Posts by Demon_owl
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Omg love his voice
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Nice but as the last why so long …
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Intrigued !
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I feel fandoms names never are what people guess/expect/obvious except maybe tokkies
Well let’s hope for the better
Whiskers is kinda cute
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The title makes me giggly
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My bad… here is a transcript of a speech given by the German Parliament on the Holocaust Memorial Day
“We commemorate the European Jews, the Sinti and Roma, the Slavic peoples, the forced laborers, the prisoners of war, and all those who were left to starve. We remember those who were persecuted and murdered for political reasons or religious beliefs. We honor those who courageously resisted the Nazi regime, who preserved their humanity and paid for it with their lives. We remember the suffering of homosexuals, people with disabilities, and the fate of those ostracized as "asocial."..”
https://www.bundestag.de/parla…eden/2021/20210127-818708
This is a list of people targeted by nationalists… this is from our ‘Federal Agency for Political Education‘ (Bundeszentrale Für Politische Bildung)… the same Groups as mentioned in the Holocaust Museum.
https://www.bpb.de/themen/poli…-des-nationalsozialismus/
I just picked english sites because of the language barrier.
You can say a lot about Germany, but not that they don’t acknowledged every victim affected by nationalism.
This was really interesting. Thanks for sharing
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Wow learnt two new words to day. What a time to be alive
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The primary reason this happens is unlike Europe, Japan has not meaningfully sought to reconcile it's past transgressions.
In Japan WW2 and earlier history doesn't show Japan as the bad one and makes light of not omitting entirely it's roles in the atrocities it committed. That plus the government for many decades refuses to properly apologize and continues to honor war crimes and keep distortions of history so they don't look bad.
If they were to reconcile like Germany did with the rest of the world, we wouldn't be in this situation today
This
And still on-going tensions eg the Dokdo dispute
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I am not allowed to talk about Korea because the mods don't like it. I don't know why but that;s what they think.
That aside, I think if China reopens its markets to Korean acts, the 'domestic' share for KPop acts will significantly decline.
The following idols had concerts in significant venues of Korea since the Chinese Prohibition of Korean acts to perform took place on early 2017:
H.O.T. reunion
BlackPink at Gochuck
Some fans for BTS probably came from China.
Some fans for BlackPink probably came from China.
H.O.T. fans were probably older Korean fans plus older Chinese fans.
Exo, Seventeen and the NCTs probably had Chinese majorities. Seventeen had a concert at Incheon soccer stadium, a place close to the Incheon International Airport, so the Chinese fans could do a quick turnaround without staying in Korea; no one kept any stats but I suspect more than half of the attendees were Chinese, since SVT is not that big in Korea. Same for its concert at the Seoul soccer stadium.
Only IU's concert would have been more than 90% Korean since at that time she had few foreign fans. Don't know about the upcoming one.
A lot of the massive sales of idol albums came from China, and as the Chinese trends had changed and mass buying declined there, the sales of KPop albums declined significantly all around except for Gidle and aespa whose declines were less severe, because they had Chinese members.
In other words, if the Chinese did not prohibit Kpop acts from operating in China, the Korean domestic market would have collapsed by now.
More than anything else, that skewed the figures for the Korean domestic market which is now mostly irrelevant.Again, IU's figures , which has few foreign buyers, is a good one - she sold about 380k copies, and assuming 1/3 of them were sold during her foreign concerts, since her first week sales was only 220k, and she had 2 versions, she actually sold to about 110k Korean fans.
That was the norm before the album explosion took place in late 2019.
As late as 2019 Twice's Feel Special sold 230,000 first week, and 420,000 for the year (More were sold in subsequent concerts so the total after 5 years is about 580,000, but).
So a lot of 'domestic' market is actually a stand in for Chinese market, and the Korean domestic market is much, much smaller than companies think.
Have to say it’s fascinating how after 4 years of being reported for
thinlyveiled racismxenophobia (apprently) you still completely lack insight why it’s wrong.That you now try to make a victim out of yourself for not being allowed to puke out xenophobic bullshit is just some sort of black comedy
Again since you never answered the last time - have you ever asked yourself WHY you spend so much time on something you obviously hate so much?
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Well it depends on the family itself a lot too! I just didn’t see often people drinking and smoking near me(be it my friends, family or relatives), so that made me to stay away from tobacco and alcohol
I kinda think it has to do with both family and your surroundings/culture .
If your from a non-drink culture, stable family and live in good neighborhood you’re not exposed
When I first moved to London I lived in one of the poorer parts where heavy drinking and drugs were rampant. You’d see kids as young as (I’d say) 10-11 smoke weed and drink until they passed out. According to Swedish friends in rural cities people start drinking moonshine at very you age (12-13)
I guess in some culture heavy drinking from a young age is just the norm. Which is why I’m fascinated by cultures where people don’t drink at all
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I want to say both have their own faults and toxicity, but I personally take bigger issue with the I-fans for being entitled, disrespectful, and ethnocentric.
K-netizens have a bad reputation because there are certain sources that choose to specifically highlight the most toxic, absurd comments. I think that's unfair. Plus, there are I-fans who are obviously envious about their faves being geographically and personally closer to Korean fans. This happens a whole lot. Many I-fans envy those who can attend concerts, meet idols, etc. They just don't like to admit it.
There's a wild phenomenon in which I-fans are racist towards South Korea or even the entirety of Asia while depicting their favorites as the exceptions, portraying them as victims of their society. Seems a lot like savior complex and colonialist mentality.
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Do all torch bearers have that much security?
So handsome, carrying the Olympic torch looks good on him
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Omfg I can’t belive I fell asleep I wanted to stay awake until Jins glorious run!
He looks so majestic!! The pride!
