The First Brazilian Female K-Pop Idol

what a queen

LEIAAA she's so pretty and I love watching her performf;kfj. Her expressions are my everything. So talented

So another Japanese girl in Kpop.

She’s so pretty and adorable! :3 I love her! She’s really fighting for the bias spot in my heart lol, which is currently occupied by fatou

Leia is rumored to be a former Pledis trainee.

Her Japanese sucks btw, she speaks pretty much no Japanese.

Quote from Ves

But she is Brazilian...

Brazil has a very big Japanese minority and as a result many mixed Japanese folk (among other mixes). I grew up in Miami and knew a lot of Brazilians - a significant minority were mixed. I don't find it odd to see mixed Japanese-Brazilian people. - they are as Brazilian as other Brazilians.

Brazil just like the USA and the majority of new world countries for that matter, is not a nation formed by a dominant ethnic group but a immigrant based population since the natives were pushed out by colonizers, unlike say most countries in europe and asia, so there is no such thing as ethnic Brazilian people like there is an ethnic German, unless you are talking about the small native american minority, so yes they are quite literally as Brazilians as other groups like Portuguese-Brazilians, Italian- Brazilians or the many other groups that immigrated to the country

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Leia is rumored to be a former Pledis trainee.

Her Japanese sucks btw, she speaks pretty much no Japanese.

I believe most japanese heritage people in Brazil don't speak much if any japanese at all, since most of the immigration was done more than half a decade ago, probably only the older generation have a high number of speakers, this is the smae situation in other places like Canada, USA, Peru etc

Quote from bartkun

Well yeah and the title of the post also might be missleading to some.

Overall some days ago I've posted in different section thread about mixed people in Japan. They've shared their stories and many said that currently it seems like people find "hafu" are trendy nowadays but also Japanese people tend to have very high expectations for mixed people in terms of looks. They created this image of super pretty mixed girls.

Another thing, I would like to add to this topic is in relation to this "hafu trend" thing, this is something that exists not only in Japan but in China and South Korea too and is a form of fetishization, that seems to happen to some women of those countries and not only creates false expectations of mixed people(almost always referring to white mixed by the way) appeareances but it is most probably coming from cultural and military imperialism and an inferiority complex that they have