[NB] Sam Okyere speaks out about Uijeongbu High's blackface parody

[Aryu]

I am not surprised at any of this. I'm so sad for Sam that he is being told to "go home". He puts so much effort into his life in Korea, then sees his race as a costume and gets blamed for speaking up.

 

Well of course the average Korean won't understand. But just wait until they go over to the US or the West in general and find out about yellow face and all that. Then, all of a sudden, another country they are not native to needs to "reflect". Yea ok sure, hypocrite.

[Aryu]

3 hours ago, reiichi said:

Black people take offense at blackface because of the discrimination they've faced and are still facing everywhere in the world.

East Asians on the other hand, weren't enslaved or colonized by white people (EDIT : or at least not to the same extent), so the same kind of ignorant display of racism will most likely will be met with condescendance. Not really the same sentiment.

Well...there were the Japanese concentration camps, Chinese exclusion act (the opposite but nonetheless a racial targeting and othering), the century of humiliation that another mentioned - I know it's stupid to compare oppressions and racism so I am not trying to do that, but Asians certainly have faced some dire situations for their race/nationality.

Yellowface and blackface actually have a lot of similarities. They aren't the same, but both are/were used to caricature, make fun of, other, and use as masks for White actors playing POC. Just look at the yellowface in Breakfast at Tiffany's:

It's just gross. It's not the same as the whole minstrel history, but you'd think Koreans would show a bit more understanding if they knew what went on in other places where they are the target....

But I guess we can assume that they just don't know better  (they sure knew about it when Gigi had her racist scandal where she imitated Asian eyes...)