that I have to discover myself and also introduce to every person I meet. Because while singular races have many examples of art, food, culture that reflect them, that has not been created for people like me.
This was a very interesting conversation to listen to and it really broadened my awareness of the struggles that other people face concerning their race, culture and identity in circumstances that are different to my own. I am a South African "coloured" which is supposed to be my race but it actually is not, because I am mixed race. At this present time, I don't even know what my ancestral heritage is- this has been frustrating and at times isolating, I have also felt lost not knowing. But South Africa's coloured population is large and I can at least say "I am coloured" and no-one will argue with me or say no, you're not. I want to sincerely empathise with the Halfie community, with all the personal pain and hardship that comes from being mixed. I also want to CELEBRATE the beauty of being mixed that far outweighs the perceived "negatives"- there are none. Where parts of the rest of society has written a particular narrative for us, we have one that they will never know anything about- and it is filled with so much beauty. I hope that what I have shared makes sense- YOU INSPIRE ME TO BE ME.
Hello~ I am so glad you guys are having these conversations, highlighting our unique mixed culture! I have been living in Korea for 6 months now as a halfie. I visited many times over my lifetime, but it wasn't until my mother passed away that I really felt free to live here full time. Also, I felt that I reached a point in my life where I would no longer be overwhelmed by the Korean culture demanding me to act a certain way to gain acceptance. I know who I am now. I don't need anyone to accept me... That being said, I was referred to a Korean pre-school for a job interview where I would be teaching 3 year olds (4 year olds as they still say here). Going into the interview, I wasn't very invested in getting the job, but I was curious to see how quickly they would break all the rules Americans have about not asking my age, marital status, etc... It turned out, their main concern was that I wasn't a "real native American" (let's not get me started here on how this interviewer was misusing the term native American!) but a gyopo. She said, "You are an American-Korean."
After all my years of being called white in Korea and Asian in America, where growing up I was deprived of my Korean community, it was really disheartening to hear that I was automatically disqualified from a job teaching 3 year olds in my first language, English! Especially because I have a masters degree in speech-language pathology and years of experience focusing on this particular age group in America. The entire situation was absurd.
Let me emphasize the absurdity, I messaged this woman and within 10 minutes, she replied asking me to interview the same day. I accommodated her request, and yet- it took two weeks before they made a final decision to tell me they hired someone else.
Well, yeah, my experience here as a Korean-American halfie is to not need anyone's approval or validation. The people who matter consider me part of the "우리", and those who don't- don't matter to me.
My mom is from Korea and immigrated from Korea in 1981. My father's side is Sicilian, Greek, Irish, and Scottish. I don’t "look" Korean. Most Koreans think I'm Latina lol.
I'm here for my half Korean son I hope he will be able to figure out how to be ok with who he is
I'm 100% Chinese, born in the US.
I look Chinese.
My closest friends are half-Chinese.
Many Asian Americans thought I was too Asian growing up, and white people often think I'm too Asian.
Really interesting discussion guys. As a half Korean half Polish born in Sweden, I am very surprised about the negativity you guys have faced where people questioning your heritage. I have never ever experienced that, neither from Swedes, Poles nor Koreans. The reactions I have gotten are always positive. So I'm curious, is this something perhaps more common in America? And is it Americans or Koreans that are saying these things?
Good point
To me, I didn’t face it that much in the US (granted I lived in a very diverse area) but I experienced it like 100x more when I lived in Korea most likely because it is so homogeneous and blood purity value is still a tradition that certain ppl follow. I had my identity questioned constantly and people would always call me a foreigner and never believed me when I said I was (half) Korean
Are you a white -passing halfie? That might explain why you didn't have any issues in Sweden.
Excellent conversation. Thank you.
보다보니 할말이 생겼네요 . 듣기로는 미국에서도 한미혼혈형제 자매조차도 전형적인 백인모습에 가까울수록 미국사회에 더 잘 적응하고 잘 받아들여지고 본인의 만족도도 높다고 들었고 한국인의 외모에 가까울수록 미국에서 차별의 경험이 많아서 방황하고 한국을 더 찾게되는경우가 많다고 들었습니다. 이것만봐도 미국도 차별이 존재하고 백인우월주의가 심각하다는걸 알고있고 심지어는 그걸 백인주류에게 항의조차 하지못하고있다는걸 느끼는데 그건 본인의 자신감부족아닌가요? 되려 외국인에게 호의적인 한국에와서 더 드러내고 표현하는게 좀 웃긴다는 생각도 듭니다.
