couldn't have said it better myself. most of the people saying "it's not a big deal" are white asf or have never once had to deal with racism their entire lives. it's baffling to the point of being hilarious that the author wrote a seemingly black kid being racially insensitive to a korean kid and thought "hmm, yes! this is very reminiscent of the real world!!" when korean people themselves (and Asians in general, actually) are some of the vilest people ever when it comes to skin colour.
east asians DO experience racism, especially when they're in a European country, that's undeniable. but no person with common sense would incorporate a storyline where an immigrant POC commits racially motivated bullying against a korean, IN KOREA?? i'm genuinely baffled how they thought that wouldn't look bad to anyone with more than two braincells to rub together. idc what anyone else replies to me with, you can only say "this is fine and you're overreacting" if you're a privileged bitch.
Hum I get what you mean. But actually, I liked the first version of Daniel's first case, because racism against "Asian people" is a real pain in the ass, and it is taken reaaaally lightly.
Even if the discrimination against "black people" is terrible and dreadful, at least it is taken seriously around the world! We sure have a loooong way to go but the "black life matters" show us the world is listening. This is not the case for "Asian people", the discrimination against them in occidental countries is barely a joke for all the other communities. And maybe it's time for all of us to listen to their suffering.
Back to "Get schooled": I'm pretty sure that the message would have been received way better if the authors had started with a story about Korean bullying a black student (and get what they deserved), and ONLY THEN tried to explore the story of Korean being bullied by black students ( and get what they deserved too). This way, we could understand better why people from one "minority" can suffer enough to bully people from an other "minority".
Even if "Get schooled" is sometime controversial, I like the way they try to make us reflect on the educational system challenges. I just want to stay opened and listen to what others people say about the world they see.
(And sorry if my English is bad XD I'm not native)
I totally agree with you. I'm a Chinese girl living in Spain and the racism I had and have to face is treated as jokes. Europeans don't see their comments or actions as racist, just as jokes, but don't you dare make a joke about them because you are being racist.
Racism isn't any kind of competition. With that being said, the reason why everyone is more vocal about racism against black people is because of how much more racism against black is relevant in the West specially in America. I mean there was literally a movement about black lives matter because how a black man got hate crimed and murdered by the police itself when they're supposed to protect the law.
The number of Asians is also smaller compared to Black people. Also the racism against Asians weren’t as bad before 2020 but now more and more Asian people are speaking up about it.
The story improvement you are referring to would be okay if the setting of this webtoon was any place beside Korea like USA or Europe (but then it wouldn’t work because school bullying is not a relevant problem in those places). But in Korea, Koreans aren't minority in any way so the story would still come of as racially motivated. The premise of this webtoon is nice but it just so happens that the author is racist. It would be better if the author was a better person
Your english is just fine but I don’t think you understood any of what I said. The author is absolutely racist towards black people. Not only do they live in a very homogeneous country but barely have any interactions with black people. There are barely any black immigrants. It’s mostly other Asian immigrants. The “racism” plot could work in the United States but not in South Korea.
The only people do the bullying is the Koreans towards other Asian ethnic groups or non white groups they deem inferior. So the author went out of his way to include a group of people he hates but barely knows, while completely overlooking his own people strong bigotry.
I immediately knew by the way the half Korean/white was drawn versus the Half Korean/black.
Yep but this is the norm for some of them.
Thats what the author should have incorporated into his work, but obviously falsely made it seem like darker skinner individuals are the bad guys when in actuality the lighter skinned one are horrible
That's what I'm talking about. All the pain you suffer shouldn't be a joke or a light subject in TV news, regardless of your minority. A thing that "Black lives matter" taught us is, you should not stay silent. One day, there will be enough voices with yours, to be listened to.
The Asian immigration in the West is clearly younger indeed, even if that goes back to the 19e century and it may be one of the many reasons that can explain the way that kind of racism is seen by others communities.
Nothing is simple, we should all try to simply listen, regardless of the one who's suffering.
I agree at some point. Korean culture has surely a xenophobic culture and it's not a surprise that Korean could paint racism like this. But maybe should we not accuse people of being "bad", just because they was conditioned to be scared of what they don't understand.
For what I've read, the authors apologies seemed were sincere
I agree at some point. Korean culture has surely a xenophobic culture and it's not a surprise that Korean could paint racism like this. But maybe should we not accuse people of being "bad", just because they was conditioned to be scared of what they don't understand.
For what I've read, the authors apologies seemed sincere, so I don't think they are "bad", although they surely must be more open-minded. We should let them learn from their mistakes, right?
Yes for that last point, I completely agree with you. Those physical differences were clearly caricatural.
But I don't think that's a reflect of their hatred, more the result of conditioning by the educational system (how ironic!) and by the media: white people are always smooth and classy in the advertising, films or whatever. That's not the case for black people, that's for sure.
But let's not reduce people to how the society made them. After reading their apologies, I just hope they will think about all this and become more open-minded and welcoming. But there is a loooong way to go before the Korean society change its paradigm. (I don't even know if it's correct in english XD)
No, unless you’re black you don’t decide or have any word in this situation. They were not sincere and they knew what they were doing. Please stop responding, because I have no interest any reading anymore nonsense
"Nothing is simple, we should all try to simply listen, regardless of the one who's suffering."
no. POC don't owe you anything. we're sick and tired of being understanding.
maybe im misunderstanding your comment but when your talking about POC you’re including Asian as well right?
One last message to say that I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. That was absolutely not my intention. I suffer too but I didn't mean to overlook your pain at all.
I am also an Asian who was raised in an extremely xenophobic and racist culture. At this day and age with the internet at the palm of your hand and the author being a content creator who makes contents on sensitive topics, being raised in a xenophobic culture isn’t a valid excuse. If I could grow up fine without being racist why couldn’t they?
That was not what I meant at all, I was trying to say that we all need to be more tolerant, especially people stuck in a xenophobic society. And you're absolutely right: nobody shall stay quiet in front of intolerance.
As my mother language is not English, maybe I misspoke somehow.
But just as a reminder, Asian people are POC too. As soon as they leave their native country and go to a West one, they suffer injustice and prejudice too. I just hope one day, people will be welcoming and warm enough to enjoy anyone company, wherever they are from.
I’m just fine, but you won’t see me telling another person from a different race on how or what to feel when faced with racism. I have no business telling them anything.
The international weeb community is full of the typical delusional racist anti-black bigots. That’s the norm. So the comments here and everywhere else make sense.
But what’s amusing is that the author used black people as his scape goats. When black people as a whole have nothing to do with South Korea. Most the immigrants that come to Korea are from within the Asian continent such as the Philippines, India, Indonesia, etc. And discrimination those people face in South Korea is far bigger.
And I know they rarely ever want to portray white foreigners in any negative light since Koreans have white fever and view them as gods.
So all of this is really hilarious if anything but nothing new honestly.