@dargoyaki Moral of the story, SEA netizens are the most creative roasters 🗿 #southeastasia #SEAblings #malaysiavskorea #kpop
The war in Twitter is so hot that I got cooked. 🔥
Obnoxious Korean girl brought in a Day 6 concert in Kuala Lumpur a big-ass camera, which is prohibited in concert venues everywhere. She got reprimanded but other Koreans online got on full racist mode.
Of course, we SEAsians bully each other like all siblings do but when an ousider hits our SEAbling, we forget our beef with each other, we assemble and attack the offender.
The Koreans said our women look like monkeys. Our SEAblings shot back, Korea is a sea of plastic — they’re so ugly that they hate how they look so everyone is doing plastic surgery. And one shot back by saying at least we have double eye lids. 🤣
But really, this Korean racism towards us darker Asians is ridiculous. They’re white passing. That’s why the Brazilians and the South Asians joined the rumble because they also receive a lot of hate for being dark.
One said that we SEAsians are poor, etc etc. A SEAbling shot back, at least our bridges aren’t for jumping…
Oooh that’s nasty.
But it’s true. They’re so miserable that they regularly jump off bridges and buildings. There’s too much pressure internally that they’d rather off themselves than face the high societal pressure that S. Koreans put upon themselves. They even go here in Philippines to off themselves.
I remember a corp comm friend told me that she was waiting for her driver to pick her up in one of the hotels in Poblacion in Makati when all of a sudden there was a huge splat of humans that fell from the sky in front of her. It turned out these were two Korean men who killed themselves by jumping off one of the hotel rooms above.
Anyway, back to the racist tirades by Koreans online vs SEAsians… A commenter pointed out that if it weren’t for SEA, Kpop and K-drama wouldn’t have taken off. We in SEA were the first ones who took notice of them and consumed their content as far back as 25 years ago. We had localized their dramas with our own dubbing or subtitling. Then we exported it to the west (via friends and family). I remember reading on one of the message boards in early 2000s about some Americans seeking info about a K-drama in our boards because they don’t know anything. We provided them with subs and titles of K-dramas and where to download. If they didn’t understand some context in the stories, we dished the explanations.
The first consumers of their pop/entertainment were SEAsians. Their first concerts outside of S. Korea were in this region. Japan and China couldn’t care less about them (that’s a different history lesson altogether).
So when some of the stupid Koreans said the East Asians (Japan and China) are gonna tag team with them, the SEAsians said, uh nah, they hate you. You are alone, even your true sibling (N. Korea) isn’t backing you up.
It’s true, even in the workplace. I remember one Indonesian complaining eternally about the Korean boss (an investor) being so overbearing and racist…I said, I have your full sympathy…
I don’t want to know if my editor thinks we look like monkeys and we’re dull and poor. I could only deduce by the way she treats me. 👀
And that’s one long ass rant from me on a Friday morning.