한국인을 이해하려면 그저 태어나보니 한국인이라서 어쩔수없이 받아들이는 장단점 내지는 선함과 악함까지도 서로 암묵적으로 인정하는 내면세계와 단일민족이라는 끈이 존재합니다.
그뿌리되는 사건중 하나가 임진왜란등이래로 단일혈족이 외계세계로부터 침략당하는 아픔의 경험이 대를이이서 내재화된것 입니다. 우리끼리 똘똘뭉쳐야만 살아남을수 있다는 뜻입니다.
무조건 같은사람 같은 반응을 보이라고 강요만하지말고 한국민의 기원 아픔등을 공부해보세요. 진정한 관계는 그사람의 아픔을 이해할때 시작된다고 생각합니다.
여건만 된다면 님을 만나서 대화를 해보고 싶습니다. 해줄말들이 아주많습니다.
Solidarity!!
The way Becky said "I saw you from across the room~" was so cute. Great points all around!
Thinking that maybe Corea have been quite a closed society during long time. I am European, we tend to look, he must be Italian, she must be french for example. We tent to want to know from where people are, and then relax. Here you go 500 km and change a little bit looks, traditions and language. To be rude to speak over somebody's head that is something very different if you ask me. Interesting topic you discuss.good luck
I don't think you can clearly identify that someone is full Japanese or full Chinese. Even people from Japan and China may not be able to tell because a lot of East Asians share similar facial features. Same goes for Koreans. You may not know until you hear the person speak. Also, countries like Korea are still highly racially homogenous, so if someone looks like a foreigner, it's a normal reaction to think they may not speak the language or understand the cultural nuances. It's not the fault of the locals because of their limited exposure and experience to those outside their bubble.
I’m half Korean and half Afro Puerto Rican and I don’t give a damn what anyone classifies me as. I KNOW what I am and I’m proud. I love both my cultures. I’m both. And if Koreans don’t like it, they can shut up and get out of my way. We focus too much trying to place people into categories. If Koreans don’t claim me as one of them that’s fine. Then they shouldn’t have had our American military fight for them during the war. Our military is still there. Many of us were born during that war. Yet you insult mixed Koreans. While you were saved by their fathers who fought for your country. Many of them died. Insane.
I went back to Korea twice in my life. Most people were very civil but many weren’t. They need to learn their history and how they got to be a free country.
You act as if you fought in the war. Koreans don't owe you (non-Korean) a damn thing
당신의 어머니는 미군에게 몸을파는 여성이었습니다
I have an ethnically Korean mom who was an adoptee with no communication whatsoever with her Korean roots. Meanwhile I have an American father who who has a pretty Dutch background. I never know what to call myself! And I am still struggling with feeling validated for whatever I am. I know I'm half-Korean but more than not, I don't feel it because I don't have any of that Korean culture, plus when I see others who are half-Korean, I can't get out of my head that I don't look Korean enough compared to them. Am I Korean American or am I half-Korean? What do I tell people when they ask? I never know...
You're both it's that simple
An adoptee was still born in Korea!so that is a big difference to you people. That person is still more Korean than you two. Obvious isn’t it??? There is no Korean-American/ Korean- whatever. Either you are Korean or not. Period.
So Korean is a genetic condition? There is no "pure" Korean genetically speaking. A person who happens to look like you but completely ignorant of the culture and history is more Korean than someone who was raised by a Korean or has lived a large portion of their life in Korea? This is some eugenic ideas that haven't planned out too well in the past
@@UnicornsPoopRainbows Plenty of pure 100% Korean DNA test results. Stop saying dumb shit just because you're mixed
i’m literally 75% korean, but the funny thing is i get called chinese by non koreans and i get called like philipino or mexican by koreans 😭
Extremely welcome to see and hear this conversation, and also cathartic to listen to. I'm a halfie who is chewing on this issue all the time living here in the US, and there are so many facets to it it's easy to lose track of yourself. Thanks for this video.
lol for the girl i can easily guess she half korean, but for the guy my first guess would be filipino lol.
I gotta share this video with a few of my cousins. They are my oldest cousin's children. And yes, they are biracial: mom is Korean-American and African-American. In my opinion, I say that they were lucky to have been born in our family. Because their biracial and multi-ethnic identities didn't bother us. We didn't have this "choose a side" nonsense. Plus, we also protected them and came to their defense, when they did come across some bigotry.
