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I as soon as looked on YouTube‘how to look Korean’
And that’s so humiliating to compose.
Because not just does it negligence whatever concerning that I am as a brown individual, yet it fetishises a whole ethnic culture.
But when I was 14 years of ages, I really did not also quit to doubt it. I was merely performing research study on exactly how to be a ‘better version’ of myself.
In 2014, about when I was 13, I loved K-pop (Korean pop).
It was an interesting brand-new globe that drew me right into the midsts of a lengthy fight with my self-image, a battle I automatically incomed the minute I acquired my very first BB cream that was much too lightfor my skin

South Korea K-Pop band Red Velvet. Credit: SM Entertainment
An option to Western popular culture
For me, K-pop was …