Rosé
While Rosé has been making headlines constantly after her recent trip to the States, that
didn’t mean she would always get the respect and good treatment from everyone.
You know the basketball match that Rosé recently went to and was even arranged to sit courtside
and gifted a Derrick Rose jersey prior to the game, right?
While her presence was highly appreciated by the event and many fans also waited for
outside on the Madison Square Garden, which basically created a crazy scene on the spot,
there still was a man somehow looked at Rosé, loudly questioned who she was and referred
to her as “ling ling” - an alleged racist name used for Asians.
Immediately, the video drew lots of attention from people and as you can already guess,
this man was fiercely criticized by literally everyone. Under the video where this moment
was reposted, many came to tell how he was being plain racist and ignorant rather than
someone superior.
While it’s hard to tell what happened after that, others believed the man must have been
super embarrassed after radiating that pick-me vibe just to end up being a clown without
no one bothered to join that humiliating joke. The criticism toward this man actually started
way before the video got uploaded online because right on the spot, the lady walking pass already
gave him a death stare to signal how he would probably facepalm himself when looking back.
Surprisingly, that wasn’t the only time Rosé was humiliated when travelling abroad.
After her appearance at Met Gala 2021, her photo with the creative director of YSL, Athony,
was reposted by a Vietnamese rapper, MCK, but somehow, the rapper chose to use an image
of Rosé being photoshopped to stand next to a criminal that was currently staying behind
the bars and even joked that the two were dating.
As researched, this criminal had to serve 10 years 6 months in prison due to illegal
gambling, testing positive with heroines, deliberately inflicting injury and disrupting
public order.
Things got so complicated that shortly after that, the hashtag #apologizetorosé climbed
to the top trending in Vietnam’s Twitter and an international fanpage of BLACKPINK
with more than 1 million likes also spoke up and asked others to report MCK’s Instagram
account.
Jennie
After this incident about Rosé, Jennie was also humiliated by another Vietnamese rapper
called Wxrdie and this time, things even got worse as this man also made headlines of many
foreign outlets.
On November 4th, Jennie was seen having dinner with The Weeknd in Los Angeles. After the
photos of their greeting and hugging outside a restaurant was captured, attention was all
drawn to how Jennie’s circle has recently been full of super stars in the world.
However, things suddenly went off track when Wxrdie decided to comment under this picture
that The Weeknd would certainly make Jennie… weak in bed. Still, the story also quickly
cooled down after netizens found out that this comment was deleted real quick.
So, end of story here, right?
Surprisingly, that wasn’t it [chèn meme này]. Though many thought Wxrdie had learned
the lesson or at least foreseen the unfortunate future when messing with BLINKs, he later
posted a photo of him with the middle finger up, implying that he actually didn’t give
a shit. In the comment, he implicitly referred to the previous vulgar line by saying “so
weak” but later, the section was locked due to so much criticism. However, the anger
was still clearly seen through the overwhelming angry reactions and many reposts with criticizing
captions.
NCT
As SM Entertainment has been pushing NCT hard in the States for more global expansion, the
boys have been to this country a lot and apparently, that also meant the underwent lots of racial
discrimination here. This type of incident happened so much that on Pannative, there
was even a darn long post compiling all the moments NCT members were literally looked
down on when being in the States.
First was the one where Jisung went to a coffee shop in LA and was asked to go order some
drinks. The funniest thing was that the female staff there just flat out ignored his existence,
walked back and forth constantly despite having seen him struggling there and it just continued
like that for around ten minutes.
What’s even odder is that while Jisung clearly ordered an iced choco as it was hot like crazy
during that time in LA, the staff still gave him a hot choco and didn’t do common things
like greeting, saying goodbye or thanking Jisung.
The second one was in 2018 when Mark was complimented for his “good English” by the interviewer
though he actually grew up as a Canadian and even said he was from Vancouver. As if not
doing research about the guests wasn’t bad enough as an interviewer, she also triggered
NCTizens for stereotyping that all Asians couldn’t speak English well and when they
do, it was something to make compliments about.
Then in 2019 when NCT had another schedule in the States, a man was seen waiting for
them outside just to give a stuck up middle finger at Mark. The person who recorded the
video was also shook to witness that moment and later on, he shared that Mark was pretty
disappointed when seeing how some people welcomed him like that. Not only that, the person also
shared how people around kept asking if NCT 127 was BTS and after seeing how Mark politely
replied “Sorry, we are not BTS,” he was kinda triggered by the way people kept assuming
all Asian acts as BTS.
BTS
Ironically, even when many people in the West knew about the massive influences of BTS and
kept calling other acts with their name, the group was still the bull eye of some racial
jokes where some, including people on national TV, acted as if they would be superior by
doing that.
Last September, BTS delivered a message of hope to their fans during the 75th UN General
Assembly, Jon Henley - a writer for The Guardian, reposted on Twitter about their performance
and said “the end is nigh,” implying how BTS wasn’t competent enough to do anything
in the Western music industry.
While such a thing seemed like only some normal writers would do, somehow a senior editor
of The Economist,McElvoy, also joined the chat and tweeted “Please no” along with
her repost about BTS’ performance. Though McElvoy quickly deleted the tweet when she
was met with backlash, claiming that it was “taken the wrong way,” several media personalities
came to her defense, which echoed the disrespectful undertones of her original tweet.
Of course ARMYs and many people were triggered but that obviously didn’t help solve the
problem because the racial thread about BTS was still as long as an arm.
In 2017 when the group won the Top Social Artist title at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards,
some users on Twitter just flat out referred to them as “Asia’s One Direction”, “these
Asians with bowl cuts” and added that even when BTS won something in the States, that
didn’t mean people there would love them and made KPOP any less irrelevant.
As recently as May 2019, this type of people showed no hesitation to leave racist replies
under tweets by the Los Angeles Dodgers and ESPN which were giving a big shout out to
Suga for being there at the Dodger game. There, some called Suga a “crap”, said no Americans
would ever like BTS except for pre-teen girls and stereotyped him as “another rich Chinese
kid.”
Still, Suga was lucky as there were also many rational people there defending him. Actually,
it wasn’t a lucky thing because with a person like Suga, he probably just gave zero care
to such white supermarcists and rather spent time on more important things.
On other occasions where BTS wasn’t slammed with racial words, they would still be treated
like some inferior entities and used as audience-increasing props by Western media and well-known hosts.
For example, BTS’ 2017 BBMA win marked the beginning of the group being nominated for,
and appearing, performing at famous Western award shows. Though BTS deserved these nominations
and subsequent wins, they seemed like ploys for the program to secure a “BTS appearance”
and benefit from BTS’s huge fanbase.
So, do you think this type of disrespect would ever end regarding the rapidly growing influences
of KPOP to the world? Let me know your thoughts by commenting down below. Also, don’t forget
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