My mom never looked Korean. She was from Wonsan N.Korea. When she walked into a roomful of Koreans she'd surprise them when she spoke Korean. They'd exclaim "you don't look Korean". Years later I rented a Mongolian movie and there was something familiar about the actors. I realized they looked like my mom. I guess my mom expressed her Mongolian genes more than the average Korean and I'm sure there's a lot of Mongolian DNA in many Koreans whether they want to admit or not. I'm fully Korean. My dad was from Damyang. I never looked fully Korean. Non Asians assigned me with a fully Asian profile growing up in the US but the Koreans treated me a little differently until they realized who my mom was. I guess they assumed my dad was an American GI. Whatever. I married a Mexican American and 2 of my kids look Filipino but one kid looks more Korean than me. He actually takes after my dad.
Very interesting channel!
If you speak Korean. Trust me. 99.9% accept you as Korean. Being Korean is tough. Even for Koreans.
I respectfully disagree. I speak Korean as my native language, always have so I don’t have a foreign accent or anything, and it hasn’t changed anything for Koreans. Instead it just made me into a “foreigner who happens to speak Korean” but still not recognizing my Korean side. Appearance and blood purity still trumps all, at least it has for all of the people I’ve encountered so far 🤷♀️ I’ve seen some people comment this online but no one actually following this mindset in real life. And just because life as a Korean is hard, it doesn’t excuse the heritage gatekeeping and micro/macro- aggressions that are consistently being dished out and still going on
@@blue3374 I'll be 100% honest here. Each generation has a different standard for 'Koreans'. Young generation will care about things like, _nationality/bred up in Korea/speak Korean/(in the case of men)military service ect_ . And most important thing to them is, *the identity and nationality* . However, there's only one unconditional standard for the older Koreans. It's *the bloodline* . Imagine someone whose parents are ethnically 100% Korean, _but was born and raised in the US, can't speak Korean, has only US citizenship, never been in Korea, and has no plans to come_ . That person is definitely not a 'Korean' to young Koreans, but to older generation, he is. On the other hand, a person _who was born and raised in Korea, acquired Korean citizenship, speaks only Korean, and have never left Korea_ will be a 'Korean' to the younger generation. But i can sure my friends, he/she will always be treated as a foreigner by older Koreans, forever.
@@lawkey14 한국인으로서 동의하기는 좀 힘드네요 가슴아프지만.. 젊은 세대들은 설명해주신 부분에 대해 분명 이전 세대보다 나은 면이 있겠지만, 그렇다고 그렇게까지 크게 인식이 다르진 않다고 생각해요 애초에 다양성 교육 자체가 아직 많이 부족합니다 또 민족개념 인종개념 국적개념에 대한 인식도, 아직까지 백인 한국인 흑인 한국인이 당연히 존재할수 있고 그런 분들에게 어떻게 대해야 실례가 아니다 라는 기본적인 것도 모르는 경우가 많다고 봐요..
@@lawkey14 젊은 세대지만 혼혈이 한국인이라고 생각하진 않음
🤣🤣🤣 Pure nonsense from someone that wishes he could be Korean so bad
It's very important please answer me! Would korean prefer half korean or full another nation's ethnicity such as full indonasian english or taiwanese ? Which one is discriminated less? Wich one is discriminated more?
A Korean would prefer a full blooded Korean
Being half korean growing up in the south of America means you’re not white but when you get older you’re not korean lol
If you have Korean passport and speak fluent Korean, you will be considered to be Korean no matter which race you look. Do you have Korean passport and speak fluent Korean?
My cousin is half & half. Also the girl I see at the supermarket has a white dad (former middle school teacher) and a Vietnamese mom. My cousins spouse says Americans don't see halfies as white and see Asian men to be weak and small. But maybe after the 90s things may have changed somewhat for those kids. Different to go to school in the 80s and graduate in 93 than 03. Even with increased raxial tensions amongst black and white millennial after 2011 I've seen each other say as long as there not the other so being Asian is ok. Being half cream 😋 & Mello yellow is actually better 💛 like banana split 😋 ..nullifies you from Italians and associates who don't care for the great grandma's Japanese side from 1950s japanese-italian business deals , bad a Bing bam boom haha 🤣
But u guys dont look
Mixed
😅
Sis u look uzubek tatar
And
Bro u look malagasy
No they look mixed because the Malagasy and central Asians are also mixed not pure mongoloid
True. I would never have thought the lady, was mixed. But that of course doesn't in any way question the realness of the topic and personal experiences being discussed.
