@chipotle69
Naina 🏳️‍🌈
@chipotle69 · 1:38

THE FETISHIZATION OF ASIAN CULTURE📈📉📈📉

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Even if you're not into Kpop or you're not into anime, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about because it's impossible for your Explore page or your for you page on Instagram, on TikTok or Twitter to not have recommended something about this topic to you. So what do you think about this? I would love to hear your views is so please do let me know. And yeah, as always, thank you so much for listening

I’m pretty conflicted about this?😞 What are your thoughts? #sayitonswell #culturalappropriation #kpop #anime

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@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:55
Hey there. I just wanted to join in and share my thoughts on this. While I'm not very much into Kpop or neither am I active on TikTok or Instagram. But we do agree with a lot of points that you raised the the fetishization of Asian culture been around for a while now. If you look at pop culture, for instance, movies, for that matter, you see a lot of stereotyping of Asian people, especially Asian women, their looks, their culture, their tradition
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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 4:49

@chipotle69 Every culture is being technically fetishized. The male and the female gaze has simply cast a wider net beyond the blonde archetype.

And I don't think that is happening. I think cultural appropriation definitely is happening and I would wish that people would display some form of sensitivity when it comes to that. But I don't think Asian culture is being fantasized. I think when people choose to express themselves as an Asian, right. And I get that. I get why that is a problematic phenomena. But look at it as a frontier of globalization. Right. A white person from England is pretending to be Korean or is expressed
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@xoxo_2004
Anshi Sharma
@xoxo_2004 · 1:21
Yay another Kpop fan finally. So I remember this incident so clearly because I was there in the fandom when this took place. I'm pretty old Kpop fan myself and I love anime too. Honestly, petitization, as you said, has become so normal that it's surprising. Like this kind of stuff should not be normal all of a sudden. To be honest, I think he has some issues
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@chipotle69
Naina 🏳️‍🌈
@chipotle69 · 1:34

@Ramya 🥰🥰✌️

So yeah, in terms of fatitization, not equaling appreciation, that is definitely very true. Quote of 2022, let's go and Kpop industry. Yes, it's very crazy what actually kind of happens behind the scenes, which we don't really know a lot about
@chipotle69
Naina 🏳️‍🌈
@chipotle69 · 3:24

@Binati_Sheth https://s.swell.life/ST8NlI4UEUvSkQh

Hi. Okay. So thank you for sharing your views. But have a lot to say. So the reason that this is an issue is because it is not not include just one or two people. I was nearly giving an example because everyone generally knows Ore London because of the stunts and things that he's done, I guess. So people in the west generally are getting plastic surgery and eye surgery specifically to look like Asians. We're seeing this as a trend among celebrities and influencers so many people
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@chipotle69
Naina 🏳️‍🌈
@chipotle69 · 1:24

@xoxo_2004 🤠✨

Apparently, I heard that he's not even like actually a Pts fan or anything. Like he literally did everything for Cloud, I guess so, yeah, it's pretty crazy. And yeah, the stereotyping of your people saying, oh, my God, you look like a Kpop item. That literally racist. I have seen this happening so much like in my life, in College, in uni everything. And yeah, it's definitely crazy
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@Binati_Sheth
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00

@chipotle69 i agree with you as well but what you’re describing is Xenophobia.

That is just globalization at work. Just like how Indians started wearing clothes from Gap and Zara. We are not fetishizing the West, Howie. We are simply consuming merchandise. That is exactly what is happening in the west as well. And this is where I will urge you to look up the specific aspects of tourism industries of all the Asian countries right now. Japan and Korea specifically have what I could insure as cool ministries. There's an arm of their Ministry in Japan
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