The one and only real reason why companies never apologize for Cultural Appropriation

    Cause they know I kpop stans will NEVER boycott their faves no matter what they do. Companies think of us as numbers and they know no matter what happens, not any kind of racism and CA scandal will affect their groups commercial performance.


    Korea is the complete opposite. Look at G-Idle for example, Hwaa was stable in the top 20 on Melon and right after Soojin got accused of being a bully, it started falling.


    Same with China and Japan. So it’s KINDA our fault that companies never apologize to us


    (Btw this has nothing to do with the other thread about Cultural Appropriation, it’s a coincidence)

    CA is a localised discourse. It's not widespread or viewed as a real problem everywhere in the world. Unless it's actual culture / identity theft, like for example that one time some Chinese people claimed kimichi belonged to them and it caused such a big controversy in korea.

    To be honest, I think that the whole 'cultural appropriation' is very much an American/Western kinda thing, something that wasn't even that big of a topic 5-10 years ago.


    If CA wasn't even really a thing for people in the US and other Western countries in the many decades before the (late) 2010s, why do they expect that people from African and Asian cultures and countries to blindly follow them in the latest social and cultural trends, especially when it's obvious that they, the US foremostly, have their own serious, big wrongs in their internal social and cultural wars?

    It feels very much like the saying 'don't judge others for the splinter in their eyes, while ignoring the wooden beam in your own eye'.


    It's almost like yet another example of cultural colonialism that Western people and countries have arrogantly enforced on the rest of the world for the past 5 centuries, where they expect everyone else, all other countries and cultures of the world, to adopt their typical American/Western moral values and allergies (while at the same time being completely oblivious and inconsiderate when it's about those other non-Western countries and cultures' social and moral values).

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