I came to Korea and I stopped saying I am half Korean. Sadly, I don't want to be considered part of this culture anymore, even if half or my genes are. So it is actually relieving that people here don't see me as one
“Korean” genetics are more wonderfully varied than the homogenous stereotypes. Many “Koreans” are mixed and don’t even recognize their is a long history of intermixing from centuries of genetic diversity with a wide variety of peoples (predominantly within Asia until more recent times). Many people don’t seem to recognize how wide a variety of “Korean” people there are and have been genetically. There is a larger, more beautiful range of genetic phenotypes than what people hold in their minds. Especially outside of Seoul it becomes so apparent. There are so many more body types with varying amounts of melanin, height, musculature, hair types, and other physical traits that “break the mold.” Is this a confusion caused by “대한민국/Korean” nationality being conflated with genetics and ethnicity?Sometimes it is a bit concerning how those points are being wrapped up into the false idea of a “Korean race.” >< I’m curious about when and where this uniform, yet shifting, idea of what a Korean person looks like came from. Media? Emerging as an independent “nation” and establishing new definitions as global standards with nationalism emerged? Shifting beauty standards? It’s even more telling how that uniform standard of “Korean-ness” has changed over time. For instance males having beards and long hair was the ultimate mark of a “Korean” nobleman for many centuries. Only recently has that changed. Let’s not get started on how the standards for a 100% Korean female have changed… >< Keep representing~ ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿🙏
Its funny how when it benefits non-koreans, all of a sudden the korean genetic are "wonderfully varied." i thought we were a super homogenous country and all asians look the same? just keep the same energy. if youre half korean you're just half korean by blood. you'll never be korean. if you need to explain to a korean person that you're half then youre basically just not korean and thats okay.
@@jay-iy5zd Impressed by your concise summary of Korean Ethnic Nationalism. If you’re “Korean” by nationality, it is likely you’re pure “Korean” blood is actually mixed. Unless you have been terribly inbred. It’s funny when people chase blood purity ideals, even when well recorded history and genetic haploid groups confirm long-standing genetic mixing between China, Mongolia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, etc. If you feel stronger when you exclude others by claiming that you have “pure blood” despite a notably mixed history, that’s cute.
@@youngsahm03 these fellas made youtube videos themselves about their experiences being discriminated against for not being full korean. so whether you like it or not, koreans exclude mutts and won't accept them. so sorry to burst your bubble. but if you want to keep coping and say we're all mixed so half koreans are just as korean by virtue of us being mixed, thats cute.
@@jay-iy5zd Fun to see you exemplify and confirm the issue which is the subject of this video, again. Your expert bubble bursting continue to impress cutie!
@@youngsahm03 aww look at you thinking a halfie's problems mean much to me, thats adorable!
If you can get a passport or if you have the age and able to vote for president, then you are Korean
No. You can never be Korean unless you are full ethnic Korean
Going to be interesting if you two ever have kids being that your both half Korean.
Well, to be honest:
It’s a fact that you guys are just half Korean, so it’s logic that you are not real Korean!what’s the matter then? Your boyfriend is clearly not real Korean. So……? He doesn’t look Korean at all in my opinion.
I am half korean and half italian. my mom is korean and my dads italian and i was always said to look like my mom. my whole life has been the opposite
Based on your choices you are not Korean…
I have blue eyes and very white skin, but I identify as Black, therefore I am Black.
Who knows. Tomorrow I might identify as a toaster oven.
I'm curious how you guys feel since all this stuff around race is occurring in America and the globe. In the U.S. how you look racially is very important but not very acknowledged. I am much older than you (the speakers in the video). But I am half Korean. I've never been to Korea and don't speak Korean. I am a product of the post-war diaspora; my mother married an American soldier.
It’s not just the look…it is the kind of ship and mannerism which you clearly don’t have…based on your opinion of it you are not culturally Korean…
Interesting how people with both Korean parents and look like the stereotypical Korean at the same time are obsessed with Japanese, Chinese, American and European cultures. Like if they don't like half koreans or multiracial Koreans identifying as Korean, why don't they stop wearing t-shirts, jeans, vintage gowns, sweatpants, rompers, and etc. Why can't they wear hanbuk and wear cloth shoes and only use Korean terms and live in a wooden Korean house with no glass doors? Or why don't they stop using the internet because it was invented in the US? Or why can't they stop listening to kpop or use the guitar? Why dont most koreans listen to gugak and pansori only, using Korean instruments that don't come from China or Japan? LMAO Even some outsiders know Korea is so diverse. I don't think any Korean Supremacist would ever want to live a life without globalization.
how do u know gugak and pansori? we are definitely not supremacist. we are just not familiar with foreigners and mixed. this cant be changed until we see many foreigners in real life. imagine when american meet alien who claim half american.
Cope
What a dumb comment